The Taught Programmes Office
The Taught Programmes Office (often shortened to the TPO) can help students with questions about their course, module registrations, monitoring points and much more. Their friendly team is ready to help you with useful advice, practical support, or pathways to access other University services.
During term, the TPO will send out a weekly email newsletter to all undergraduates. This email contains important information and departmental updates, as well as details about careers events and other activities going on across campus that you can get involved with.
This email will be sent to your university email address - please look out for it and read it!
- Email:
- Phone: External 024765 74831 Internal 74831
- Opening Hours: Monday - Thursday 08.45 - 16.30, Friday 08.45 - 15.30 (Closed 12.15 - 13.00 daily for lunch)
Useful contacts
Senior Tutor: Professor Richard Sharp
The Senior Tutor is responsible for the personal tutoring system and is there to help students with serious pastoral problems. If you are having difficulties, your Personal Tutor, or the TPO, may refer you to the Senior Tutor for further support and advice. Depending on the situation, a chat might be all that's needed but further help can be provided either within the department or through Wellbeing and Student Support Services. The Senior Tutor will be able to advise students on things such as mitigating circumstances, temporary withdrawal or deferral of exams.
See Professor Richard Sharp's staff profile
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Dr. Siri Chongchitnan
The Director of Undergraduate Studies provides support and advice with the regulations of your degree programme. In the first week you will hear from them quite a lot, including in a talk in Welcome Week about course regulations.
As with the Senior Tutor if you have a problem that needs their help you will be referred to them through either your Personal Tutor or the Undergraduate Office. A lot of their work also overlaps with that of the Senior Tutor so you may find that you are getting help from both if you are struggling for whatever reason. The Director of Undergraduate Studies is ultimately responsible for authorising module choices including Unusual Options and change of degree (most commonly between the 3 year BSc. and the MMath), but mostly they will not need to see you personally and paperwork will be passed on to them were appropriate by the TPO.
See Dr Siri Chongchitnan's profile
Director of Student Experience: Dr. Helena Verrill
The Director of Student Experience's role is to ensure that your student experience is positive, productive, supported and enjoyable, from induction week through to graduation. They champion students' voices and ensure that staff and students maintain a collaborative dialogue through the SSLC, focus groups and student surveys. You will also be hearing a lot from them during Welcome Week.
See Dr Helena Verrill's profile
Student Support and Progression Officer (SSPO)
The SSPO supports undergraduate and postgraduate taught students with both academic progression and pastoral welfare, helping to ensure their success throughout their studies. The Maths SSPO role is shared between Isabel Smith () and Anna Ott (). You can contact them by email or drop into the Taught Programmes Office, which is in B0.01.
You can ask the SSPO about: mitigating circumstances, support options, monitoring points, SSLC, and Welcome Week.
Taught Programmes Manager (TPM)
The TPM leads the operational, administrative and managerial support to both academic staff and students engaged in the Department’s undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes of study. The TPM is Alison Bullers who can be contacted at .
You can ask the TPM about: Taught Programmes (UG & PGT), UG & PGT Regulations, guidance and policy, teaching and learning administration, assessment, examinations, and exam boards, progression and outcomes.
Disabled student champion
Every academic department at Warwick has at least one Disabled Student Champion. These are members of academic staff who, as named contacts for disabled students, are helping to build inclusive learning environments, improving communication between departments and central services (such as Disability Services), and ensuring students' needs are met consistently across the University.
Disabled Student Champions are advocates for disabled students. They work closely with personal tutors, the Senior Tutor, Directors of Study, professional services colleagues and others to support disabled students at all stages of their academic journey.
In Maths, the Disabled Student Champion is Richard Sharp, who can be contacted on R.J.Sharp@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window
Find out more about support for disabled and neurodivergent students
Head of Department: Professor James Robinson
The Head of Department is responsible for looking after the department to make sure everyone is happy! They are responsible for shaping the department and departmental culture, and ensuring that we maintain high-quality programmes, staff, and research. You'll see them during Welcome Week, they may be your personal tutor, and they may even be your lecturer!
See Professor James Robinson's profile
Deputy Head of Department (Teaching): Professor Samir Siksek
The Deputy Head of Department (Teaching) has responsibility for all of the teaching delivered by the Mathematics Department. As well as overseeing the strategic development of teaching in the department, they are involved in many other aspects of the running of the department and your degree programme, and they sit on many committees and the exam boards.
See Professor Samir Siksek's profile
The Student Staff Liaison Committee: SSLC
The SSLC is an elected committee of mathematics students who meet twice a term with academic and professional services staff to provide feedback, raise issues and discuss departmental changes. The SSLC are also consulted over proposed changes to the mathematics degrees. There will be elections for first year representatives in the first couple of weeks of term, but you will be able to contact some members early on if there are things that you would like to bring to their attention (they have a noticeboard outside the computer rooms on the ground floor of the Zeeman Building). There is more about the SSLC elsewhere in this handbook.