Research students

Updated Postgraduate Assessment Regulations for Research Degrees, student policies and associated guidance.

Updated

Postgraduate assessment regulations for research degrees

Minor amendments to regulations around conflict of interest; schedules of adjustment and annual reviews; borderlines on MSc by Research programmes. The Key Changes document below provides a full list of the amendments.

Postgraduate Assessment Regulations for Research Degrees

 

Code of Practice for Supervisors and Research Students

The Code of Practice has been updated for 2026/27.

Code of Practice for Supervisors and Research Students

New

Postgraduate Research Thesis Guidance

A new, comprehensive guidance document has been published, which incorporates content from several previous documents: Thesis Format Guidance; Including Publications in Postgraduate Research Theses; Lay Summary in Theses; Signed Declaration in a Postgraduate Research Thesis. The Lay Summary Form will also no longer be used.

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