Progress Review Policy
The purpose of the policy is to:
- Ensure that students are making progress towards a timely
completion of their theses; - Ensure that the Faculty is providing adequate supervision, training
and resources for the research project, where applicable; - Ensure that the research has the ability to make a contribution to
knowledge in the field; and - Provide high quality feedback to the student on their completed and
planned thesis work.
The policy requires all postgraduate research students to
undergo a minimum of three student progress reviews during their
candidature, in addition to the annual progress report system currently
in place.
Student reviews will be undertaken in the format of conference
presentations, and will be completed annually at the relevant
Postgraduate Research Conference.
Students will be divided into three groupings:
- Humanities and Social Sciences;
- Biosciences; and
- Neuroscience, Psychology and Statistics.
- Each academic grouping will be
responsible for organising their own Postgraduate Research Conference,
with the assistance of the Research Administration Coordinator.
Student presentations will need to fulfill particular progress review
requirements, and these will differ according to the stage of
candidature.