Supervisors and advisers
The supervision of graduate students is formally the responsibility of the University, not of the College. So the relevant Faculty Board, depending on your subject, appoints an academic supervisor for each graduate student. This supervisor will not always be a Fellow of Balliol. But in addition, each graduate student is assigned a Balliol Tutor as a College Adviser.
Frequency of contact with supervisor
Graduates are expected to work to a considerable extent on their own.
New Arts graduates reading for the MLitt or the DPhil may see their supervisor perhaps half a dozen times in their first term. Later on, when the student is well settled into research, sessions with the supervisor will be less frequent.
Those reading for degrees which are awarded, in part or in whole, on the basis of examination, will have lectures and seminars specifically tailored to their courses. They will have contact with their supervisor but they will less of them than most undergraduates do of their tutors.
Science graduates who are working in a laboratory normally see much more of their supervisor than do Arts graduates – in many cases, they are in daily contact.