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Facilities for Postgraduate Research Students

We hope to make your candidature a successful and enjoyable one. For any information and problems, please ask:

School Postgraduate Administrator
Sue Stevenson (Room W1024, Tel: 9905 2991)

School Postgraduate Research Coordinator
Dr Michael Janover (Room W1009, Tel: 9905 2545).

School Deputy Postgraduate Research Coordinator
Dr Matt Tomlinson (Room W1111, Tel: 9905 8754)

Services and Facilities Provided by the University

Please see the Monash Research Graduate School web site for information about university-wide services and facilities for postgraduates. Also consult the Arts Research Graduate School website, especially if you are an MA candidate, as your candidature (with the exception of scholarship recipients) is handled at Faculty level. Another useful guide to Postgraduate facilities and services is available from the Monash Postgraduate Association.

Accommodation: Monash Research Graduate Centre: Office space and networked computers are available there. See the manager of the Centre via the Monash Research Graduate School. Arts Postgraduate Centre: Contact Katherine De Zilwa for assistance in obtaining space in the Menzies Building Katherine.DeZilwa@arts.monash.edu.au

Travel grants: Rolling applications for fieldwork and for conferences at which you are giving a paper. Only travel costs are met, and only within a set range (for further information see the forms which are downloadable from the Monash Research Graduate School Grants page

Services and Facilities Provided by the Faculty of Arts

Top-up grants to add to travel funding from the University travel grants. Apply at the same time as you apply for University travel grants.

Services and Facilities Provided by the School Of Political and Social Inquiry

1. Communications

Postgraduate pigeonholes are located in room W1113 in the Menzies building. They are in alphabetical order. Please check the letter of your family name regularly for any mail. If you are employed as a sessional tutor or research assistant you will normally receive a named mail box located on the 10th floor for the duration of your contact. See also the Graduate Noticeboard on the 10th floor next to Sue Stevenson's office.

2. Seminars

Different disciplines within the school hold regular seminars, as does the School as a whole. You are very welcome to attend them. There is an annual School Postgraduate Symposium, held in second semester, at which we expect you to give at least one presentation during the course of your candidature. Participation in such events helps you to understand what is involved in research.

3. School postgraduate publication prize

Every year a prize of $500 is awarded to the postgraduate student with the best refereed publication in the previous year. The awarding of this prize is a social event for postgraduates and staff in the first half of the year.Visit our postgraduate awards and prizes page

4. Accommodation

The School is not in a position to offer postgraduates office space at Clayton unless they are sessional tutors: there is simply not enough room available. There is some allocated space available at Caulfield if you prefer to work from there. See the Graduate Centre mentioned above under University.

5. Computers

There are seven networked computers available for student use in the School Postgraduate Room (W1113). A printer is connected to these computers and may be used free of charge within reason.

6. Photocopying

Students are eligible for a photocopy card per year, available from Jenny Williams in the School's General Office (W1017).

7. Equipment

You may need special equipment for your research. Some may be available for loan from the School: enquire through your supervisor. Some students require equipment for research which is not available from the School. A contribution to that equipment may be made by the School but in that case the equipment remains the property of the School. Apply through your supervisor to the Postgraduate Coordinator.

8. Training

Some students require training in certain skills not provided by the University. A contribution to that training may be made by the School. Apply through your supervisor to the Postgraduate Coordinator.

9. Conference costs

Students intending to attend a conference should first apply for travel funds from the University travel grant system, accompanied by a request for top-up funds from the Faculty. However, registration and accommodation are not met from those sources so students may apply to the School for a contribution to other documented expenses (original receipts will be needed to make claims). Apply through your supervisor to the Postgraduate Coordinator. Preference will be given to students who are presenting a paper.

Attendance by students at other conferences at which they do not give papers should not be ruled out if strongly supported by their supervisor as valuable for their research, but funding would be granted at a lower level.

9. Fieldwork Expenses

Students should apply for travel grants from the University and Faculty, but the School will entertain applications for other legitimate fieldwork expenses. To claim these expenses original receipts need to be produced. Apply through your supervisor to the Postgraduate Coordinator.

10. Editing

Students who need language assistance in writing their thesis may apply for funds from the school to pay for tutoring/editing. In that case the person providing language assistance must be approved, e.g. someone on the list of the Language and Learning Unit, and they must follow faculty rules for editing student work. Apply through your supervisor to the Postgraduate Coordinator.

11. Sessional Tutoring

Every semester limited amounts of sessional tutoring are available in the School. In the hiring of tutors, preference is given to the School's postgraduate students. If you are interested, make your interest known to the head of the relevant discipline towards the end of each semester, accompanied by your CV.

General Considerations

  1. All requests for funding should be made via your supervisor to the Postgraduate Coordinator who will consider them in consultation with the Deputy Coordinator.
  2. A record of all payments from the School's postgraduate fund will be kept by the School and will be checked whenever a new request is made to ensure that no one student receives an inequitable share of funds over the course of his or her candidature.

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