Information for new PhD students

How to find the postgraduate office

• we are based in Room 311 of the ACE Extension (Building 14 on the campus map)
• enter the building via the walkway entrance
• go up to level 3
• follow the red arrows on the map below

Blackboard

Blackboard is the College's 'Virtual Learning Environment', an on-line portal upon which you can find a great deal of useful information and resources:

http://bb.imperial.ac.uk

You can self-enrol on the RAFT course (a pre-requisite Health and Safety requirement) by following the PhD Student Blackboard Enrolment Instructions

If you don't have access to the Chemical Engineering PhD student resources, please contact Susi Underwood providing your user name. If you need access to any undergraduate course materials, please contact Rituparna Saha providing your user name, the course code and name of the course to which you need access.

PhD research symposium

The PhD Research Symposium has been established as an annual event, which takes place in the spring. The symposium is a great opportunity for PhD students to share their research with the Department and representatives from industry.

All third-year PhD students are expected to give either an oral or a poster presentation.

Attendance at the talks is compulsory for first-year postgraduate research students.

PhD student-staff committee

The PhD student-staff committee was established in 2007 with the aim of giving the PhD students a voice and to organise a number of PhD student events.