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School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies

W4PF Diploma in Theatre Consultancy (part-time)

MA in Theatre Consultancy (part-time)

TH 964: Performance Spaces: historical and contemporary developmentsTH 965: Theatre Auditoria, Sensory perception, Regulation and LegislationTH: 966: Venue Management: Programming, Infrastructure and Audience ExperienceTH 967: Diploma Dissertation

TH: 968: MA Dissertation

Course Director: Dr Margaret Shewring

(m.e.shewring@warwick.ac.uk)

Taught Postgraduate Diploma (part-time: 16 months)Taught MA (part-time: 24 months)Course Overview

The part-time Postgraduate Diploma and MA courses in Theatre Consultancy are the result of detailed discussions between the School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick and the Society for Theatre Consultants.

The purpose of the courses is to extend and enhance the continuing professional development of theatre consultants and of those who work in the construction of theatres or are involved in their operation in such roles as project managers, project champions, production managers and those who manage buildings for the performing arts. With emphasis on such topics as the history of theatre spaces, the physical perception both of performance and of the buildings in which performances are seen and heard, and the social, economic and legal frameworks in which such venues operate, the courses encourage candidates to assimilate accumulated experience in the wide field of work they undertake on a daily basis and to situate that work in a wider academic framework.

The courses extend students’ knowledge of the historical development of theatre space and of the social, cultural and legislative context of that development. They address the opportunities and limitations of different theatre spaces in relation to the repertoires presented (including opera and dance as well as plays, musicals and concerts) and the communities being served. They consider the construction of multi-purpose venues and other new builds as well as the conservation and conversion of listed buildings and ‘found spaces’. They also consider the recent boom in the development of performance spaces in academic institutions, particularly schools.

Those aspects of theatre building in which theatre consultants play a considerable part, including the process of liaison between the client, funding bodies, architects, local authorities and construction teams are studied in the context of the detailed use and design of appropriate spaces, the psychological and social understanding of design, health and safety issues and the need to take into account cutting edge developments in theatre technology (including light, sound, scenography and virtual reality). The course also provides sessions on regulation and legislation, including the requirements for the licensing of buildings for public entertainment. Some elements, including architectural and technical issues (planning and listing) and the technologies of lighting and sound, draw upon the experience of external practitioners. These elements draw on the professional skills of the Society of Theatre Consultants and the Association of British Theatre Technicians and conform to the guidelines and regulations set out in the Technical Standards for Places of Entertainment (produced on an annual basis as an essential guide and tool for theatre consultants).

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The course programmes include visits to performance venues as well as visits to performances in the Arts Centre, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and other Midlands Theatres.

The courses are taught across faculty and disciplinary boundaries, drawing on the strengths and expertise of a range of academic departments and of the Warwick Arts Centre, in the development of transferable skills.

The Diploma/MA is co-ordinated by the School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies. Convenor: Dr. Margaret Shewring.  The course consists of a series of core modules offered by: Theatre and Performance Studies The Digital Laboratory The Law School The Arts Centre

Staff contributing to the course include:

Katie Anderson (Director of Marketing, Warwick Arts Centre)

Matthew Burman (Head of Programmes and Audiences, Warwick Arts Centre)

Professor Alan Chalmers (Warwick Manufacturing Group and International Digital Laboratory)

Professor Jim Davis (Theatre and Performance Studies)

Alison Foden (Financial Director, Warwick Arts Centre)

Dr. Carlo Harvey (Warwick Manufacturing Group)

Professor Colin Manchester (Law)

Professor Ronnie Mulryne (Emeritus professor. Former Chair of the Drama Projects Committee of the Arts Council and of the Drama and Dance Advisory Committee of the British Council)

Richard Perkins (Library)

Howard Potts (Technical Director, Warwick Arts Centre)

Andrea Pulford (Director of Planning and Operations, Warwick Arts Centre)

Alan Rivett (Director of the Warwick Arts Centre)

Guest Seminars are given by members of the Society of Theatre Consultants, architects and theatre practitioners.

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 Following an Induction Day on the Friday prior to the start of the Autumn Term, the course is taught in intensive week-long modules, one in each of the first three terms. A fourth residential week is taken during the second part-time year. Much of the work is presented in seminar format following a keynote lecture to trigger debate amongst the course participants. The course encourages the participants to develop their verbal, presentational and IT skills and to make use of recent developments in visualisation and design software as well as to enhance their written skills in the context of an extended knowledge base.  Induction Day

Friday 2 October 2015

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Residential Week dates for 2015 - 2016

Autumn Term: 9-13 November 2015

Spring Term: 15-19 February 2016

Summer Term: 6-10 June 2016

AssessmentEach student is required to complete two assessed essays, a portfolio of case studies, a diploma dissertation and, if appropriate, an MA dissertation.

The Diploma is taught part-time over 1 academic year plus 1 further term (16 months).

The submission of a dissertation after a further 8 months will lead to an MA for appropriately qualified candidates whose research reaches an appropriate level.  

