Documents for doctoral students can be downloaded below:
General information:
- Overview of the Doctoral Degrees Board’s (DDB) documentation
- PhD degree general rules
- PhD students’ examination guide
- Procedures for the Doctoral Degrees Board (DDB)
- FAQ - Oral Examination Pilot
Intention to submit:
- Intention Service Request Checklist
- DDB08 – Thesis Open Access Suppression form (only applicable if you wish to suppress your thesis)
- DDB09 – Notice of intention to submit PhD thesis form (all faculties)
- DDB10 – PhD IP Assessment form (compulsory for the Science, Engineering & Built Environment and Health Sciences)
- DDB14 – Confidentiality on the nomination of examiners
- PeopleSoft reference guide – intention to submit
- FHS Ethics Checklist
Inclusion of publications:
Once you have been granted permission to include publications, you are required to include the following declaration in your thesis.
Submission of thesis for examination:
- Thesis Service Request Checklist
- Revised Thesis Service Request Checklist
- DDB11 – Declaration and Submission form (All faculties)
- PeopleSoft reference guide – upload thesis for examination
- Turnitin Plagiarism Declaration
- Citation guideline
- FAQ - Oral Examination Pilot
- FHS Ethics Checklist
Graduation library copy:
Guidelines:
Doctoral students
- Open Access Policy
- PhD proposal guidelines
- Guidelines for PhD abstracts
- Points of interest when uploading your PhD thesis for examination
- Publications, copyright and your PhD thesis
- Avoiding plagiarism
- How to interpret a Turnitin originality report
- Turnitin for UCT Postgraduate Students
Supervisors and Doctoral students
Supervisors