This is the text for an email sent out in August, 2022

Hello MPHers,

This is a joint message to all those that are due to be part of the Marjon MPH cohort this coming academic year. The main purpose is to confirm what the next few weeks could look like for you and those across the whole programme.

Please keep an eye out for any emails from the University. You should receive more details and requests for registration etc over the coming weeks.

For NEW students only…

Wed 7th Sept 1600 – 1800 - a face-to-face induction/welcome on campus.

We’d love to see you if you can make it. This will be to finalise any registration paperwork and to meet the team and ask any questions that you might have at that stage. It’s not essential to attend as we understand that most of the paperwork is online now. It would, however, be an excellent chance to familiarise yourself with the location and meet some of the other students that are starting this year.

For new AND returning (year 2 only) students…

On Wed 7th Sept we will release information on the “extended induction” that we run for the MPH which is designed to support the new student's familiarisation with our systems and with getting the brain cells awakened for postgrad study. Any reading and writing that we ask you to do is only voluntary and will not be used as submissions for your course BUT will allow us to give you personalised feedback and support from the first proper session that we have a month later. It is also related to future assessments so any time spent on it will not be wasted.

This is highly recommended for new students but returners may want to look at the task as this is a slight heads up on some assessment content for later this semester (This is a similar set of tasks to last year but the writing task is different).

Tues 27th Sept (evening) there will be a check in session on MS Teams to see how you have progressed with the pre-course material and to make sure you are all set for the following week. Details to follow once all registered.

Tuesday 4th Oct the first full session will take place starting on campus at Marjon. New Students will be due to attend from 0930 and returning students from 1030/1100. From then on, the course will run on Tuesdays for 9-10 weeks and then again 9-10 weeks from the end of January. We will primarily be on campus to start with and then work out the best way forwards between us all.

For Year 3 students…

You have already started your year 3 work! We have already discussed your final year projects and you have all spent the summer thinking about your dissertations and should be working on The Initial Proposal Outline and arranging to discuss your project with a member of staff.

Please contact Ben, John or Kass individually for a chat about your proposal and/or suggest dates where you are available for a chat (individually or in pairs/groups) and we will find time to talk to you. Once we get into September we will start contacting you to give feedback on your ideas and/or if we don’t hear from you.

Yr 3’s can find all initial dissertation support resources here: https://marjon.instructure.com/courses/1817/pages/mph-dissertation-planning?module_item_id=70910

If you would like a chat about the course then please get in touch with both of us in the same email and one of us will get back to you as soon as we can.

Kind regards,

Ben Jane & John Downey

bjane@marjon.ac.uk

jdowney@marjon.ac.uk