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Warwick Email 

The primary means by which the Department and the University communicates with students is by email. It is vital that you regularly check you university email address. Your university address is used to

Send supervision guidance

Alert you to changes to classes

Inform you of library fines

Inform you of departmental events and opportunities

For you to confirm your registration on the course and individual module registration

If you cannot remember your email address you can look it up herehttps://web.warwick.ac.uk/cgi-bin/secure/email.pl

If you need to setup your email for different devices please see herehttp://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/its/servicessupport/email

Our Departmental Administrator is Sarah Shute.

Ms Sarah ShuteAdministratorSchool of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy StudiesThe University of WarwickMillburn HouseMillburn Hill RoadCoventryCV4 7HS Sarah.Shute@warwick.ac.uk ph: +44 (0)24 765 73449

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Autumn Residential Week (year 1)Tutors: Dr. Margaret Shewring (Theatre Studies), Professor Jim Davis (Theatre Studies), Emeritus Professor Ronnie Mulryne (Renaissance Studies)

This module addresses the development of performance spaces, selecting examples from the Ancient Greeks to the present to offer an overview of principal historical and contemporary developments. Issues of theatre historiography are raised.

 Assessment for this module: one assessed essay of 5,000 words.

Spring Residential Week (year 1)Tutors: Professor Alan Chalmers and Dr Carlo Harvey (Digital Laboratory), Professor Colin Manchester (Law School) with Dr Margaret Shewring (Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies) 

This module extends the students’ understanding of the interior of performance venues. Approaches include an analysis of modes of sensory perception and their implications. It considers individual elements in the design of auditoria in terms of the ways in which these elements trigger multi-sensory responses through light, sound, smell and touch. The module also addresses regulation and legal issues that have a direct bearing on the construction and operation of performance venues.

Assessment for this module: one assessed essay of 5,000 words.

 

Summer Residential Week (year 1)

Tutors: Alan Rivett and staff from the Warwick Arts Centre with Dr Margaret Shewring (Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies)

This module provides experience of the different tasks that constitute the management of an arts complex including programming, marketing, audiences, the economics and infrastructure of an arts centre and staffing. It includes visits to other Midlands performance venues.

Assessment for this module will take the form of a portfolio of 5 x 800-word OR 4 x 1000-word pieces.

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Postgraduate Diploma Dissertation (year 2)

The Diploma dissertation marks the culmination of the taught, part-time Diploma course in Theatre Consultancy. It will build on skills and knowledge acquired during the course and will allow for a piece of written work on a topic of the candidate’s choice, decided in consultation with a supervisor (or supervisors).

The aim of the Diploma dissertation is to encourage the critical analysis of a topic arising from the first year’s work, from the taught components at the beginning of the second year or from material encountered in the individual student’s theatre practice. Ethical Research considerations will be observed at all times.

The taught elements will consist of seminars and presentations on future directions in the construction of performance venues. These seminars will take place during the same residential week as that attended by the new intake in the Autumn Term so that the two groups can have the benefit of working together and sharing their expertise.

Assessment: the Diploma dissertation should be of approximately 6,000 words and should include a full bibliography and appropriate research and/or case studies.

MA Dissertation (year 2)

The MA Dissertation module is the final module in the taught MA in Theatre Consultancy. In order to proceed to the MA dissertation, candidates will have to have fulfilled the requirements of the Diploma in Theatre Consultancy without formally accepting the award of the Diploma.

The MA Dissertation offers the opportunity for advanced research into a particular project enabling candidates to increase their knowledge base and to develop a range of research skills and methodologies under the guidance of a supervisor (or supervisors). Each student will enhance his/her ability to structure critical analyses, making use of detailed examples and case studies.

Assessment: the MA dissertation should be 18,000 – 20,000 words and should include a full bibliography and appropriate research and/or case studies.

 

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Diploma and MA in Theatre Consultancy: Preliminary Bibliography

Theatre Spaces

Baugh, Christopher, Theatre Performance and Technology: the development of scenography in the twentieth century (Houndmills, Basingstike and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

Burris-Mayer, Harold, Theatre and Auditoriums (Huntington, 1975)

Davis, Jim, Reflecting the Audience: London Theatregoing, 1840-1880 (Hatfield, Herts.: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2001)

Gould, John R. and Margaret Gould, Cities of Culture: staging international festivals and the urban agenda, 1851-2000 (Aldershot and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2005)

Hewison, Robert, Culture and Consensus (London: Methuen, 1995)

Izenour, George, Theatre Design (New York and London: McGraw-Hill, 1977)

Leacroft, Richard and Helen, Theatre and Playhouse: an illustrated survey of theatre building from Ancient Greece to the present day (London: Methuen, 1984)

Mackintosh, Iain, Architecture, Actor and Audience (London: Routledge, 1993)

Mulryne, Ronnie, and Margaret Shewring, eds, Making Space for Theatre (Mulryne and Shewring Ltd, 1995)

Mulryne, J. R. and Margaret Shewring, eds, The Cottesloe at the National (Stratford-upon-Avon: Mulryne and Shewring Ltd, 1997)

Mulryne, J. R. and Margaret Shewring, eds, Shakespeare’s Globe Rebuilt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997; reprinted 2009)

Pilbrow, Richard, Stage Lighting (Studio Vista, 1970)

Styan, J. L., ‘Guthrie and the open stage’, in The Shakespeare Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)

Todd, Andrew and Guy Lecat, The Open Circle: Peter Brook’s Theatre Environments (London: Faber and Faber, 2009)

Wilmore, David, ed., Frank Matchum & Co. (Theatreshire Books, 2009)

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Auditoria: sensory perception, regulation and legislation

G. Larson and R., Shakespeare, Rendering with Radiance: The Art and Science of Lighting Visualization (Morgan Kaufmann, 1998).

