Staff Office Hours

The Department of Geography operates an Office Hours system for staff. This is designed to:

• guarantee students reasonable access to all teaching staff, whilst also
• protecting staff time for research and other activities

Contact with the Tutor for Undergraduate Studies, dissertation supervisors or the Head of Department are outside the office hours system when arranged in advance. However, when students have issues to raise with such staff outside scheduled meetings they are encouraged to use the office hours of the relevant staff, thus ensuring that contact is made at a time when the staff member is available.

All teaching staff are available in their offices for three one-hour periods within normal working hours on at least two days each week during each semester. These times are posted on staff doors and on MOLE, and as far as possible they are fixed for a semester at a time: any changes will normally be posted on MOLE by the end of the preceding week.

At other times there is no guarantee that staff will be available, but students can try to contact them - especially about urgent matters - by email, by placing a note on their door or via the departmental office. If a student has classes during the office hours of the person they wish to see, they should contact them to make an appointment.

Please try to comply with the office hours of staff when seeking to consult them.