Contact Us

Key Contacts

Many of your questions can be answered by looking on the Philosophy website or in Tabula so please try here initially. Tabula is a useful and very important part of your study. It allows you to keep track of your progress throughout your course and gives you access to your timetable, contact points, assessment deadlines and other information you may need. You will receive important announcements from us via email, so you should check your Warwick email account regularly.

Philosophy Office

Location: The Philosophy Office is situated on the 2nd floor of the Social Sciences Building.

If you can't find the answer to your query on the website, your first point of contact will normally be the Philosophy Programmes Team: Natalie Lynn, Kerry Law (currently on maternity leave) and Trang Phan (Programmes Officers), Victoria Haicox (Academic Administrator) and Ela Ozcan (Student Experience Coordinator)

Personal Tutor

You will be assigned an academic staff member as your personal tutor each year. They will be the primary point of contact for academic enquiries by an individual student, but can then refer a student to another member of the Department if necessary. Your personal tutor is responsible for giving academic and personal advice, and may act on your behalf in internal University matters. You should meet your tutor in the first week of each term, keep in regular contact, and meet at least once more each term. You will be able to find the name and contact details of your personal tutor in your Student Profile on to Tabula.Link opens in a new window

Director of Student Experience and Progression:

The Director of Student Experience and Progression (DSEP) responsible for enhancing the student experience for undergraduates students in Philosophy through the monitoring of student progression and the promotion of internships and study skills. The current DSEP is Lorenzo Serini.

Course Conveners:

Each Course also has a course convenor who can be contacted with respect to queries specifically relating to course regulations and developments if your personal tutor is unable to advise.

Philosophy (Single Honours) - Johannes Roessler (Term 1 and 3) and Barney Walker (Term 2)
Philosophy with Psychology - Steve Butterfill
Philosophy and Literature (incl. Philosophy, Literature and Classics) - Karen Simecek
Maths and Philosophy - Walter Dean
Philosophy and Politics - Kartik Upadhyaya

Director of Education:

Within the Philosophy Department, there is also a Director of Education who supports the operation and development of all of the undergraduate courses. The Director of Education also chair's the Department's Education Committee and reports to the Head of Department. The current Director of Education is Thomas Crowther.

Senior Tutor:

The Senior Tutor has oversight of the personal tutor system within the department, and liaises with the University Senior Tutor's office about student welfare and pastoral policy. The current Departmental Senior Tutor is Nadine Elzein

Head of Department:

Within each department, the Head has overall responsibility through the University Senate to the Council of the University, for the leadership and management of their department and for its coordination, including undergraduate matters. The Head of Department in Philosophy is Guy Longworth.

Full contact details for the Department can be found on our contact webpages.

How we contact you

It is essential that you familiarise yourself as soon as possible with the main ways in which the University will communicate with you.

Tabula

The University has developed a secure web-based portal to support teaching and learning on the undergraduate programmes, called Tabula. This will allow you to register for seminars, submit assessments and receive feedback, contact your Personal Tutor and check your attendance record.

Moodle

All modules have information including reading lists, schedules and assessment methods on Moodle. You should join the Moodle page of all modules you are studying and use it as the main source of information for your studies.

Email

The University, the Philosophy Office, and your lecturers will use your University email address ending @warwick.ac.uk to communicate with you, so it is important that you become familiar with its use and check your email every day.

You can set up your Warwick account to forward email automatically to a private email address if you prefer. Details of how to do this can be found at: www.warwick.ac.uk/its. But be careful about using your private email account to reply to messages from us. The University network is heavily protected against intruders, and messages from private email accounts are occasionally blocked by spam and virus filters. We recommend that you make full use of your Warwick email account.

Please note that, whilst members of the department are will normally respond to emails as soon as possible, they may often not be able to do so immediately, and you should not expect them to be available out of working hours or at weekends. Please also be aware that there might be a longer delay in responding to non-urgent enquiries during busy periods (such as during the exams in Term 3) and out of term time.

If you need to contact the department in an emergency please contact the the UG Programmes Team via phone (024 765 73312) and/or email and they will be able to direct your query to someone who can help.

Philosophy Website

The Philosophy Website is updated regularly with news and events relating to your programme. It contains this handbook and other key information about your programme.

Departmental Websites

If you are doing a joint degree or are taking any other module(s) from another Department we strongly recommend you familiarise yourself with that Department's website. Other Departments may have different policies around essay submission and may have their own bespoke marking criteria so you should ensure you are aware of these.

Keeping your details updated

You will have enrolled for your course online and submitted various personal and contact details. These include the contact details we would use in the event that we needed to contact you urgently. Therefore if your contact details change, especially your mobile number, it is vital that you inform the university. Through enrolling you also confirm that you have read the University's policy on the use of your personal data.