DISS: External Supervisors

External people (where this includes any staff not from the School of Informatics at UoE) can propose Informatics MSc projects, as well as co-supervise self-proposed MSc projects (i.e., projects proposed by a student himself/herself).

External supervisors will usually need an internal staff member as a co-supervisor. So we advise you to get in touch with one of our faculty who works in a subject area similar to your project. People. For external supervisors who supervise larger numbers of students (cluster projects), please contact the MSc project manager (msc-project-mgr@inf.ed.ac.uk) if you need help with finding internal co-supervisors.

Note: Different from previous years, we do not have an iFriend system to register external supervisors. The best course of action is to have the internal cosupervisor (which is a must-have) do the entire process of proposal, bidding, and allocation, and communicate directly with them, a. If you do need access to DPMT, contact the MSc Project Coordinator.

How to Co-supervise a Student Self-proposed MSc Project

The procedure is similar to that described above. You need to have an internal cosupervisor as a proxy to register interest. It is usually the case that such students contact the external supervisor beforehand.