Research Degrees in the Saïd Business School

• 1. Governance

The DPhil in Finance and the DPhil in Management (or the DPhil in Management Studies for those having started before MT2019) shall be under the supervision of the DPhil Committee of the Saïd Business School. 

[For2. Attendance requirements

The DPhil programmes shall be offered on a full-time basis only. Full-time students startingare fromrequired MTto 2015meet andthe beforeresidence MTrequirements 2016:set out in §6 of the General Regulations for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 

 13. Probationer Research Students  

Further details of these requirements are set out in the D.Phil. Notes for Guidance.

Two assessors nominated by the student and his/her supervisor and appointed by the D.Phil. Committee will examine the student by viva voce and submit a written transfer report to the D.Phil. Committee with recommendations as to whether or not the student should be allowed to transfer to D.Phil. status.

The D.Phil. Committee will consider the application and the recommendations of the assessors and in light of this will decide whether to approve the transfer of status, or approve admission to M.Litt. status (in the case that the Committee is not satisfied that the candidate should be allowed to transfer), or approve an extension of time in order to allow the candidate to carry out further research and make revisions to his/her proposal and to resubmit at a later date (but before the PRS status period expires). The committee may request additional written work (such as a revised research proposal) or other evidence, and/or appoint an additional assessor, and/or state that the student should be re-examined.

3. Confirmation of D.Phil. status

• Students will normally be expected to applyachieve for their ConfirmationTransfer of Status by the end ofin their sixthfourth term after admission. 

  Applications Theyshould be submitted to the DPhil Committee and will comprise the following:

  (a) a completed transfer of status form;

  (b) a completed Training Needs Analysis form;

  (c) a substantial piece of written work relevant to the proposed thesis as specified for each stream in the Course Handbook.

  To successfully achieve Transfer of Status, students must applyhave satisfactorily passed the appropriate assessment requirements as set out in section 3 above. In cases where a student is required to re-sit/resubmit an assessment item, a deferral of Transfer of Status will be granted automatically.

  Full details of requirements can be found in the Course Handbook. 

  The DPhil Committee will appoint two assessors who will read the work, interview the student and submit a recommendation to the committee in a written report. The DPhil Committee will then decide whether Transfer of Status will be approved.

  A student whose first application for theirTransfer of Status is not approved (including where the outcome is a recommendation to transfer to the MLitt) is permitted to make one further application and will be granted an extension of one term to Probationer Research Student status if necessary. If after a second attempt, the DPhil Committee can neither approve transfer to the DPhil or to the MLitt, the student will be removed from the Register of Graduate Students. 

  5. Confirmation of DPhil status 

  Students will normally be expected to achieve Confirmation of Status by the end of their ninth term after admission. 

  Applications forshould confirmationbe ofsubmitted status as a Student forto the DegreeDPhil ofCommittee Doctorand of Philosophy shallwill comprise the following:

  • (a) a confirmationcompleted Confirmation of status applicationStatus form (GSO14) signed by the candidate’s supervisor and an appropriate officer of the candidate’s college;

  • (b) a comprehensive outline of the treatment of the thesis topic including details of progress made and an indication, where possible, of the anticipated timetable for submission;

  • (c) two draft chapters totalling no more than 25,000 words which include material particularly central to the thesis.;

  (c) a substantial thesis outline and list of contents indicating where the submitted material is located in the thesis, a draft abstract and a glossary of key terms;

• Further(d) details of theseprogress made together with a timetable for completion;

• a completed Training Needs Analysis form.
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• (e) Sections (b) and (c) together should not exceed 35,000 words.

• Full details of requirements arecan setbe outfound in the DCourse Handbook.Phil. Notes for Guidance. 

  The application must be submitted to the D.Phil.DPhil Committee and will be considered byappoint two assessors nominated by the student and supervisor and appointed by D.Phil. Committee. These may be the same assessors as were chosen for the transfer of status, but assessors selected at this stage may not be chosen for the final viva voce. The assessorswho will read the work, interview the candidate (examine viva voce)student and makesubmit a recommendation to the committee in a written report. The DPhil Committee will then decide whether Confirmation of Status will be approved.

  IfA thestudent committeewhose doesfirst application for Confirmation of Status is not considerapproved thatis thepermitted candidate’sto progressmake warrantsone confirmationfurther ofapplication, statusnormally itwithin mayone either recommend resubmissionterm of the original application at a later date within the normal timetable, orand approvewill be granted an extension of D.Philone term if necessary. statusIf inafter orderthe tosecond allowattempt timethe forDPhil resubmissionCommittee ofcan neither approve the application, ornor recommendapprove transfer to M.Litt.the statusMLitt, or reject the applicationstudent will be removed from the Register of Graduate Students. 

• 46. Integrated Thesis (Three paper route)

• A D.Phil.DPhil thesis may be accepted for examination if comprised of a minimum of three academic papers of publishable quality. Such a body of work shall be deemed acceptable provided it represents a coherent and focused body of research. It should include an Introduction, a Survey of Literature, and a Conclusion. Current word limits and conditions are detailed in the D.Phil.Course Notes for GuidanceHandbook.

  A D.Phil.DPhil Thesisthesis submitted under this rubric may include joint publications, providing that, aside from the candidate, none of the named co-authors is a student. Where a joint publication with another student is included, thisthe candidate must becertify in addition tothat the minimumpaper has not been used as part of three academic papers required to be included in the D.Phil.co-author’s thesis submission. Where joint publications are included, the supervisor must certify and all co-authors must certify in writing to the Director of Graduate Studies of the School that the majority of that work represents the work of the candidate.

  CandidatesA candidate wishing to proceed in this manner must obtain permission from his/hertheir supervisor, the Director of Graduate Studies, and the D.Phil.DPhil Committee and must be approved at the time of confirmationConfirmation forof D.Phil.DPhil status. Evidence must be submitted at the time permission is sought that at least one of theThe three academic papers hassubmitted should have been written for publication, been submitted tofor anpublication identifiedand/or journal, if not yet accepted orbeen published.

  If, after a petitionpermission is acceptedgranted, a candidate wishes to revert to a standard D.Phil.DPhil thesis format the candidate must lodge a petition with his/her supervisor,seek the Schoolapproval of their supervisor and D.Phil.the DPhil Committee showing good cause for the change.

• 57. Thesis

  Theses for the Degree of M.Litt.MLitt which exceed 50,000 words and those for the Degree of D.Phil.DPhil which exceed 100,000 words, excluding the bibliography, are liable to be rejected unless candidates have, with the support of their supervisors, secured the prior dispensation of the boardDPhil of Graduate StudiesCommittee to exceed this limit.