Staff Handbook: 2.3 Officers and Committees for 2011/12

Contents

0. Introduction

"Until" means until the end of the academic year which falls in the given calendar year (thus "Until 2012" would mean "until the end of the academic year 2011/12", taken here to end on 31 July). Office-holders, other than taught student representatives, remain in post until substitute appointments have been made or elections held.

According to 2.2 Management Structures §1: "Unless otherwise stated, the term of office for all elected or appointed officers and members of committees is three years, except for research staff and students where it is one year."

1. Officers

Post Name Until
Head of School Achim Jung 2012
Deputy Head(s) of School Jeremy Wyatt 2012
Head of Academic Programmes Manfred Kerber 2012
Head of Quality Assurance John Bullinaria 2012
Head of Student Development and Support Mark Lee 2012
Director of Undergraduate Studies Peter Tiño 2012
Director of Postgraduate Studies Alan Sexton 2013
Senior Tutor Manfred Kerber 2012
UG Programme Directors:
Intercalated Year Achim Jung, Jim Yandle 2012
MSc Programme Directors:
MSc Computer Science Jim Yandle 2012
MSc Computer Security Tom Chothia 2012
MSc Advanced Computer Science Bob Hendley 2012
MRes Natural Computation Xin Yao, Shan He 2012
Industrial Placements Tutor Mirco Musolesi and Behzad Bordbar 2012
Careers Tutor Rami Bahsoon 2014
Undergraduate Projects Officer Ela Claridge 2012
MSc Projects Officer Shan He 2014
Individual Study Andrew Howes 2014
Advanced MSc mini projects Bob Hendley 2012
SSC coordinator Hayo Thielecke (Term 1), Eike Ritter (Term 2) 2012
Examinations Officer Eike Ritter (papers & processing) 2012
Welfare Tutor Volker Sorge 2013
Deputy Welfare Tutors Nick Hawes,
Ata Kaban,
Iain Styles		 2012,
2013,
2013
International Students Tutor Ata Kaban 2013
Research Students Tutor Steve Vickers 2014
Exchanges Tutor Peter Tiño 2013
Head of Admissions Peter Hancox 2013
Admissions and Marketing Coordinator Jessica Ashe
Admissions Team Peter Hancox
Peter Breuer
John Bullinaria
Antoni Diller
Shan He
Andrew Howes
Uday Reddy
Hayo Thielecke
Jim Yandle		 2013
2013
2013
2013
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
Head of Marketing and Publicity Russell Beale 2013
Senior Marketing Officer Gurpreet Grewal-Kang
Marketing Team Russell Beale
Hamid Dehghani
Dan Ghica
Nick Hawes
Achim Jung
Iain Styles
Peter Tino
Jeremy Wyatt		 2013
2013
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
2014
International Recruitment Uday Reddy 2014
Director of Computing Facilities Steve Pillinger 2013
Chair of User Forum Dan Ghica 2014
Library Officer Antoni Diller 2013
Director of Research Xin Yao 2013
Deputy Director of Research Ela Claridge 2014
Research Ethics Officer Antoni Diller 2012
Other Officers
Departmental Seminar Coordinator Asimina Vasalou 2014
AINC Seminar Coordinator Leandro Minku 2013
Theory Seminar Coordinator Paul Levy 2012
Interaction Seminar Coordinator Chris Bowers 2014
Data Protection Officer, Freedom of Information Officer Alexandra Broekema ex off.
Returning Officer Alexandra Broekema ex off.
Health and Safety Coordinator Sarah Collins
Qualified First Aiders Keith Marlow
Sharon Powell
Mark Robbins
Fire Wardens Ceinwen Cushway
Bertram Dandy
Antoni Diller
Julie Heathcote
Bob Hendley
Eike Ritter

2. School Committee

The membership of the School Committee will be reviewed at a future School Committee meeting.

e-mail: school-comm (school-comm-open is the corresponding open list). For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Head of School (chair) Achim Jung ex off.
All staff in the School are entitled to attend and vote (including Teaching Staff, Research Staff, Support Staff and Academic-related Staff).
PA to the Head of School (Secretary) Sarah Collins ex off.
Four student members of the School's Staff/Student Consultative Committee: one first-year undergraduate, one second-year undergraduate, one third-year or fourth-year undergraduate, one MSc student. Chris Green
Jawad Hussain
Karen Templer
vacancy (MSc)		 All 2012
One research student member of the School's Staff/Research Student Consultative Committee. Catherine Harris 2012

3. Advisory Group

Head of School Achim Jung ex off.
PA to the Head of School Sarah Collins ex off.
Deputy Head(s) of School Jeremy Wyatt ex off.
Director of Research Xin Yao ex off.
Head of Academic Programmes Manfred Kerber ex off.
Director of Admissions Peter Hancox ex off.
Head of Student Development and Support Mark Lee ex off.
Operations Manager Alexandra Broekema ex off.
Two elected members of staff of the School Ela Claridge
Nick Hawes		 2014

