‌Sociology and CWS Professional services 

Sarah Maynard

Department Manager

• +44 (0)1904 323752
• sarah.maynard@york.ac.uk

Overall responsibility for:

• The Professional Services Team
• Strategic financial planning
• Strategic staffing & recruitment planning
• HR, GDPR, Health & Safety, Estates
• Resource allocation 

Sheila Davitt

Research Facilitator

• +44 (0)1904 32 8946
• 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

Nicola Lowe

Administration Manager

• +44 (0)1904 322980
• nicola.lowe@york.ac.uk 

• Management of HR processes:
  • Recruitment and contracts 
  • Probations
  • Sickness Absence
  • Annual Leave / Flexitime 

• Oversight of general administration:
  • Archiving and data management
  • Honorary and Emeritus administration
  • Asset management 
  • Insurance returns, Health & Safety and Green Impact 
  • Administrative support for Athena Swan

Student Services

Amy Atkinson

UG Administration Manager 

• +44 (0)1904 32 4736
• sociology-ug@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

Liz O'Brien

PG Administration Manager 

• +44 (0)1904 321114
• sociology-assessments@york.ac.uk
• cws@york.ac.uk
• sociology-pgt@york.ac.uk

• Coordination & management of day-to-day student services processes for postgraduate students and postgraduate researchers
• Postgraduate programme maintenance
• Line Management of Postgraduate Student Support Administrators
• Oversight of administration for Centre for Women's Studies

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) 

• +44 (0)1904 32 3664
• 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
• PG induction
• Visit days
• Module Feedback (PGT)
• Student Handbooks (PG)
• Graduation
• PG supervisions, attendance and tier 4
• Optional modules (PGT)

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.uk for PGT & UG

Heather Buckby

Student Support Administrator (Postgraduate Taught)

• +44 (0)1904 32 4014
• sociology-assessments@york.ac.uk
• sociology-pgt@york.ac.uk

• Postgraduate taught assessments
• Postgraduate taught academic misconduct
• Postgraduate taught appeals
• Postgraduate taught ethics
• Postgraduate taught exam boards

Kunza Amin

CWS Student Support Administrator

• +44 (0)1904 32 6880
• 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

 Heather Booth

General Administrator

• +44 (0)1904 32 3233
• heather.booth@york.ac.uk

• Compiling & sending sickness absence returns
• Managing the People Database to add & update associate records
• Keeping staff records up to date
• Undertaking induction processes for new starters
• Organising events - booking rooms, catering & AV as required
• Managing repairs & requests via Planon
• Managing post & the post room
• Providing administrative support to DMT, DRC & the Dept Staff meeting
• Providing Administrative support to the HoD
• First point of contact & managing communications re Health & Safety 
• Managing Twitter & other social media
• Managing the Department webpages
• Ordering & managing Departmental IT equipment
• Ordering stationery & miscellaneous supplies

Sussan Mortazavi Ravari

Finance Officer

• +44 (0)1904 32 5915
• 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