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Postgraduate research
Overview
Starting your research
Induction and registration
Training plan
Supervision meetings
PGR-supervisor agreement
During your research
First formal progress review
Transfer
Annual progress review
Postgraduate research policies and procedures
Postgraduate researcher training and research skills
How long does a research degree take
PGRs on split site, distance learning and dual award programmes
Postgraduate fees
Support for PGRs
Postgraduate research support and wellbeing
Progress and attendance monitoring for postgraduate researchers
Taking time out of your research
Documentary evidence of your absence
Maternity, paternity and parental leave for postgraduate researchers
If you are unwell during your research degree
Progress support process
Making changes
Postgraduate researcher wellbeing programme
Research practice
Overview
Good research practice
Research practice training and tests
Ethics review process
Data management plans
Health and safety in postgraduate research
Thesis and viva
Overview
Understand the submission and examination process
Complete the examination entry workflow
Submit your thesis for examination
What to consider between submission and the viva
The viva
Understand viva outcomes
What happens after the viva
Submit your final eThesis
Resubmit your research degree after a referral
Get your research degree award and graduate
Explore multi-part thesis submissions
Doctoral college
Contact your Graduate School
Committees and representation
Heads of Graduate Schools and Postgraduate Research Studies
Postgraduate researcher funding and finance
Postgraduate researcher travel and purchasing
Postgraduate research diversity
Complaints, Appeals and Disciplinary Matters
202425_PGR_Turnitin_Protocol (Download PDF 225.46 KB)
202425_FINAL_PGR_Academic_Misconduct_Procedures (Download PDF 288.74 KB)
202324_PGR_Academic_Misconduct_Procedures (Download PDF 312.96 KB)
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