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Informatics Graduate School Managing Your PhD Informatics Graduate School Welcome slide and then slides for Don to outline PhD milestones

University Regulations: www. drps. ed. ac University Regulations: www.drps.ed.ac.uk/11-12/regulations/postgrad.php The grounds for award for the degree of PhD by research are: Bob to outline some of the key milestones and targets that PhD students need to be aware of from the start of the PhD. What is it that you need to have done to get a PhD? These are described in the grounds for award of a PhD. These are the targets for you to aim for – that you can produce and defend a PhD thesis that meets these requirements. Three slides follow that spell out the details of the grounds for award of a PhD and what they mean. ACTION – JT check slides 3-6 are still up to date

Grounds for award of PhD The candidate must have demonstrated that they are capable of: pursuing original research in the field of study relating particular research projects to the general body of knowledge in the field presenting the results of the research in a critical and scholarly way

PhD Assessment/Examination Based only on your thesis Normally, by oral examination

Grounds for award The thesis must: Be an original work (ie. your text) Make a significant contribution to knowledge in or understanding of the field of study (how to measure significant …) Contain material worthy of publication (doesn’t have to be published, but …)

Grounds for award - cont. show adequate knowledge of the field of study and relevant literature (ie. Literature review) show the exercise of critical judgement with regard to both the candidate’s work and that of other scholars in the same general field

Grounds for award – cont. Contain material which presents a unified body of work such as could reasonably be achieved on the basis of three years postgraduate study and research Be satisfactory in its literary presentation

Grounds for award – cont. Give full and adequate references Have a coherent structure understandable to a scholar in the same general field with regard to intentions, background, methods and conclusions

PhD Assessment/Examination Based only on your thesis Oral examination It’s essentially PASS/FAIL (and corrections are possible)

The first step: Thesis proposal Aims: Clearly defined and appropriate research topic Appropriate and realistic research plan Supervisory team and required resources are in place Progress so far is satisfactory Submission in month 9 (or month 15-18 if part-time)

Thesis proposal Assessment Format Report (15-25 pages) Oral presentation to Review Panel (Supervisors and at least one other) – procedure depends on Institute Written feedback to you, with copy to Graduate School