G. Calvert, C. Spence and B., The handbook of multisensory processes (MIT Press 2004).

Chalmers A.G., Howard D. and Moir C., ‘Real Virtuality: A step change from Virtual Reality’, in SCCG'09: Spring Conference on Computer Graphics, ACM SIGGRAPH Press, 2009, pp 15-22.

G Williams, Learning the Law, 12th ed (Sweet & Maxwell, 2006)

C Manchester and D Salter, Exploring the Law, 3rd ed (Sweet & Maxwell, 2006)

G Slapper and D Kelly, The English Legal System, 8th ed (Routledge-Cavendish, 2006)

C Manchester, S Poppleston and J Allen, Alcohol and Entertainment Licensing Law, 2nd ed (Routledge-Cavendish, 2008)

P Kolvin, Licensed Premises: Law and Practice (Tolley, 2004)

Paterson’s Licensing Acts, 117th ed (Lexis-Nexis Butterworths, 2009)

Venue Management

Barron, Michael, Auditorium Accoustics and Architectural Design (E & FN Spon, 1993)

Billington, Michael, The State of the Nation (London: Faber and Faber, 2008)

Graves, James Bau, Cultural Democracy: the arts, community and the public purpose (University of Illinois Press, 2005)

Kotler, P., J. Saunders and G. Armstrong, Principles of Marketing, European Edition (Prentice Hall, 2004)

Hill, Liz et al, Creative Arts Marketing, second edition (Oxford: Butterworth- Heinemann, 2003)

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Diploma/MA in Theatre Consultancy

A Guide to the Appropriate Presentation of Written Work.

This guide is designed to outline, as clearly as possible, both the appropriate ways to include references and quotations in your work and the correct ways in which to indicate your source(s) for those references and quotations.

It also highlights some of the most usual mistakes in assessed work and indicates the correct presentation.

The School of Theatre and Performance Studies has agreed that the appropriate way to cite references in your work is that set out by the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA). Their full guide is available on line by inserting MHRA Style Guide. It is also available in hard copy from the University Bookshop (reference section) as MHRA Style Guide.

The Guide includes chapters on appropriate spelling and referencing techniques as well as details on proof-reading for publication. The most important sections for you are chapters 8 (on quotations), 9 (on footnotes and endnotes) and 10 (on references).

In each of these chapters you will find clear basic instructions plus numerous examples covering a wide range of potential citations.

What is offered below is a summary of the basic ground rules. If you learn these in your First Year you will find that the required details become ‘second nature’ as your assessed work progresses.

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Crucial points

What is crucial is that you present your argument – and document it – in a way that will give readers confidence. [If you cannot do this work accurately, then it is unlikely that your readers will have confidence in the accuracy of your arguments and the clarity of your thinking/analysis.]

The information below is intended as a selective guide to the appropriate presentation for assessed work. It is not fully comprehensive – but it does highlight those errors that have, over many years, undermined the credibility and accuracy of student assessed work.

If you would not find it easy to read and fully understand your own work, then you need to look again at these basic guidelines – and at the fully articulated guidelines on the MHRA site.

Once you have mastered the basic rules of style and referencing you will find that the presentation of your assessed work does full justice to the individuality and subtlety of your arguments.

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Check your spelling. Do not change tense mid-sentence. Take time to make sure that you know how to use an apostrophe correctly to

indicate the possessive. Please DO NOT EVER use ‘it’s’ to indicate a possessive form. It’s == it is. Take care when you use an‘s’ to indicate a decade. E.g. ‘in the 1960s’ but ‘a

famous 1960’s group. Number your pages. Above all: say what you want to say as clearly and concisely as possible.

Style Guide

a) Footnotes/Endnotes

It is important to indicate the source(s) for your work.

This may take the form of a footnote indicating the book(s) in which you found the information on which your discussion depends and/or a detailed citation for each quotation.

You can include this information in numbered footnotes (that is: notes at the foot of the page to which the source material is relevant) or in endnotes (that is: in numbered notes at the end of your work and preceding your bibliography.

Such notes can be inserted by using the ‘Insert’ tab at the top of the screen.

Click on ‘Insert’ and then click on the ‘drop-down menu’ for ‘references’.

Under the section labelled ‘references’, click on ‘footnotes’ or ‘endnotes’.

The next choice offered will be whether you want the note at the foot of the page or as an endnote and it will ask about the format (font) for the numbers themselves. For the numbers, select ‘1, 2, 3…’

If you want to insert an additional note, or delete a note already inserted, the computer programme will automatically change the numbers of your notes to include the newly inserted (or deleted) note in the appropriate sequence.

b) First reference to a particular source

The first time you cite a particular source you should give full details in your notes of how the reader can access that same source (whether it is a book, an article, a newspaper or a website).

If you are citing a book or an article, the name of the writer of the source always appears in the usual order (for example: Margaret Shewring – not putting the surname

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first); the title should be complete, in italic font, and the full publication details given (see below).

