Who is my personal tutor & what do they do?

Your Study Abroad tutor is an academic member of staff with your department who provides guidance and support to study abroad students at King’s.

Each department has an academic member of staff appointed to the role of Study Abroad Tutor; you can find a full list of the departmental study abroad tutors at Study Abroad tutors.

Your personal tutor will:

• Provide a single point of contact for support & guidance for you in your department/faculty
• Are academic staff members with various responsibilities
• Discuss your academic progress
• Signpost to specialist support services
• Support your future planning
• Encourage extra/co-curricular involvement
• Write references

Your department (or possibly your individual programme) also has a Senior Tutor, or an equivalent.

Senior Tutors are responsible for ensuring that there is a robust system for personal tutoring within each department, in accordance with King’s policy.

For a full list of Senior Tutor contacts by faculty, please check Personal Tutoring: Senior Tutors.

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In most cases your personal tutor will support you from induction through to graduation.

In some cases, however, it will be necessary for you to be allocated a new personal tutor. This could be because your personal tutor goes on a period of sabbatical or other leave, because they move to a new role, or because they retire.

If your personal tutor does change, your new personal tutor will make every effort to get to know you as soon as possible – and you are encouraged to be proactive in getting to know them, too.​​​​​

No – personal tutors are only assigned to ‘taught’ students, which are undergraduate and postgraduate taught students. Postgraduate research (PGR) students have instead their Supervisor who fulfils this equivalent role.

For details around this, please refer to the information in Postgraduate Researchers: Getting started.​​​​​​