School of Culture & Communication Art History

Art History postgraduate research facilities

Study Spaces

School Study Spaces

The School of Culture & Communication provides several common spaces expressly for the use of our research higher degree (RHD) students (PhD and research masters), and also allocates office space twice yearly. The common spaces are open for any RHD student to use on a casual basis:John Medley 631 is an open common room, which offers: several networked computers; tables and armchairs; a printer for which postgraduates need to provide their own paper; fridge and microwave; wireless networking.

Elisabeth Murdoch 112 and G30 are both set up with desks and networked computers, printers and various other facilities. These two rooms are now available to all the School's RHD students, and will soon be fitted with keypads for easy access (in place of keys). There is no after-hours access to Elisabeth Murdoch, so EM112 and G30 are only available when the building is actually open (hours vary according to semester or non-teaching periods).

If you would like to use these rooms for study, please contact Ishara or Liz and they will tell you the access code. All keys to these rooms should be returned to Ishara / Liz as they will be superseded by the keypads. 

Offices for allocation: the School retains a number of offices on the 6th floor of the John Medley Building for allocation to RHD students. All these offices contain two or more workspaces, and desktop computers can usually be provided on request. A printer is available in 631.

Postgraduates should be aware that there is often more demand for space than can be accommodated. If you are granted access to a study space, it is expected that you will make regular and consistent use of this space. If you are not using it regularly, you owe it to your fellow postgraduates to give up that study space so it can be made available to another student. This will not render you less eligible if you wish to apply for space again at a later date.

Planned absences can be accommodated (see Policy Document).

University Study Spaces

Graduate Centre

The Graduate Centre has study rooms available for research students, for use on a time-share or room-share basis. Carrels are booked by the semester and preference is given to students in the writing-up stage of their research. Graduate Centre study rooms are allocated by UMPA. For details and application forms go to http://www.umpa.unimelb.edu.au/gradcentre/carrels.html
The Baillieu Library has a limited number of carrels available to both MA and PhD candidates, while only PhD students may apply for the very limited number (21) of offices. Enquire at the Loans Desk in the Baillieu Library.

Faculty of Arts study spaces

The Faculty of Arts provides a limited number of postgraduate study spaces to Masters by research and PhD students. Preference is given to students in the final stages of their candidature. For application forms and guidelines, go to http://www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/currentstudents/research/studyspace.html

Baillieu Library

The Baillieu Library has a limited number of carrels available to both MA and PhD candidates, while only PhD students may apply for the very limited number (21) of offices. Inquire at the Loans Desk in the Baillieu Library.

Research Support

Information Services
The Information Services staff provide specialist advice on research strategies and information literacy. They are able to assist with library resources and other sources of information for any of your research needs and are available for individual consultations to help with:

You can contact:
Monica Raszewski by phone on 8344 7796 or by email at monicar@unimelb.edu.au
Mary Stone on 8344 3766 or at marybs@unimelb.edu.au

Individual consultations can also be provided by the School of Graduate Research’s Research Consultant
http://www.gradstudies.unimelb.edu.au/prog_services/researchconsult/

The Baillieu Library

The University’s main Arts & Humanities collections are housed in the Baillieu Library, but many resources are available online through the library’s website, so please refer to their Services, Resources and Contacts for Postgraduates page at: http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/postgrad/

Interlibrary Loans (ILL)

You can request items on Interlibrary Loan (ILL) through the online system. For details consult  http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/services/ill/
For international loans or thesis purchase, make sure you have your supervisor’s approval.  Postgraduate students do not have to pay any ILL costs for materials legitimately related to their thesis research.

English Language or Thesis-writing Problems

If you are experiencing difficulties with your written English or require help with basic thesis-writing skills, you should in the first instance contact the Language and Learning Skills Unit. Phone 8344 0930 or go to
www.services.unimelb.edu.au/llsu/

Photocopying

Postgraduates are eligible for photocopying grants of $50 ($25 for part-time students) in each year of their candidature. Apply directly to the Research Students Administrator, either in person or by email. The documentation will take at least one working day to produce.

Purchasing books

Book-buying is not funded. If you would like to order books for the library that it does not currently have, send your recommendations directly to the Director of Library Resources, Associate Professor Angela Ndalianis.

IT facilities

Melbourne School of Graduate Research has a fantastic site to help with all your information technology queries - it's called the ITKit.
Faculty of Arts - ArtsIT provides some IT services and equipment borrowing for postgraduate students. View the ArtsIT website for more information.
Information Services offers the following IT services:

High Performance Computing Services

High Performance Computing Services
This service is tasked with supporting those ICT requirements of researchers across the University which are beyond what is expected to be provided by their faculty. It does this by providing a range of physical resources together with advice, training and consulting in the most effective means of using these resources to further their research needs. Where this results in changed methods or major productivity improvements this may be referred to as 'eResearch'.

Student Union Computing Centre

Fourth floor, Union Building
More information about Student Union Computing Centre.

IT facilities

Melbourne School of Graduate Research has a fantastic site to help with all your information technology queries - it's called the ITKit.

Faculty of Arts - ArtsIT provides some IT services and equipment borrowing for postgraduate students. View the ArtsIT website for more information.

Information Services offers the following IT services:

High Performance Computing Services

High Performance Computing Services

This service is tasked with supporting those ICT requirements of researchers across the University which are beyond what is expected to be provided by their faculty. It does this by providing a range of physical resources together with advice, training and consulting in the most effective means of using these resources to further their research needs. Where this results in changed methods or major productivity improvements this may be referred to as 'eResearch'.

Student Union Computing Centre

Fourth floor, Union Building

More information about Student Union Computing Centre.

 

 

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