Graduate Induction Calendar - Oct 2025

Welcome to the School of Archaeology!

We have several induction sessions planned for the week commencing Monday 6 Oct.


Graduate Induction programme for the School of Archaeology - provisional programme

Date, time and location

Event

Who is required

Monday 6 October

 

 

10.00am - 1pm Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum 

School graduate induction

  • Welcome by the Head of School 
  • Welcome by the Directors of Graduate Studies
  • Health and Safety
  • Introduction to Library Services 
  • Graduate Archaeology at Oxford 
All new graduate students
Tuesday 7 October    
9am - 10am -  Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre

Introduction to Classical Archaeology

Course Inductions - The Course Directors will talk through the degree, give out handbooks and key information including supervisor allocations

All new DPhil and MSt/MPhil Classical Archaeology students
10am - 11am -  Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre MSt/MPhil course overview  MSt/MPhil Classical Archeology students only
11am - 1pm - Lecture Theatre, 1 South Parks Road MSc Archaeological Science  All MSc Archaeological Science masters students only
11.30am - 1pm, Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont Street MSc Archaeology All MSc Archaeology masters students only
2pm-4pm, Old Library, All Souls College Introduction to academic writing and referencing All new graduate students

Thursday 9 October

 

 
2pm - 4pm, Lecture Room, Meet in the Student Hub room on the ground floor of the Institute of Archaeology,36 Beaumont Streeet Ashmolean Museum activity All new Archaeology and Classical Archaeology students
From 2pm onwards - meet in the Common Room at 1 South Parks Road 

Small group tours of the RLAHA 

  • Chronology 
  • Materials 
  • aDNA 
  • Tephra 
All new Archaeological Science students 
4pm - 6pm, Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub, Jesus College, Market Street, Oxford.
 
The Social Sciences Division invites first year doctoral students to a welcome event and drinks reception. Register here. All new DPhil students 
Friday 10 October    

10am - 11.30am. Common Room, 1 South Parks Road

Coffee and questions

All graduate students welcome