Postgraduate Research
Timetable of Study
By the end of the first academic year
- All PhD students should have completed a satisfactory extended proposal.
Students will be required to defend their proposals to a sub-committee of the
PhD Progress Committee towards the end of their first year of study. All
required coursework and examinations should be satisfactorily completed.
- ‘Journal based’ PhD research proposal in complete form and draft of
another chapter. PhD students will normally also be required to have completed
an extended literature
review by June of their
first year of study.
- All students should have decided on a detailed timetable of work for each of
the three years of their minimum period of study
First term of second Year
- Confirmation from MPhil to PhD
- Confirmation of the type of thesis to be completed
By the end of the second academic year
- Students should have completed the literature review, started on
substantive research, and produced at least two further chapters of the
thesis in draft form.
- ‘Journal based’ draft of at least two further chapters, at
least one of them being a research paper.
- A revised timetable should be approved by the supervisor to
ensure that the thesis will be completed in draft form by the
end of the third year of registration.
By the end of the third year
- ‘Journal based’ draft of all three research papers.
- Students should have completed drafts of all of the substantive chapters of
the thesis. (Note that failure to do so will result in an extension to the
minimum period of study.)
- Presented at least one paper to the PhD Colloquium. (Note that failure
to do so will result in an extension of the minimum period of study.)
- Submit your substantive chapters electronically on a USB
stick/device.
Completion Year
- Revise and rewrite chapters
- Submit the approved thesis to an internal reader for comments during the
summer term (final corrections over the summer)
- Submit thesis before the end of the academic year
- Thesis no longer than 80,000 words
PhD students are expected to have completed their PhD within four years of
entering the programme and will be support and monitored to ensure that they can
meet this deadline.
Last modified on 28 February 2012