Mairi Ross

Teaching Office: Programmes Administrator (Research Programmes)

Biography

Background

Details about our Postgraduate Research programmes (Mairi is Administrator for them):

Responsibilities & affiliations

Mairi studied BEd Primary Teaching at Moray House School of Education in Sport and completed a BA Education Studies in 2008 as the main topic rather than transferring from teacher training.

She has extensive experience supporting managers and teams in health, education, social work and community care sectors; encompassing office management, administrative, PA and supportive roles.

Mairi first worked at the University as a temporary administrator (Dick Vet and the College Office of Science and Engineering) before starting at Moray House School of Education and Sport in 2014 where she was the Programme Secretary for the MSc Education Pathways programme.

She then progressed to the Postgraduate Research programmes Administrator role in late 2017 and provides administrative support for all postgraduate research activities in the School and to the Director of Postgraduate Research and Deputy Director Postgraduate Research for the School, with particular responsibility for on-programme support.

 

Responsibilities

PGR Applications: Mairi works closely with the Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research and Thematic Hub PGR representatives on admissions processes, such as application screening and communication with College administration / PGR admissions team.  She also communicates with potential supervisors during application processing and advises applicants on admission-related enquiries.

PGR On-programme Support: she assists with the organisation of induction events, the School’s PGR student and supervisor support sessions and other PGR events and seminars.  She allocates research student desk spaces and monitors office allocation.  Mairi updates student records, student engagement and attendance monitoring and provides regular updates for PGR student and staff SharePoint sites.  She provides administrative support for Year 1 annual review progression panel meetings, annual student reviews, viva administration, School PGR supervisors and processes expenses for all PhD travel/conference/training funds and scholarship stipends.

  • Lead contact for all PGR Concession requests
  • Lead contact for all PGR Engagement monitoring
  • Lead contact for all PGR on-programme administration
  • Lead contact for all PGR Doctoral Scholarships and Awards
  • Secretary to the Board of Examiners for the EdD Programme

 

Committees/Groups

Mairi attends:

PGR student rep meetings, CAHSS PG Admissions Practitioners Forum and PGR Managers Forum meetings

Assists with the planning for the PhD Interweaving Conference

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