4. Staffing Committee

e-mail: staffing-comm. For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Head of School (Chair) Achim Jung ex off.
All Professors in the School John Barnden
Russell Beale
Ela Claridge
Andrew Howes
Ales Leonardis
Jon Rowe
(Achim Jung)
Uday Reddy
Mark Ryan
Xin Yao		 ex off.
One other elected representative of the Non-Professorial Teaching Staff of the School (must be at Senior Lecturer, Reader, or Senior Research Fellow level, and on an open contract) John Bullinaria 2014
Co-options Aaron Sloman 2010

5. Research Committee

e-mail: research-comm. For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Head of School Achim Jung ex off.
Director of Research (Chair) Xin Yao ex off.
Chair of the Research Students Monitoring Group Steve Vickers ex off.
Research Students Admissions Tutor Hayo Thielecke ex off.
Director of Computing Facilities Steve Pillinger ex off.
Between four and eight other representatives of the research active members of Teaching Staff, nominated by the Teaching Staff and appointed by School Committee after consideration of suggestions from the Research Committee Rami Bahsoon
John Barnden
Russell Beale
Ela Claridge
Dan Ghica
Paul Levy
Peter Tino
Jeremy Wyatt
 2013
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2013
Two elected representative of the Research Staff in the School Peter Lewis
Rustam Stolkin		 2012
2012
One elected representative of the Research Students in the School Osama Al-Hassani 2012
Research Secretary Ceinwen Cushway

6. Research Students Monitoring Group

e-mail: rsmg-comm. For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Research Students Tutor Steve Vickers (chair) ex off.
Three or more other members of teaching staff, at least one of whom will be a professor, appointed by School Committee after consideration of suggestions from the Research Students Monitoring Group John Barnden
John Bullinaria
Ela Claridge
Richard Dearden
Antoni Diller
Martín Escardó
Peter Hancox
Mark Lee
Uday Reddy
Eike Ritter
Jon Rowe
Georgios Theodoropoulos
Peter Tiño
Xin Yao		 2009
2009
2009
2010
2010
2009
2010
2012
2009
2010
2010
2009
2009
2009
Secretary Patrycja Sliwa

7. Computing Facilities User Forum

e-mail: user-forum. For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Chair of User Forum
 Dan Ghica
 2014
The meetings are open to all members of staff and students with an interest in the matters discussed.

8. Staff/Student Consultative Committee

e-mail: staff-student-comm. For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Head of School Achim Jung ex off.
Head of Student Development & Support (chair) Mark Lee ex off.
Director of Undergraduate Studies Peter Tiño ex off.
Director of Postgraduate Studies Alan Sexton ex off.
One Computer Officer, nominated by the Director of Computing Facilities Steve Pillinger 2009
Teaching Assistant member of Teaching Committee Chris Novakovic ex off.
One student representative for each group opposite, elected by those students

vacancy (AICS1)

Elizabeth Felton (AICS2)

Jeremiah Via (AICS3)

Chris Green (CS1)

Jawad Hussain (CS2) (Co-Chair)

Karen Templer (CS3)

vacancy (HalfCS1)

Joshua Issac (HalfCS2)

Divyen Sanganee (HalfCS3)

vacancy (HalfCS4)

Oliver Smithson (SE1)

William McEnaney (SE2)

vacancy (SE3)

vacancy (SE4)

Jemma Thornton (CSBM1)

Mark Johnson (CSBM2)

Steve Dalai (CSBM3)

vacancy (ICY)

Iyere Oboite (MScCS)

vacancy (MScACS)

Somdutta Chakraborty (MScCSec)

Kate Reed (MRes NC)

 All
2012
Secretary Sue Tippin

9. Staff/Research Student Consultative Committee

e-mail: staff-research-student-comm. For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Head of School Achim Jung ex off.
Research Students Tutor (vice-chair) Steve Vickers ex off.
One Computer Officer, nominated by the Director of Computing Facilities Mark Robbins 2011
One research student representative elected by each of Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, and all other years combined Jay Young (Year 1)
Catherine Harris (Year 2 - chair)
Mark Rowan (Year 3)
Vivek Nallur (All other years)		 All
2012
MRes Natural Computation student representative on SSCC Kate Reed 2012
Research student representative on Research Committee Osama Al-Hassani 2012
Research student representative on Computing Facilities User Forum Christopher Staite 2012
Co-opted members if required Loretta Mancini (International students representative) 2012
Secretary Patrycja Sliwa

10. Teaching Committee

e-mail: teaching-comm (teaching-comm-open is the corresponding open list). For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Head of School Achim Jung ex off.
Head of Academic Programmes (Chair) Manfred Kerber ex off.
Head of Quality Assurance John Bullinaria ex off.
Director of Undergraduate Studies Peter Tiño ex off.
Director of Postgraduate Studies Alan Sexton ex off.
Head of Student Development & Support Mark Lee ex off.
Academic Administration Officer Laura Ewers ex off.
Four to eight other members of the Teaching Staff of the School, appointed by School Committee after consideration of suggestions from the Teaching Committee Russell Beale
Tom Chothia
Martín Escardó
Nick Hawes 		2013
2012
2013
2012
Three student members of the School's Staff/Student Consultative Committee: two undergraduates, one MSc student, elected by the student members of Staff/Student Consultative Committee. Elizabeth Felton (UG)
William McEnaney (UG)
Iyere Oboite (MSc)		 All 2012
One Teaching Assistant, elected by the Teaching Assistants. Chris Novakovic 2012
Secretary Laura Ewers

