‌Sociology and CWS Professional services 

Sophie Bramley

Department Manager

• +44 (0)1904 32 2427
• Direct: sophie.bramley@york.ac.uk

• Management/strategic oversight of Professional Services
• Department Operations & HR lead
• Direct support to HoD
• Lead Professional Services team
• Department Safety Advisor and Covid secure lead
• Manage Department Finances
• Strategic Research/Teaching Management inc complex student cases
• DMT/RMT member
• Strategic REF guidance & support
• Oversees academic workloading, Teaching & Learning, Research and Operations policy and implementation
• Faculty/University level Department representation

Sheila Davitt

Research Facilitator

sheila.davitt@york.ac.uk

• REF support/administration
• Research Grant management/administration (pre-award)
• Post-award contact
• DRC support
• Pure support
• Research Strategy/policy
• Research Development
• Research finance lead
• Oversee all Dept Research initiatives

Tom Coward

Placements Coordinator

• +44 (0)1904 32 3053
• tom.coward@york.ac.uk

• Placements Coordination & Careers Lead
• Sociology@work convenor/module lead
• Employability strategy coordination/implementation
• Student internship lead
• Open Days
• CV/Interview training
• 1 to 1 and group student careers support
• Careers/employability initiatives eg Transform Challenge
• Employability Partnerships

Debs Stephens

Student Services Manager

• +44 (0)1904 32 3044
• debs.stephens@york.ac.uk

• Overall management of all UG, PGT and PGR programmes
• Management of the Student Services team and deputy to Department Manager
• Joint Programmes Lead
• Student Experience lead inc. NSS, Induction etc
• Complex student case lead
• Covid T&L contingency lead
• Programme Design and Semesterisation Lead
• Timetabling, Appeals and Complex Student Case lead

Student Services

Amy Atkinson

Administration Manager (Student)

• +44 (0)1904 32 4736
• sociology-ug@york.ac.uk
  sociology-pgt@york.ac.uk
  sociology-assessments@york.ac.uk

• Coordination & management of day-to-day student services processes
• Prog maintenance / module catalogue
• Online teaching lead
• Line Management of Student Support Administrators
• Process redesign/review
• Joint programmes setup and coordination

Dina Hashem

Student Support Administrator (Undergraduate)

• +44 (0)1904 32 1605
• sociology-ug@york.ac.uk
  sociology-pgt@york.ac.uk
• criminology@york.ac.uk

• Undergraduate enquiries
• Criminology contact
• Student Communications
• Optional Modules
• GTAs/Casual Workers/Internships
• Welcome week/Induction/Graduation
• Student Handbooks (UG)
• Module Feedback
• Open days/Visit Days/UG Admissions contact
• Global study 
• UG supervisions and attendance inc. Tier 4 compliance

Rob Smith

Student Support Administrator (Undergraduate) 

• sociology-assessments@york.ac.uk
• sociology-ug@york.ac.uk 

• Undergraduate Assessment Lead
• Distribution of submissions hand-ins/uploading feedback/marks
• Exam boards
• Exam paper setting/timetabling/monitoring
• Credit counts
• External Examiners (UG)
• Academic Misconduct
• Appeals
• Ethics
• UG dissertations inc. supervisions

Anna Richardson

Student Support Administrator (Postgraduate Taught and Research)

• +44 (0)1904 32 2631
• sociology-pgt@york.ac.uk
  sociology-pgr@york.ac.uk

• Postgraduate Research Admissions
• Postgraduate Finance & Funding Funding
• Postgraduate Taught Dissertations
• Postgraduate Research Taps/Supervision/Vivas
• PGT and PGR Supervisions and attendance
• PGR committee servicing
• Transfers
• PG induction
• Visit days
• Module Feedback (PGT)
• Student Handbooks (PG)
• Graduation
• PG supervisions, attendance and tier 4
• Optional modules (PGT)

Liz O'Brien

Student Support Administrator (Postgraduate Assessments) (CWS administration cover)

• +44 (0)1904 32 3053
• sociology-assessments@york.ac.uk
• cws@york.ac.uk
• sociology-pgt@york.ac.uk

Carol Jones

Student Support Administrator (Undergraduate and Postgraduate Taught)

• +44 (0)1904 32 4357
• sociology-ug@york.ac.uk
  sociology-pgt@york.ac.uk
• sociology-ex-circs@york.ac.ukor PGT & UG:

Victoria Hill

CWS Student Support Administrator

 cws@york.ac.uk 

• Lead for CWS student facing administration inc:
  • Admissions
  • GEMMA
  • Award/Graduation arrangements
  • LOA / Extension / Special Circumstances
  • PGR
/PGT Assessments
  • Exceptional Circumstances (PGT)
  • Induction arrangements
  • Module enrolment
  • Timetabling
  • Virtual Open Days


General Administration

Patrick Loasby

General Administrator

patrick.loasby@york.ac.uk 

• HR administration inc. recruitment, sickness absence etc
• Servicing Committees & Boards
• PA to HoD/DM
• External communications eg Twitter & Webpages
• DCO/IT manager
• Operations/Health & Safety admin support
• Staff inductions
• Green Impact
• Building management
• Academic Probation
• Staff handbooks

Sussan Mortazavi Ravari

Finance Officer

sociology-finance@york.ac.uk 

• Travel & accommodation bookings
• Event finances
• Ordering goods and services
• Budget enquiries
• Expenses
• Credit card purchasing
• POs/Invoices
• Financial Regulations queries/monitoring