Paid work
7.6.1 A full-time candidate may undertake teaching, demonstrating and, subject to approval, other paid work directly related to their research training, provided that the total demands made on their time, including time spent in preparation, does not normally exceed 6 hours a week, averaged over 30 weeks.
7.6.2 The Research Degree Committee acknowledges that not all Departments will be able to offer students the opportunity to teach. However it is a requirement that all students undertake the basic teacher training provided by their Faculty or Department during their first semester, following enrolment on the programme.
7.6.3 The Faculty must, when asking research students to teach undergraduate students, provide appropriate instruction.
- Students whose teaching duties exceed 50 hours per year are required to attend the training course run by the University’s Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development.
- Undergraduate teaching should be distributed amongst research students as fairly as possible to prevent individual students from being overloaded, which could have a detrimental affect on their research.
- Full-time students should not be required to undertake more than 6 hours of teaching duties per week including all teaching related activities.
7.6.4 Full-time students who wish to undertake paid work not directly related to their research training must get the permission of their Director of Studies and Postgraduate Research Tutor.
7.6.5 A full-time student must allocate at least 35 hours a week to work on their research programme and should not undertake more than 20 hours per week paid employment or other commitments at any time during the course of their programme.
Part-time candidates should have a minimum of 15 hours per week available for their programme of study over the full duration of their programme.
Holiday
7.6.6 Students may take up to 8 weeks holiday in each year (pro rata for parts of a year), inclusive of normal public holidays. No more than 4 weeks can be taken at any one time. The timing of the holiday must be agreed with their Director of Studies.
Any student who wishes to request more than 4 weeks of holiday at one time must seek permission from their Director of Studies and Postgraduate Research Tutor and Research Degrees Team. For those students on a Student visa, the Academic Registrar must also give permission.