If the source is a newspaper, the title of that newspaper should be in full and in italic font. You should also give the date on which the article appeared. If you know the name of the writer of the article (or review), you should include that at the start of the note: Michael Billington, The Guardian, 11 September 2015.

Please note the correct presentation for the date.

For a website or online database you need to give the full web address and the date on which you accessed the site.

c) Subsequent reference(s) to an identified source

After the first reference to a source in your notes, both the name of the author and the title of the work cited can be reduced to a shortened form and the rest of the publication details are not necessary. You do need to give the page number(s) for books and articles.

d) Dates

It is usual to give the date in terms of ‘day, month, year’: 1 January 2016; 11 September 2015.

If you want to include the relevant day of the week (e.g. for a newspaper article), put the day first, followed by a comma: Friday, 10 September 2015.

e) Publication details:

Publication details should be included in round brackets, following the author and title details.

Always give the place of publication, followed by a colon, then the publisher followed by a comma, and the date of the copyright for the publication: (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996).

If there is more than one place of publication indicated on the title page, or on the back of the title page, in a particular book – give both: e.g. (Aldershot and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2004). [Here the first place of publication is in the UK and the second is in the USA.]

If the book to which you are referring is reprinted or is not the first edition you should give the date of the copy of the book that you are citing: e.g. (Cambridge: Cambridge

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University Press, 2001, repr. 2005) or (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001; 2nd edition, 2005).

If the work you are citing is a translation you should include the name of the translator following the title: Title, trans. by…

Numerous examples can be found in the References chapter in the MHRA Style Guide.

Some helpful tips:

ALL BOOK TITLES should be in italic font. The capitalisation should follow that on the title-page of the relevant book.

ALL JOURNAL ARTICLES should be enclosed in inverted commas: ‘Documents concerning the reconstructed Globe playhouse’, in Shakespeare Survey XXX (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 68 – 78.

ALL PAGE REFERENCES should be presented as succinctly as possible: e.g. pp. 68-78; pp. 62-8.

f) Bibliography

You should always end your work with a full bibliography of those works (books, articles, plays, collections and websites) to which you refer in your own work – or that have played a seminal role in your background reading.

It is usual to divide the entries in your Bibliography. Primary Sources and Secondary Sources as well as Electronic resources (including audio and visual resources as well as websites) should be given in separate sections.

In a bibliography, under each category the works are listed by the author’s name – with the surname first, then the first name (or initials). This enables the bibliography to be in alphabetical order. If there is more than one author, the name format for the second (and other) authors should be given in the order of first name or initials followed by the surname.

g) Short Quotations within your own sentence structure

Select your quotations carefully so that short quotations fit into the syntax (grammar) of your own sentence. Always indicate such quotations with single quotation marks and make sure that there is a footnote entry. E.g. Andrew Gurr points out that the recent archaeological findings about the Rose playhouse are ‘important in understanding the plays of Christopher Marlowe as performed in and around London

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in the sixteenth century’.1 Here the punctuation at the end of the quotation follows the punctuation that would follow naturally in your own sentence structure. The footnote reference number should follow the ‘end-of-quotation mark’ and the full stop. To indicate the page number (numbers), place these details (after the publication details) at the end of the footnote/endnote: p. = page; pp. = pages.

h) Long Quotations (more than 50 words)

Long quotations should be started on a new line. An additional space should separate the quotation from the body of your writing both above and below. The first line should be indented from the left-hand margin and the subsequent lines should be typed under the first with the same indentation from the left. When setting a quotation apart in this way you do not need to use quotation marks. You do still need to give a footnote (with its number at the end of the relevant quotation). It is usual to lead into a long quotation with a short phrase followed by a colon.

If you are citing lines from a play, the reference may be included in brackets immediately following the quotation. For example: (Hamlet: I. 3. 6-11) – with the act in large Roman numerals, the scene and line(s) in Arabic numerals.

Your first quotation from a play should also include a footnote references giving the editor/edition that you have used, or the playwright, publisher and page reference, depending on the format of the play being cited.

i) Specific Examples

The MHRA Style Guide gives clear instructions as to how to cite a book, a chapter in a book, a journal, an article in a journal, a play, a poem, a newspaper article, a video or DVD, a digital project-based computer site and a website. All these examples can be found in the on-line MHRA Style Guide.

j) Various examples of elements necessary in a complete citation

For examples of the appropriate citation for multi-volume works, joint-authored works, edited and joint-edited collections and translated texts please see the MHRA Style Guide website.

k) List of illustrations

1 Andrew Gurr, The Shakespearean Stage (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 96.

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It is important to list your source(s) for illustrations included within the body of your essay and/or in your appendices.

Always give as much information as possible on a visual resource, including the name of the photographer if you have it.

There is no copyright on the use of illustrations in academic essays – but should you ever publish your essay/analysis/dissertation, then you will need to supply this information and make sure that copyright has been cleared.

l) Appendices

It is often useful to include at the end of an essay/dissertation some of the materials that can help the reader to understand the body of work submitted.

Such materials could include:

a chronology (of historical events/theatres/writers/artists/musicians)

a genealogy

maps

brief bibliographies on principal figures featured in the discussion

illustrations (line drawings through to full-colour paintings as plates)

architectural drawings

accounts

Only include such additional information in Appendices if the material is crucial to an understanding of your argument.

