PhD Handbook
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Admission
- Candidature
- Change of address
- Initial enrolment
- Backdating of initial enrolment
- Re-enrolment
- Termination of candidature after failure to re-enrol
- Enrolment in additional subjects and courses
- Purpose of confirmation
- The Confirmation Committee
- Confirmation Process
- Extension of Probationary Candidature
- Formal Warning of Unsatisfactory Progress
- Preparing for Confirmation of Candidature
- Progress reports
- Completion report form
- Period of Candidature
- Recreation leave
- Variations to Candidature
- Leave of absence
- Study away from the University
- Change in enrolment status between full-time and part-time
- Change of project
- Change of supervisor/department
- Early submission of thesis
- Extension of period of candidature
- Lapsed candidature in good standing
- Reinstatement of candidature
- Withdrawal from the degree
- Departure from conditions of candidature
- Unsatisfactory progress
- Advice to candidates about problems during candidature
- Student grievances
- Supervision
- Supervisor training
- Advisory Committee
- Definitions
- Research Guidelines
- PhD Thesis
- Preparation of a PhD thesis
- Questions to consider when writing a PhD thesis
- Standard of examination of Creative Work
- Editing of theses
- Completion Seminar
- Writing a thesis in a language other than English or under a Cotutelle arrangement
- Word limit
- Published material
- Format of the thesis
- Order of contents
- Thesis preparation and binding
- Notice of intention to submit thesis
- Thesis submission
- Final form of the thesis
- Making your thesis available on the University of Melbourne ePrints Repository (UMER)
- Manuals on the presentation of theses
- Preparation of a PhD thesis
- Examination
- Nomination of examiners
- Chairperson of examiners
- Duration of examination
- Examiner's report
- Amendments to a thesis
- Minor amendments
- Revisions
- Disagreement between examiners
- Resubmission
- Notification of pass result
- Confidentiality of names of examiners
- Library Release Authorisation and copyright of theses
- Restricted access to a thesis
- Chancellor's Prize
- Appendix A: Guidelines on PhD candidature for departments, supervisors and candidates
- A. Responsibilities of academic departments to PhD students
- B. Principles for PhD supervision
- C. Responsibilities of candidates
- D. Applicants for admission to PhD candidature
- E. Code of Conduct for Research
- F. Candidates based at outside institutions
- Guidelines for supervision of PhD candidates based at outside institutions
- Appendix B - Legislation and prescriptions
- R3.60 - Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
- Prescriptions of the Academic Board pursuant to Regulation R3.60 governing the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
- Procedures for the Examination of PhD Theses Pursuant to Regulation R3.60 and Statute 12.5 as Prescribed by the Academic Board
- Statute 11.3 - Enrolment for a Higher Degree
- Statute 11.5 - Unsatisfactory Progress
- Statute 12.5 - Examination of Theses for Higher Degrees