Academic Advisors

Academic Advisors have a valuable role in supporting students with their personal and professional development through Years 1-5 of the programme, and making use of a bespoke online student portfolio.

You will provide individual general academic and wellbeing support to a group of students including supporting their reflective practice, providing mentoring in their personal and professional development, signposting to further support where appropriate and reviewing student electronic portfolios, in order to build life-long skills.

Academic Advisors for students in Years 1-2

This role is available to you if you have an academic appointment with relevant teaching experience, or you are a research fellow, lecturer or above with a substantive contract (i.e. you are employed and have a contract directly) with The University of Manchester of at least 2 years duration.

Advisors in Years 1-2 meet with their students twice per semester and have the same group of students for 2 years running.

Academic Advisors for students in Years 3-5

This role is available to:

• Clinical academics in the School of Medical Sciences or Biological Sciences; with a permanent contract at the level of Lecturer or above;
• NHS clinicians with a primary medical degree at consultant level, with a permanent contract;
• GPs at salaried or partner level (substantive post).

Next steps

If you are interested, please email us at ppd@manchester.ac.uk, including your CV, and we can advise you on the next steps or arrange an informal discussion before signing up to any workshops.

Students are required to meet their Advisors twice per semester; meetings usually expected to last 30-60 minutes. However, Advisors are encouraged to enhance their support for their students by meeting them more frequently, individually or in groups. Online/remote media can be used for the more informal meetings. 

Full training and support for you in these roles is provided by Academic Mentors and PPD Leads. 

If you are already in the role of Academic Advisor for students in Year 3-5, please see our PRiME Core workshops for essential updates/workshops to help you in your role. 

Please note that training for Advisors for Year 1-2 students is currently run centrally, not through PRiME, so please email ppd@manchester.ac.uk for more information.