Arrivals weekend is Friday 23, Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 of September and Welcome Week runs from Monday 26 September to Friday 30 September 2022.
Find out where to go
Look at our campus map to get directions to your sessions.
University Life
You must attend a University Life session taking place over arrivals weekend. You can find your time slot on this page. It’s important that you attend this.
Your timetable
Monday 26 September
Start | Finish | Location | Description |
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10.00am | 11.05am | Milner Centre Seminar Room | Department Welcome and Introduction to the Masters Programmes |
11.15am | 12.05pm | Leave from Milner Centre | Campus Tour |
12.15pm | 2.05pm | Claverton Rooms | Buffet Lunch |
2.15pm | 3.05pm | Chancellor's Building 3.9 | Meet your personal tutor |
Tuesday 27 September
Start | Finish | Location | Description |
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10.15am | 11.05am | Chancellor's Building 4.16 | Academic skills workshop |
11.15am | 12.05pm | 1 East 3.9 | Library Introduction |
1.15pm | 2.05pm | 1 East 3.9 | Introduction to moodle |
2.15pm | 3.05pm | Chancellor's Building 3.10 | Optional Units (Microbiology - Part 1 - Plant Infection and immunity) |
2.15pm | 3.05pm | Chancellor's Building 3.11 | Optional Units (Biotechnology) |
2.15pm | 3.05pm | Chancellor's Building 3.6 | Optional Units (Bioinformatics) |
2.15pm | 3.05pm | Chancellor's Building 3.7 | Optional Units (Medical Biosciences - Part 1) |
Wednesday 28 September
Start | Finish | Location | Description |
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10.00am | 10:45am | 4South 1.15 | Health and Safety induction |
11.00am | 3.00pm | Campus | Sports Clubs and Societies |
2.15pm | 3.05pm | MS Teams | Be the change - interactive online session - Challenge your own thoughts and behaviours to help end all forms of harassment |
3.15pm | 4.05pm | MS Teams | Optional Units (Microbiology - Part 2 - Infectious diseases) |
3.15pm | 4.05pm | MS Teams | Optional Units (Medical Biosciences Part 2) |
Thursday 29 September
Start | Finish | Location | Description |
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9.15am | 10.05 | 1West 2.03 | Academic Tutorial: Assessments Preparation & Plagiarism |
10.15am | 11.05am | 1West 2.03 | Group working tutorial |
11.15am | 12.05pm | 1West 2.02 | Meet your programme tutor (MicroBiology) followed by group photo |
11.15am | 12.05pm | 1West 3.103 | Meet your programme tutor (Biotechnology) followed by group photo |
11.15am | 12.05pm | 1WestNorth 3.10 | Meet your programme tutor (Bioinformatics) followed by group photo |
11.15am | 12.05pm | 1WestNorth 3.12 | Meet your programme tutor (Medical Bioscience) followed by group photo |
12:10 pm | 13:00 pm | MS Teams | Optional Units (Applied Data SciencePart 2) |
1.15pm | 2.45pm | Science Marquee behind 8 West | Coffee Social with PGBio |
4.15pm | 5.05pm | Zoom | Climate Literacy (Online session) |
Friday 30 September
Start | Finish | Location | Description |
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10.00am | 4.00pm | Roman Baths | Roman Bath Tours with PGBio. Please sign up here for a tour by Friday 16 September. |
5.15pm | 7.00pm | 5 West 2.3 | Postgraduate quiz |
Please check this page regularly as sometimes we need to change the times and locations of Welcome events. During Welcome, we would recommend you check your timetable at the start of each day.
As well as these compulsory events, you can also get involved in optional activities run by The SU.
Help with Technology
If you have any problems with IT hardware and software, contact our IT helpdesk. You can also purchase equipment from them.
Link to other students on your course
We have set up a Microsoft Team for your course. You can use this to ask questions and start to get to know the people on your course. You will be able to access this from early September.