Student Requirements - PhD UoD
Following the Complete Researcher Launchpad OPD training day yesterday, I've reviewed the Research Degrees Quality code.
SECTION 3.4: RESPONSIBILITIES OF STUDENTS
The responsibilities of students include but are not confined to:
(a) accepting ultimate responsibility for their own academic work, the
development of their own original research and their own progress towards
submission for the degree;
(b) ensuring that they are familiar with relevant aspects of the University’s
regulations, including degree regulations, policies on plagiarism and academic
dishonesty, research ethics, health and safety;
(c) participating in relevant training programmes, including research integrity training;
(d) undertaking two weeks of generic skills training per year:
(Students are strongly advised to discuss their workshop choices with their
supervisors);
(e) agreeing a schedule of meetings (at least monthly for full time students) with
their supervisors and attending those meetings;
(f) discussing with their supervisors the type of guidance and comment they find most
helpful;
(g) taking the initiative in raising problems or difficulties, however elementary they
may seem with their supervisors or the research postgraduate adviser;
(h) maintaining progress on their research in accordance with the timetable agreed
with their supervisors including, in particular, submitting written material where
required in sufficient time to allow for comments and discussion before embarking
on the next stage of their research;
(i) keeping a record of meetings with their supervisors, which should include a
note of items for action;
(j) providing as required, brief formal reports to the Thesis Monitoring
Committee, with the assistance of their research supervisors;
(k) deciding when they wish to submit their thesis for examination, taking account of
the views of their supervisors (which are advisory only);and
(i) completing, in agreement with their supervisor, the Thesis Deposit Agreement and
archiving in Discovery the final examined copy of their thesis.
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