Make certain that you refer to the appendix/appendices at the relevant point(s) in your discussion and/or foot notes.

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Diploma/MA in Theatre Consultancy: Assessment Criteria.

Each piece of assessed work will be marked by two internal markers.

The External Examiner will have the opportunity to read a selection of papers. Marks will remain unconfirmed until the Examination Board has met.

Grading details for the MA

70 and above Distinction

60-69 Merit Pass

50-60 Pass

49 and below Fail

80+ Criteria as for 70+ and, in addition: exceptional command of the subject; work displaying excellent insight, bringing new perspectives to bear on the material; work judged by the examiners to be of a standard that could be developed into a publishable article for a peer-reviewed publication.

70+ (Distinction) Very high quality work, displaying full understanding of the subject matter. Well organised, well presented, excellently documented and effectively argued, employing an analytical approach, and showing a sound grasp of a significant body of relevant literature and documentation. An intelligently argued contribution, representing an advance in the understanding of, and potentially an original contribution to, the field of knowledge.

60-69 (Merit Pass) A lower level of attainment than work marked at 80+ and 70+, but demonstrating a standard of work qualitatively superior in approach and insight to very good undergraduate degree-level work. A well-structured, well-researched, well documented and intelligently argued contribution showing evidence of individual research.

50-60 (Pass) Conscientious and well-focussed work, demonstrating a good knowledge, clearly written, with adequate referencing and bibliography. Descriptive rather than analytical in approach.

49 and below (Fail) Poorly written and poorly presented. Weak in organisation and documentation. Failure to demonstrate understanding or to address issues raised by the topic. Insufficient referencing and bibliography.

Grading Details for the Diploma

As above except that the Diploma cannot be awarded with a distinction or with a merit pass.

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School of Theatre, Performance & Cultural Policy Studies

Diploma/MA in Theatre ConsultancySample Assignment Assessment Form

Name of student:

Module:

1st Marker: 2nd Marker:

Assignment:

Comments:

Agreed Mark:

Signature of marker Late penalty

Date

NB: ALL MARKS ARE PROVISIONAL UNTIL AGREED BY THE EXTERNAL EXAMINER

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Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies Attendance Monitoring schemes 2015-16

PG Dip/MA in Theatre Consultancy (Part-time course)

Students are required to attend 3 x 1 week long residential courses in year 1 of the course plus the equivalent of a further residential week in year 2.

Monitoring Point

Description

Year 1

Term 1

1 Attendance at induction event on Friday 2nd October 2015

2 Attendance on first day of residential week (9-13 November 2015)

3 Meeting with Personal Tutor during residential week (9-13 November 2015)

4 Submission of all assessed work for TH964 ‘Performance Spaces and Contemporary Developments’ by specified deadline (deadline TBC)

Term 2

5 Attendance on first day of residential week (15-19 February 2016)

6 Meeting with Personal Tutor during residential week (15-19 February 2016)

7 Submission of all assessed work for TH965 ‘Theatre auditoria: Sensory perception, regulation and legislation’ by specified deadline

Term 3

8 Attendance on first day of residential week (6-10 June 2016)

9 Meeting with Personal Tutor during residential week (6-10 June 2016)

10 Submission of all assessed work for TH967 ‘Venue Management, programming, infrastructure and audience experience’ by specified deadline

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Year 2

Term 1

1 Visiting campus and attending classes/meetings as appropriate to student’s study requirements **

2 Meeting with Personal Tutor during their campus visit

3 Meeting with Diploma Dissertation supervisor (during weeks 1-10 of the autumn term)

4 Submission of PG Diploma dissertation by specified deadline (TBC)

Term 2 & 3

5 Meetings with MA Dissertation supervisor (during weeks 1-10 of the spring and summer terms)

6 Submission of MA dissertation by specified deadline (TBC, likely to be in September 2017)

** note, this monitoring point may be met at any time. In the second year of the part-time MA, the students are not required to take one full residential week. They are encouraged to make up the full week by coming on several one or two-day visits. This allows for regular supervision throughout the second year. They usually chose to come at the same time as the regular residential weeks for the first year group but they do not have to do that.

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UNIVERSITY SERVICES AND FACILITIES

Introduction

Whilst we hope that your time at Warwick will be positive and successful, we recognise that at different stages you may need some support to enable you to take full advantage of what being a student at Warwick can bring.

Listed below are details regarding some of the student support and development services that are available at Warwick. If you don’t find what you are looking for, feel free to contact the Student Support and Development Reception which is located on the Ground Floor of University House. Go to the Student Support Services website or watch the video about the services on offer here.

 

Student Support and Residential Life

Location: Ground Floor, University House

Email: seniorwarden@warwick.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0) 24 765 23465

Student Support and Residential Life brings together Residential Life, Mental Health, links with Campus Health Services, the Nursery and first-point student support. Urgent queries and cases that require a rapid response should now be sent to the Student Support and Residential Life Office in the first instance. This team works closely with the student support team within the International Office and Advice &Welfare Services in the Students’ Union.

