Graduate Studies Calendar 2011-2012
1. Graduate Studies & Research Division
1.5 Faculty of the Graduate Studies and Research Division
While all faculty members may participate in some aspects of graduate programmes, including the teaching of graduate courses, there are particular requirements to be permitted to act as the primary supervisor of a graduate student or to sit as an examiner at a thesis defence. Normally, to carry out these functions, a faculty member
- Shall have the PhD or equivalent, it being understood that holding the rank of UT 3 (Associate Professor) or UT 4 (Professor) establishes the equivalence automatically, and
- Shall have a recent history of productive scholarship which is reflected by the dissemination of the results of that scholarship.
By exception, new faculty members in a first university appointment are held to a lesser standard than others when assessing (2) above, for the first two years of their service at RMC.
Heads of Departments are expected to recommend to the Dean of their Faculty the names of those who meet these criteria. The Dean of the Faculty shall make a decision in consultation with the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research.
Faculty members with complete privileges will be identified by an asterisk (*) beside their names in the graduate calendar.
The Dean of Graduate Studies may, with the concurrence of the Dean of the Faculty, permit faculty members who are not so identified to supervise or examine a thesis in special circumstances, where the particular expertise of the faculty member aligns especially well with the thesis topic. Exceptions of this nature are more readily granted when the degree being sought is a Master's degree rather than a Doctoral degree.