11. Quality Assurance Committee

e-mail: qae-comm. For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Head of School Achim Jung ex off.
Head of Quality Assurance (chair) John Bullinaria ex off.
Head of Academic Programmes Manfred Kerber ex off.
Head of Student Development and Support Mark Lee ex off.
Director of Undergraduate Studies Peter Tiño ex off.
Director of Postgraduate Studies Alan Sexton ex off.
Examinations Officer Eike Ritter ex off.
Academic Administration Officer Laura Ewers ex off.
At least three other members of Teaching Staff of the School appointed by School Committee after consideration of suggestions from the QAEC. Rami Bahsoon
Bob Hendley
Volker Sorge
Iain Styles		 2012
2013
2012
2013
Secretary Julie Heathcote

12. Accreditation Committee

e-mail: accredit-comm. For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Head of Quality Assurance (Chair) John Bullinaria ex off.
Head of Academic Programmes Manfred Kerber ex off.
Director of Undergraduate Studies Peter Tino ex off.
Academic Administration Officer Laura Ewers ex off.
Additional members Peter Coxhead (Consultant member)
Uday Reddy		 co-opted

13. External Liaison Committee

e-mail: external-liaison-comm. For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Head of School (Chair) Achim Jung ex off.
Head of Academic Programmes Manfred Kerber ex off.
Industrial Placements Tutor Mirco Musolesi, Behzad Bordbar ex off.
Business Development Manager Padma Reddy ex off.
Director of Research Xin Yao ex off.
Two other members of teaching staff appointed by School Committee after consideration of suggestions from the External Liaison Committee Mark Ryan
Rami Bahsoon		 2012
2012
Secretary Ceinwen Cushway

The External Liaison Committee forms part of the Industrial Advisory Board; see 2.2 Management Structures.

[Section 14 is obsolete.]

15. Student Recruitment Monitoring Group

The Student Recruitment Monitoring Group operates as an informal body to monitor and manage student recruitment. It is mainly operated by mailing list. Meetings will be called as necessary by the the Convenor, Peter Hancox.

e-mail: srmg-comm. (srmg-comm-open is the corresponding open list). For terms of reference, see 2.2 Management Structures.

Head of School
 Achim Jung
 ex off.
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
 William Edmondson
 ex off.
Postgraduate Admissions Tutor
 Peter Hancox
 ex off.
Student Recruitment Officer
 Russell Beale
 ex off.
Schools Liaison Officer
 Russell Beale
 ex off.
Student Recruitment and Marketing Officer
 Sally Cook
 ex off.
Admissions and Marketing Assistant
 Natasha Nelson
 ex off.

16. Learning Resources Committee

This committee has been dissolved.

17. Boards of Examiners

See 3.3.1 Assessment Procedures.

Undergraduate for Academic Year 2011/12 (normal meetings June and September 2012)


Chair (member of the Academic Management Team) Peter Tiño ex off.
External Examiners (final award boards only)

Head of School Achim Jung ex off.
Examinations Officer Eike Ritter ex off.
One member of the Welfare Team Volker Sorge ex off.
One member of the Extenuating Circumstances Panel (normally the Chair) Manfred Kerber ex off.
Undergraduate Project Coordinator Ela Claridge ex off.
Four representatives of Module Examiners, who may not serve in this capacity for more than one year consecutively Rami Bahsoon
Russell Beale
Dan Ghica
Andrew Howes		 All
2012

MSc for Academic Year 2011/12 (normal meetings June and October 2012)

Chair (member of the Academic Management Team) Alan Sexton ex off.
External Examiners (final award boards only)

Head of School Achim Jung ex off.
Examinations Officer Eike Ritter ex off.
MSc Projects Officer Shan He ex off.
One member of the Welfare Team Volker Sorge ex off.
One member of the Extenuating Circumstances Panel (normally the Chair) Manfred Kerber ex off.
Four representatives of Module Examiners, who may not serve in this capacity for more than one year consecutively Tom Chothia
Bob Hendley
Uday Reddy
Xin Yao		 All
Jan 2013

18. Extenuating Circumstances Panel

See 3.3.1 Assessment Procedures.

Extenuating Circumstances Panel for 2010/11

Senior Tutor (chair) Manfred Kerber ex off.
Extenuating Circumstances Officer Volker Sorge ex off.
One member of the corresponding Undergraduate and MSc Examination Boards to be present for discussions of undergraduates and MSc students respectively Rami Bahsoon (UG)
Tom Chothia (MSc)		 Jan 2013

19. Appeals Panel

See 3.3.1 Assessment Procedures.

Appeals Panel for 2011/12

Chair of the Extenuating Circumstances Panel (chair) Manfred Kerber ex off.
Chair of the relevant Examination Board (undergraduate or MSc) Peter Tiño, Alan Sexton ex off.
Examinations Officer Eike Ritter ex off.

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