Useful contacts

Use your student email address

You should always use your student email address when you need to contact administrative and academic staff. You should check your student email address regularly, as this is the main way we communicate with you.

Activate your IT account to receive your own student.manchester.ac.uk email address.

Contacting staff

If you need to see a member of staff, please send an email, leave a message giving your telephone number, or sign-up for an appointment on the office hours schedules displayed outside the staff office doors.

You can find staff email addresses, telephone numbers and their location on the staff directory.

Programme directors

The programme directors for postgraduate taught programmes at Alliance MBS are:

MSc Accounting
Dr Nooch Kuasirikun
Room: 4.079 AMBS
Tel: 0161-306-5880
Email: nooch.kuasirikun@manchester.ac.uk
Nooch's research profile

MSc Accounting & Finance
Dr ChunLei Yang
Room: 5.014 AMBS
Tel: 0161-275-6353
Email: ChunLei.Yang@manchester.ac.uk
ChunLei's research profile

MSc Business Analysis and Strategic Management
Dr Laszlo Czaban
Room: 6.004 AMBS
Tel: 0161-205-6388
Email: laszlo.czaban@manchester.ac.uk
Laszlo's research profile

MSc Business Analysis and Strategic Management
Dr William Il-kuk Kang
Room: 5.062 AMBS
Tel: 0161-306-3413
Email: williamil-kuk.kang@manchester.ac.uk
William's research profile

MSc Business Analytics: Operational Research and Risk Analysis
Dr Tommy Chan
Room: 3.085 AMBS
Email: tommy.chan@manchester.ac.uk
Tommy's research profile

MSc Business Psychology and MSc Organisational Psychology
Dr David Hughes
Room: 7.008 AMBS
Email: david.hughes-4@manchester.ac.uk
David's research profile

MSc Finance
Dr Sarah Zhang
Tel: 0161-306-3452
Email: sarah.zhang@manchester.ac.uk
Sarah's research profile

MSc Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations (HRM) and MSc International Human Resource Management and Comparative Industrial Relations (IHRM)
Dr Syed Imran Saqib
Room: 6.017 AMBS
Tel: 0161-306-3457
Email: syedimran.saqib@manchester.ac.uk
Syed's research profile

MSc International Business and Management
Dr Stefan Zagelmeyer
Room: 5.047 AMBS
Email: S.Zagelmeyer@manchester.ac.uk
Stefan's research profile

MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship
Prof Andrew James
Room: 8.020 AMBS
Tel: 0161-275-5860
Email: andrew.james@manchester.ac.uk
Andrew’s research profile

MSc Management
Dr Catherine Casson
Room: 8.021 AMBS
Tel: 0161-275-1917
Email: catherine.casson@manchester.ac.uk
Catherine's research profile

MSc Marketing
Dr Simos Chari
Room: 3.127 AMBS
Tel: 0161-275-6427
Email: simos.chari@manchester.ac.uk
Simos' research Profile

MSc Operations, Project and Supply Chain Management
Dr Tahir Abbas Syed
Room: 3.045 AMBS
Tel: 0161-306-3460
Email: tahirabbas.syed@manchester.ac.uk
Tahir's research profile

MSc Quantitative Finance
Dr Eirini Konstantinidi
Room: 4.060 AMBS (West)
Tel: 0161-275-0432
Email: eirini.konstantinidi@manchester.ac.uk
Eirini's research profile

Professional Services (PS) staff

Alliance MBS Curriculum & Programmes Team

The team provides information about course units, programme structures, and timetable queries.

Support and advice are most commonly given on:

Course unit selection
Timetabling
Placements

The Curriculum and Programmes team is based in your Student Support Hub on the second floor of AMBS in room 2.091. If you need any in-person support, please visit the Hub and ask at reception to speak to a member of the team. We are available to assist you both in-person and online from Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm (except bank holidays and University closure days).

Phone: +44 161 529 3780

For queries related to curriculum and programmes, contact us at: ambs.programmes@manchester.ac.uk

For queries related to placements, contact us at: ambs.placements@manchester.ac.uk

Alliance MBS Student Support & Wellbeing Team

The team offers guidance and support on your everyday wellbeing and any issues that may affect your ability to study. The team will also be able to signpost you to other student support services within the University, including the Disability Advisory and Support Service (DASS), the Counselling & Mental Health Service, the Students' Union Advice Centre, and more.

Support and advice are most commonly given on:

Please have a look at this presentation from our Student Support and Wellbeing team to see the details of all the support available for you at The University of Manchester.

The Student Support and Wellbeing team is based in in your Student Support Hub on the second floor of AMBS in room 2.091. If you need any in-person support, please visit the Hub and ask at reception to speak to a member of the team. We are available to assist you both in-person and online from Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm (except bank holidays and University closure days).

Phone: +44 161 529 3950

Confidentiality statement

You can be seen in private and any wellbeing concerns affecting your studies will be treated in the strictest of confidence.

However, please be aware that the role of the Student Support and Wellbeing Team is to help you keep on track with your studies and make a success of your time as a student. This means that so we can support you in the best way possible, we may ask if you would be happy for us to share some details of the conversations we have with you with other staff.

This is so we can help you get the support, advice and help you need as quickly as possible. This might be academic staff, the disability support office or the counselling service but would not normally include anyone from outside the University*.

If you are uncomfortable with us sharing this information, your Student Support and Wellbeing Team will be happy to discuss with you which service can provide the best support depending on your circumstances.

* Please note that it is a requirement of the BSc Business Accounting degree programme limited personal data (examination results and where necessary, conduct at the University) will be shared with PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, in accordance with the University of Manchester Registered Student Privacy notice.

Alliance MBS Information, Advice & Guidance (IAG) Team

The team offers information, advice and guidance on any aspect of your student experience.

Support and advice are most commonly given on:

Welcome Week
Academic advisors
Societies
Employability
Peer Mentoring
Graduation

The Information, Advice and Guidance team is based in your Student Support Hub on the second floor of AMBS in room 2.091. If you need any in-person support, please visit the Hub and ask at reception to speak to a member of the team. We are available to assist you both in-person and online from Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm (except bank holidays and University closure days).

Phone: 0161 529 3830

Email: ambs.hub@manchester.ac.uk

Alliance MBS Assessment & Progression Team

The team offers guidance on all aspects of your postgraduate taught assessment, including coursework and examinations.

Support and advice are most commonly given on:

Submission of assessment
Online and on campus exams
Quality assurance
Publication of marks
Academic malpractice
Appeals and conduct

The Assessment and Progression team is based in your Student Support Hub on the second floor of AMBS in room 2.091. If you need any in-person support, please visit the Hub and ask at reception to speak to a member of the team. We are available to assist you both in-person and online from Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm (except bank holidays and University closure days).

Phone: +44 161 529 3970

For queries related to assessments, contact us at: ambs.assessment@manchester.ac.uk

For queries related to appeals and conduct, contact us at: ambs.appealsandconduct@manchester.ac.uk