Graduate Studies
PhD | Dissertation preparation | Submission and leave to defer submission
Submission and leave to defer submission
Two copies of your dissertation, three copies of a summary, and various pieces of information should be submitted to the Board of Graduate Studies. Please refer to the BGS webpages for full details: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/gradstud/current/submitting/phd/.) The Board will pass the dissertation to the Modern Languages Graduate Studies Office, from where it will be despatched to the two Examiners that the Degree Committee has appointed. At the same time you will be told by the Graduate Studies Office who the Examiners are to be, which gives you the opportunity to acquaint yourself with what they have written and their possible response to your work. You may submit either softbound or hardbound copies of your dissertation. You should bear in mind however that it is a condition for proceeding to the Degree that you submit a hard bound copy for the University Library. If you submit a soft bound copy in the first instance, you will not be asked to produce the final hard bound copy until after receiving a letter of approval for the Degree from the Secretary of the Board of Graduate Studies. You are expected to submit your dissertation by the end of the vacation following your twelveth term of research. A very special case will need to be made for any deferral that takes a student into his or her 5th year of PhD work and deferrals beyond the 4th year will not normally be allowed. Students will be removed automatically from the Register of Graduate Students at the end of their 4th year. Although this does not preclude the possibility of being reinstated at a later date when the dissertation is ready for submission it does mean that the student will be deprived of his or her student status (which may have visa implications) and he or she will not be entitled to use university facilities, such as the University Library, university emailing system, and the University Card. See Code of Practice.next |The viva
