I’m Camilla Briault and I’m Head of the Research Administration Office. We are the main point of contact for all postgraduate research students. They apply through our office to come to Sussex to do their PhD and any time they want to make a change to their registration, to go part time or change their supervisor, hand their thesis in etc anything regulatory, they do it via our office.

What do new doctoral researchers need to know?

Well mostly they need to know the regulations,  this is the Handbook and Regulations for Doctoral Researchers and really I would say this is the most important thing because then there can’t be any question about whether you can do something or whether you should do something and also make sure your supervisor knows to read the regulations as well.