Every graduate student is assigned a tutor, who is a fellow of the college.

While your departmental or faculty Supervisor is there to oversee your academic work, your tutor’s role, as Queens’ College explains, ‘is to ensure that you do not fall foul of the University bureaucracy — and to help you with any problems concerning finances, health, welfare, and anything else that is worrying you’ — personal problems included! In other words, your tutor is there to offer you what is called ‘pastoral’ care, for as long as you’re a student.

If you are having difficulties with your supervisor or academic department, tutors are also available to liaise with them as an advocate on your behalf. Most students also don’t realise that it is possible to deposit CVs and letters of reference from your academic Supervisor with your tutor: these will be kept on file as a resource to you, even after you graduate.

Available online is Dr. Clare Bryant’s ‘Tutorial Frequently Asked Questions‘. This is a very handy resource: here you can find information and web links to do everything from graduate funding to car parking, and from welfare issues to thesis binding.

We want to stress that you can contact your (or another) tutor with any sort of problem you might have – at the very least, he or she will know where to direct you to find someone who can help. It’s important that you get to know your tutor – tutors are there to help, but they can only do so if you let them know there’s a problem.

Graduate Tutors, Offices, and Email Addresses

(Email addressess are @cam.ac.uk)

The Senior Tutor is Dr. James Kelly.

Click here for Tutors’ term-time surgery hours.