The different parts of this division are shown below:

Residential Life

Location: Ground Floor, University House

Email: seniorwarden@warwick.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0) 24 765 23465

Every campus residence has residential staff within it who are there to provide support to and development opportunities for students in their areas. In addition they are there to ensure that residences provide a safe and comfortable place to live and study and have responsibility for enforcing discipline on the rare occasions it is

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required. Students living off campus will be told if they have any residential staff living in their area. If not, they can contact Warwick Accommodation if they have issues regarding their accommodation, and the Student Support and Residential Life Office or any service listed below for other issues.

 

Mental Health

Location: Ground Floor, University House

Email: diane.cook@warwick.ac.uk

The Student Mental Health Co-ordinators provide information, support and, if needed, access to other services for students who have mental health problems. They work closely with other Student Support Services and in liaison with Health Professionals to ensure students receive the support needed to help them to manage their studies and life at university.

Students are encouraged to disclose their mental health issues either at enrolment or at any time afterwards so that they can actively take part in how best to manage any difficulties that may arise.

Nursery

Location: Westwood Campus

Telephone: 024 765 23389

Email: nurseryenquiries@warwick.ac.uk

Web: go.warwick.ac.uk/nursery

The Nursery sits within the division of Student Support and Residential Life to enable better integration of approaches to services for children and families. The Nursery operates as a separate unit and we are looking forward to the development of the new expanded nursery as it takes shape over the coming year. Registered for 47 children aged between 3 months and 4 years, the University Nursery is based on Westwood campus with a dedicated baby unit for 15 under twos and a larger “pre-school” unit for 2, 3 and 4 year olds. Registered with OFSTED, we accept 3 and 4 year olds eligible for LEA funding, as well as employer-based childcare vouchers.

The Nursery provides a welcoming, safe, stimulating and challenging environment, providing for children’s social, emotional, physical and moral development to enable them to grow and develop to their full potential. We strive to create an atmosphere

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of working in partnership with parents and carers so that the children are happy to attend Nursery and you feel confident about leaving your child in our care.

We believe that children learn best through play. In a Nursery as unique as ours, where children can experience as many as 20 different languages and cultures in the course of a normal day, we feel that by allowing the children to express themselves through their play and some carefully structured activities we are allowing them to develop at a pace that makes sense to them.

The Health Centre

Location: Health Centre Road, Main Campus

Telephone: 024 76 524 888

Web: http://www.uwhc.org.uk/

There are two medical practices based at the University Health Centre providing a full range of general practitioner services for registered patients. The Health Centre has both male and female doctors (although a doctor will not be at the centre throughout the opening times), Nurse Practitioners and Practice Nurses. Both practices run an appointments system for consultations with the doctors and the nurses.

The Health Centre offers sexual health and contraceptive clinics, travel clinics and immunisation facilities. There are also physiotherapy sessions at the health centre to which doctors can refer patients.

If ill, registered patients will be given an appointment at the Health Centre as soon as possible. If the Health Centre is closed, arrangements can be made for an emergency consultation. Full information is provided when students register with one of the GP practices.

International Students resident here on courses lasting more than three months are entitled to full NHS (National Health Service) facilities. The NHS does not cover students on courses of less than three months, unless they come from a country, which has a reciprocal arrangement with the UK, or from the EEA and have an European Health Card, and then only if the need for treatment arises while the student is resident in the UK.

Students on courses of study of less than three months in duration are advised to take out private medical insurance before they arrive in the UK where possible.

Registering with the Health Centre

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To use the Health Centre, you must register with them as soon as you arrive at University. In an emergency, the Health Centre may be able assist non-registered students. Students who are resident on campus or within the catchment area of south-west Coventry are strongly advised to register with the Health Centre on campus (Please note, Leamington Spa does not fall within the catchment area). Students resident outside this area are advised to register with a practice close to where they are living (www.nhs.uk/england) can help find a local doctor, dentist, optician, pharmacist etc).

Non-registration with a doctor may cause problems if you are ill or you need a doctor in an emergency.

New students living on campus or within the South West area of Coventry should register with the Health Centre during enrolment week in the Students’ Union Building North. You will need to provide the following information to register:

your NHS number(bring your NHS Medical Card) if you have lived in this country before (essential).

the name and address of your present (most recent) GP in this country

Details of any immunisations you have had and any past medical history

Many students from overseas have been to British Boarding Schools or lived in this country before and would have been registered with a GP then – you must ensure that you bring with you your NHS number and name of the GP practice you were registered with.

Senior Tutor

Location: Ground Floor, University House

Email: seniortutor@warwick.ac.uk

Web: go.warwick.ac.uk/seniortutor

For guidance and advice on academic matters which you have not been able to resolve with either your personal tutor or your departmental Senior Tutor, you may contact the University’s Senior Tutor who offers an important service to students. See: go.warwick.ac.uk/seniortutor

The Senior Tutor liaises with closely with both the Personal Tutor system and student support and development services on campus.

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University Counselling Service

Location: Westwood House, Westwood Campus

Email:Counselling@warwick.ac.uk

Web: go.warwick.ac.uk/counselling

The University Counselling Service has a number of professionally trained counsellors who offer a confidential service to students who feel that emotional or psychological problems are affecting their ability to study or function properly whilst at the university. Students may be seen individually or in groups. The service also organises single session groups on study skills, time management and stress management throughout the academic year.

