Essential information
What you need to know when you are completing your PhD.
Here are the links that you'll need if you're in the final year of your research degree
- Only for External examiners overseas: Guidance for best practice on conducting vivas by electronic means (updated May 2021)
- Guidance for face-to-face vivas from September 2020 onwards
- Terms and Conditions
- Managing your registration details, including updating bank details
- Progression requirements
- Sickness, maternity or paternity leave
- Applying for suspension of studies
- Withdrawal from studies
- Intention to submit thesis [link to Learn]
- Submitting a thesis
- Preparing to graduate
Research resources apply to the governance and conduct, and organisation and management of your research
- Code of Practice for research programmes
- Research ethics
- Supervision arrangements
- Progress reviews
- Plagiarism and how to avoid it
- Copyright guidance (intranet) - Also 'Copyright and Your Thesis' online workshop on Learn
- Examination process
Development resources will benefit you in a strategic way
- Careers Network for researchers
- Library Research Support
- Copyright guidance
- Scholarly Communications pages (will need University username and password to access some pages)
- Research Central module on Learn (will need your University username and password to access this and you need to self-enrol the first time you access it)