General tutorial information, internal web page: academic year 2012/13
For many administartive questions it is most efficient to contact the Student Services Centre: Portland Building (issues -- for example -- letter of registration for current students)
For other administrative question (specific to Psychology courses), it is useful to contact the School Office (notice opening hours): Psychology Building, Ground Floor, psychology-enquiries (at) nottingham.ac.uk, phone +44(0)115 95 15361
Or ask the tutor: room B50, martin.schuermann (at) nottingham.ac.uk
Webpages for undergraduate and postgraduate students at the School of Psychology, in particular ...
- Psychology modules
- Student handbook with marking criteria (please re-read from time to time)
- Coursework deadlines
- Dates of term
- Guidelines on plagiarism and fabrication of results (please re-read from time to time)
- Advice on procedures for academic offences (speak to a STUDENTS' UNION EDUCATION ADVISER in the Student Advice Centre, phone 0115 846 8730, student-advice-centre@nottingham.ac.uk - if you receive a message inviting you to a meeting about possible academic offences, it is RECOMMENDED to contact the Advice Centre WITHOUT DELAY )
- Extenuating circumstances. If circumstances like acute illness prevent you from attending an exam or from handing in coursework on time, please inform the School of Psychology as follows: (1) inform tutor, best by email; (2) hand in the extenuating circumstances form to School Office (see link below - it is important to specify which period of time was affected by circumstances) - please see form for time limits; (3) supply evidence supporting the claim for extenuating circumstances (see extenuating circumstances form or link below). In case evidence is sent directly to the School, please have it addressed to School Office (address as above) and ask for a copy to be sent to yourself (in case original gets lost in the mail). IT IS IMPORTANT TO FOLLOW ALL 3 STEPS. Full details about extenuating circumstances are here (notice links to forms at the bottom of the page)
Getting started with library and information technology services (email, portal, ...)
The university-wide module catalogue is available on the web
Timetables are accessible on the web
Campus maps on the web
Details about the optional "Personal Development Records" (Personal Academic Records) can be found here and here (please note: rather than using the ePARs messaging function, please send email to martin.schuermann (at) nottingham.ac.uk)
Centre for Career Development, University of Nottingham, in particular Career options in psychology
Students whose first language is not English please see insessional courses at the Centre for English Language Education (for example about academic writing)
If you wish to leave before the term ends, this form needs to be filled in
Exam dates. Please see intranet portal. Please be aware that -- for example -- exam dates published on the intranet may be subject to changes
Email for university purposes. It is highly recommended to use the subject/header line (typically for a summary of what your email contains). If you are not known to the addressee, please use the first sentence of the email body to introduce yourself, like for example "I am a first year undergraduate on the Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience course..."
IMPORTANT timepoints during your studies (if interested, please discuss details with tutor)
- MID-FIRST YEAR (for example December, January): the University offers a program for exchange between the Nottingham campus and the Malaysia campus, please see Information on Study in Asia - See notice boards or ask School Office for application deadline (for example January/February of second year). Also notice information on summer schools summer schools
- END OF FIRST YEAR or BEGINNING OF SECOND YEAR: Students with an average of 60% (across first-year Psychology modules) may qualify for a "Study Abroad" year at a university in the Universitas 21 consortium. Details will be announced early in the second year. See notice boards or ask School Office for application deadline (for example January/February of second year). Also notice information on summer schools summer schools
- END OF FIRST YEAR or BEGINNING OF SECOND YEAR: If you have good first-year marks (typically average > 65% across Psychology modules) you may qualify for a research internship in the School of Psychology during the summer between the end of the second year and the beginning of the third year. An internship can involve laboratory work in a research group. You may want to browse through the School of Psychology research webpages and contact individual researchers whose topics are of interest to you. Students will likely be made aware of the application procedure (for example by email from the School Office) during the autumn semester of the second year. Notice that the MRC Institute of Hearing Research on the UoN University Park Campus also offers internships, see "summer work experience" on the IHR web pages. It may also be possible to apply for an internship at a university other than Nottingham, in the UK or abroad.
- END OF SECOND YEAR or BEGINNING OF THIRD YEAR: If you have good second-year marks (typically average > 65%) you may be interested in postgraduate studies, e.g. in a PhD programme. It is important that you apply for such programmes EARLY during the autumn semester of the third year. One possibility is to contact individual researchers and enquire about their research projects. As you probably know, open PhD places can be found for example on http://www.findaphd.com, http://www.jobs.ac.uk, http://www.prospects.ac.uk, http://fens.mdc-berlin.de/jobs/, http://www.naturejobs.com, http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/ etc. If your marks are somewhat below 65% then you may want to consider applying for a 1-year MSc programme -- see for example http://www.findamasters.com -- which would then give you access to a 3-year PhD programme later on. For both PhD and MSc options, you can find advice on the "further study" pages of the UoN Centre for Career Development, see also http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/careers/students/.