For more information on the service and resources such as self help material and email counselling see the website at: go.warwick.ac.uk/counselling

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University Disability Services

Location: Ground Floor, University House

Email: disability@warwick.ac.uk

Telephone: 024 765 73734

Web: go.warwick.ac.uk/disability

Disability Services is part of the Student Development and Diversity Division. We advise and provide services for students who can define as 'disabled' under the Disability Discrimination Act. This includes physical and sensory impairments, learning differences (e.g. dyslexia, dyspraxia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia), autistic spectrum conditions, mental health difficulties, 'unseen' conditions (e.g.asthma, epilepsy, diabetes, heart conditions), and other conditions (e.g. CFS, ME) for example.

We encourage applicants and students to notify us on application, enrolment or at any time later of a disability, learning difference or other condition in order that we can provide advice and services to facilitate study at the University. We can also advise on whether individual circumstances are definable as a 'disability' under the law and thus whether students are entitled to have reasonable adjustments made for their studies. Information provided to Disability Services is held in confidence and is only shared with written agreement. We do encourage information sharing to enable the university to make any reasonable adjustments required.

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For further information or advice, including advice on Disabled Students Allowances, please contact disability@warwick.ac.uk, telephone the Disability Co-ordinator on 02476 573734 or visit the website: go.warwick.ac.uk/disability.

The International Office

Location: First Floor, University House

Telephone: +44 (0)24 765 23706 Web: go.warwick.ac.uk/international

The International Office warmly welcomes all new international students to the University of Warwick.

We are a friendly team of experienced staff, here to support all EU and overseas students during your studies at the University of Warwick. We would like you to come and see us if you have queries or difficulties about anything during your stay. We run the annual Orientation induction programme for new international students, and throughout the year we help with queries about police registration, banking and student status letters. We also work pro-actively to give you opportunities to improve your student experience at Warwick by organising a programme of cultural days out and social events for students and families and administering the HOST programme (a national programme enabling overseas students to stay with families across the UK). We have a team of qualified advisers who provide free, confidential immigration advice and assistance. We provide advice on matters such as extending your visa, travelling abroad and working visas and regulations.

We also support foundation, visiting and exchange students who are here under Erasmus partnerships or any other of the wide range of exchange agreements and visiting programmes (including JYA).

As well as dedicated student support staff, we have regional teams who are responsible for students from particular areas of the world. You may have met some of these staff before at exhibitions or at pre-departure receptions or school visits, and you are very welcome to refer to your individual contact after you arrive.

Our office is situated on the first floor of University House and is open from 9am to 5pm Monday to Thursday and 9am to 4pm on Fridays (tel: +44 (0)24 765 23706).

The Chaplaincy

Location: Main Campus (near Arts Centre)

Web: go.warwick.ac.uk/chaplaincy

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At the heart of central campus, the Chaplaincy is a vibrant space open to all members of the University community. You can come here for meetings, to relax or study together, enjoy light refreshments, or spend time in public worship or quiet thought. It’s a popular gathering place that welcomes students of any or no faith.

The Chaplaincy is home to the Anglican, Roman Catholic, Free Church and Jewish chaplains, who are always glad to meet students socially and pastorally. As a valued part of the University’s Welfare network, the chaplains offer everyone a sympathetic ear in total confidence. The University also has a dedicated Islamic Prayer Hall immediately adjacent to the Chaplaincy building.

Students’ Union Advice and Welfare Services

Location: Students’ Union North

Web: http://www.sunion.warwick.ac.uk/portal/advice/

Advice and Welfare Services is a confidential Students’ Union service and is independent of the University. They can give information and advice on many areas of University life including:

Accommodation and housing

Problems with your course, lecturer, supervisor or department

Money and debt problems

Support and representation with complaints, appeals, and disciplinary matters

Legal and police problems

Consumer problems

Immigration advice

If you are not sure who to talk to or where to get advice try Advice and Welfare Services first. If it is not them they probably know who the right person is and can help put you in touch.

http://www.sunion.warwick.ac.uk/portal/advice/

The University and Students' Union also takes its responsibilities for Equality and Diversity and the eradication of Bullying and Harassment very seriously. The relevant web pages are listed below: 

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Equality and Diversity: go.warwick.ac.uk/equalops

Bullying and Harassment: go.warwick.ac.uk/harassmentguidelines

 

Sexual, Racial and Personal Harassment

The University and the Students’ Union regard all forms of harassment as unacceptable and are prepared to take disciplinary action against offenders. Both the University and the Students’ Union are committed to creating a community that is free from harassment and discrimination. Sexual, racial and personal harassment can seriously worsen conditions for staff and students at the University and may also, in certain cases, be unlawful.

