In Summary

• Your approved entry form should be submitted to the Doctoral School by the Department PGR Lead at least two months before submission

• Your approved examiners and independent chair are formally invited to examine your thesis

• An electronic copy of the thesis should be emailed to the Doctoral School. If your examiners request a hard copy, we will let you know

• If your examiners and independent chair have accepted the invitation to examine and you have signed up for the current academic year, your thesis will be dispatched to them within 3-5 working days

• Your supervisor and independent chair should arrange the viva to take place within three months

• The viva examination takes place
  
  
• On receipt of the viva report from your examiners, the Doctoral School confirms the outcome of the viva to you by email

Please see the links below for more details.