Plan ahead: Centre for Career Development and British Psychological Society
Tutorials for first year students academic year 2012/13
Timetable
Please note that attendance is mandatory. If you cannot attend on a certain day for an important reason, please send email to martin.schuermann (at) nottingham.ac.uk
- Tue 02 Oct 2012 16:00 to 17:00, room A30, Psychology Building
- Tue 16 Oct 2012 16:00 to 17:00, room A30, Psychology Building
- Tue 30 Oct 2012 16:00 to 17:00, room A30, Psychology Building
- Tue 13 Nov 2012 16:00 to 17:00, room A30, Psychology Building
- Tue 27 Nov 2012 16:00 to 17:00, room A30, Psychology Building
- Tue 05 Feb 2013 14:00 to 15:00, room A29, Psychology Building
- Tue 19 Feb 2013 14:00 to 15:00, room A29, Psychology Building
- Tue 05 Mar 2013 14:00 to 15:00, room A29, Psychology Building
- Tue 19 Mar 2013 14:00 to 15:00, room A30, Psychology Building
- Tue 30 Apr 2013 14:00 to 15:00, room A29, Psychology Building
First-year students have to submit tutorial essays according to the First Year Tutorial Guide
Tutorials for second year students academic year 2012/13
Timetable
Please note that attendance is mandatory. If you cannot attend on a certain day for an important reason, please send email to martin.schuermann (at) nottingham.ac.uk
- Tue 02 Oct 2012 15:00 to 16:00, room A30, Psychology Building
- Tue 30 Oct 2012 15:00 to 16:00, room A30, Psychology Building
- Tue 27 Nov 2012 15:00 to 16:00, room A30, Psychology Building
- Tue 19 Feb 2013 13:00 to 14:00, room A29, Psychology Building
- Tue 19 Mar 2013 13:00 to 14:00, room A30, Psychology Building
- Tue 30 Apr 2013 13:00 to 14:00, room A29, Psychology Building
Second-year student have the option to hand in one practice essay per semester. The format is the same as for first-year tutorial essays. Please ask the tutor for details. Submit essays electronically, as *.doc (not .docx) or .pdf file
Past exams and Exams reports on Learning Community Forum webpages
- Previous university exam papers are in many cases available to students, please see here for details.
- The Staff-Student Feedback Committee maintains webpages with useful information including exam reports (information about students' performance in past exams).
Neuroanatomy resources on the web
Neuroimaging resources on the web
Statistics resources on the web
Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology in the press
"Companion websites" for textbooks (examples)
Presentations
Writing essays and reports
Academic Integrity
Word count for essays, coursework, practical reports etc
Where word count limits are given for essays etc in School of Psychology, you do not have to include the references (unless explicitly specified othwerwise)
Students occasionally ask whether there is something like a "10% leniency on word counts". Texts that exceed the specified word count by 10% are not automatically considered too long. However, please keep in mind that irrelevant material added to the text will decrease the overall mark (regardless of word count).
Advice regarding (electronic) submission of essays, coursework, project reports, ...
- Penalties (e.g. lower marks) for late submission are detailed in the undergraduate handbook.
- Whenever essays/coursework/project reports have to be handed in as paper copy AND electronically, please make sure that you submit BOTH before the deadlines. In case of technical difficulties with the electronic submission system, please inform the School Office _immediately_ -- in such a case it is all the more important to submit the paper copy without delay
- Whenever you submit coursework and/or project reports by email please keep backup copies, best in several locations: (1) in the "sent mail" directory of your email account on the @nottingham.ac.uk systems; (2) in your home directory on a Psychology server, (3) on portable memory (e.g. USB memory), (4) in a secondary email account which you can access remotely in case you are traveling (just cc your email with assignment attached to the secondary email account at the moment of submission; note that this approach also overcomes any limitations of storage space that may apply to option 1)
- If you use an email client program that filters spam (junk mail), please check the settings. Don't allow automatic deletion because occasionally error messages like "recipient cannot be reached" may be sorted into the junk mail folder -- such messages are obviously important!
- Before you attach a file to an email, please check the file size. Many email systems do not allow you to send files larger than -- for example -- 2 MB; even if you are allowed to send them, large files may block a recipient's inbox. Please get familiar with methods to reduce file size (e.g. reducing the size of graphics embedded in Microsoft Word files)
Advice regarding the use of email for university purposes
- Please make sure that your university email account is fully functional at all times. Please be aware of possible limitations of mailbox size. The university may send some emails exclusively to the @nottingham.ac.uk account. If there is an indication of problems with your email account, please ask the IT support team in the School of Psychology (to find out where their offices are located, please ask the School Office) or ask the Information Services helpline
- When sending emails please use a clear and self-explanatory subject line
- At the beginning of the message, introduce yourself: "my name is N.N., I am a first-year student on the Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (C850) course ..."
- whenever you attach your work to an email, choose a filename that contains module code and your name
- if you submit in Microsoft word format, use doc (Word 2003) instead of docx (Word 2007)
- in many cases it is preferable to submit in pdf format
- whatever teh requested format for submission, it amy be usefuil to keep a pdf copy as abckup (for example, a word file that links to certain graphs rather than embedding them will be incomplete when the graphs are deleted, whereas a pdf printout will be complete
- check you university email lpXXXX@nottingham.ac.uk frequently, e.g. twice a day (note that some computer classrooms on campus are accessible in the evening, even 24 hours a day)
- keep the filesize of attachments below 2 MB
- when you reply to an email, choose "reply" or "reply to all" option as required
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