The Sexual, Racial and Personal Harassment: Guidelines for Students website, go.warwick.ac.uk/harassmentguidelines, has the University’s statement of equal opportunities and full contact detail s for advice and assistance including:

University Senior Tutor and Counselling Service, telephone 024 7652 3761 or extension 23761

Students’ Union Advice and Welfare Services, telephone 024 7657 2824 or extension 72824

Welfare and Equal Opportunities Officer (Students’ Union sabbatical officer), telephone 024 7657 2778 or extension 72778

Nightline (please note that Nightline is a listening service and will not offer advice), 9pm-9am, telephone 024 7641 7668 or extension 22199

Chaplaincy, telephone 024 7652 3519 or extension 23519

Online Social Networking Sites

The use of online social networking sites (e.g. Facebook, Twitter etc.) has become a very significant part of the lives for many people. They provide a very positive way to keep in touch with people in different places, share common interests, exchange ideas, thoughts and content on academic matters, and to have fun.

There have been a number of examples where these services have been used for less positive reasons and it is because of this we offer these words of guidance:

• Ensure that you avoid using language which would be deemed to be offensive to others in a face-to-face setting as the impact on individuals is just the same.

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• Avoid allowing the formation of an online group from isolating or victimising your fellow students or academic colleagues. That may not be your intention but if used carelessly it could be the impact that is achieved.

• Avoid using such services in classes unless your tutor has given the group express permission to do so.

• Please ensure that you never use such sites for accessing or sharing illegal content.

We encourage students to make use of such services. However, students should also be aware that the University will take seriously any occasions where the services are used inappropriately. If occasions of what might be read to be online bullying or harassment to students or staff are reported they will be dealt with in the same way as if it took place in a face-to-face setting. Information on the University’s acceptable use policy for IT and its disciplinary regulations can be found at the following sites:

Acceptable Use of IT:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/gov/calendar/section2/regulations/computing/

Warwick Library

The campus Library contains, of course, most of the texts you will need for your studies. The Library is located on Library Road, and is between the Humanities and Social Science Buildings. The Library has a dedicated space for post-graduate students called the Teaching Grid. This is set-up especially for post-graduate use.

The Learning Grids

The main Learning Grid at Warwick is located in University House, and it is open 24-hours per day, seven days per week. This gives you access to computers, presentation rooms, digital equipment, together with quiet areas in which to study, day or night. There are two other seasonal Learning Grids: in the on-campus Rootes Building; and in Leamington Spa, in the Town Hall. The Rootes and Leamington learning grids have limited opening times. Go to http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/using/libspaces/

Warwick Arts Centre

This is the largest arts centre in the Midlands, and it is acknowledged as one of the best in the UK. With its own cinema, a choice of theatres, concert and debating areas, it offers a year-round selection of plays, concerts, films and performances,

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attracting established and up-and-coming names from the UK and around the world. Go to http://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/for the latest listings.

Health and Safety

The School takes your Health and Safety seriously and with this in mind, please be sure to report any accidents or near misses you have whilst on campus to your supervisor or personal tutor and the Centre Administrator, Sarah Shute. You are required to report any accidents or near misses to enable us to investigate the cause to try and avoid future accidents.

Post

Post is put into the pigeon holes directly outside offices G25 and G24 in Theatre Studies. Please be sure to check your pigeon hole regularly for post. Students share pigeon holes – they are allocated using the first letter of your surname (e.g. if your surname is Smith then post will be put in the pigeon hole labelled ‘S’).

Post for students on the Postgraduate Diploma and MA in Theatre Consultancy will be forwarded to an agreed address for each student.

Extenuating or mitigating circumstances 

Extenuating or mitigating circumstances are those events which have had a detrimental effect on your study, to the point that it is in your interest to draw your department’s attention to them and ask for them to be considered in mitigation of poor performance. Such circumstances include (but are not limited to) illness, both bodily and emotional; the severe illness or death of a close family member; a shocking or traumatic personal experience. In addition, sudden, unexpected changes in family circumstances might affect your ability to make academic progress as a consequence of their demonstrable emotional impact upon you, and may also be considered as mitigation.

The University is aware that in some cultures it is considered shameful or embarrassing to disclose the details of these kinds of circumstances to those outside one’s family. This is not the case in the prevailing UK culture and you should be aware that your department and the University are fully supportive of students in difficult circumstances and want to assist if at all possible. If you feel inhibited from talking to a tutor or other member of staff in the first instance, you may also consider talking to a member of your SSLC, the Students’ Union, or a counsellor for initial, informal advice.

Clearly, though, in order for your circumstances to be considered as mitigating by your department, they must be conveyed formally to someone in your department (a tutor, the Director of Graduate/Undergraduate Studies, a course/module convenor, for instance). The University expects that you will discuss your circumstances before Exam Boards meet, so that they may be taken into account in good time. You should be aware that, in the event

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you feel you need to appeal the outcome of an Exam Board, offering extenuating or mitigating circumstances at that point will need to be accompanied by a good reason why you withheld the information earlier. Without wanting to invade your privacy, the University does expect that you bring such circumstances to your department’s attention in a timely manner, despite the discomfort you might feel in so doing. Failure to disclose such circumstances at a time when you could have done so may subsequently be problematic. Your department will do all it can to support you in difficult situations.

More information about the University’s policy on mitigating circumstances can be accessed here:https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/aro/dar/quality/categories/examinations/policies/u_mitigatingcircumstances/

Appeals and Complaints

The University operates a three stage Student Complaints Resolution Pathway. The Student Complaints Resolution Procedure, together with further information, advice and guidance for students, is available online from http://warwick.ac.uk/studentfeedbackandcomplaints/

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