Throughout your research degree, it will be necessary for you to fulfill certain administrative requirements, such as completing various forms and staying informed about the progression of your HDR process in specific circumstances surrounding your candidature. This webpage provides a comprehensive overview of the HDR forms and policies that can offer a helpful guide as you navigate through your studies.
HDR forms and policies
Find the right form needed for your next HDR studies step
Before you commence
- Application for Credit for Prior Learning: Seeking recognition for a similar coursework subject completed before
Your first month
- Commencement of Candidature: Clarifying the goals and responsibilities of each person. Please complete this form with your principal supervisor, preferably within the first month
- First Month of Meetings Guide (previously called First Interview Checklist): Providing a checklist to the supervisors for all the matters that should be discussed with HDR candidates in the first two or three meetings
- HDR Space Allocation Request Form: Complete after discussing with your supervisor to request shared office space, laboratory access and access cards
Developing your research proposal
- Research Proposal Review (RPR) Form- PhD (For Doctoral candidates): Completed by the panel who evaluate your research proposal review
- Research Proposal Review (RPR) Form- MPhil (For MPhil candidates)
Initiating your research
- Application for Project Support: Organising some funding to support your research
Changes in your course enrolment or supervision
- Application for Leave of Absence: Suspending studies for one session
- Course Transfer Report: Changing course from a Doctorate to a Master by Research degree or vice versa
- Application for Late Withdrawal without Academic Penalty: Withdrawing from a coursework subject for reasons beyond your control
- Change of Supervisor Form: Changing supervision panel
- Reduced Study Load Form: Changing study load
Seeking extensions and fee waivers
- Domestic Postgraduate Tuition Award Application: Overtime domestic HDR candidates applying to extend candidature for one session without paying fees
Submitting your thesis
- Nomination of Examiner Form: Before submitting thesis, your principal supervisor must complete this form in consultation with you
- Head of Postgraduate Studies - Thesis Reporting Form (PhD & MPhil): When submitting thesis, the Head of Postgraduate Studies will complete this form
- Head of Postgraduate Studies - Thesis Reporting Form (MRes): (For Master of Research candidates)
- Online HDR Thesis Submission: Submitting your actual thesis
- Agreement for the Deposit of HDR Thesis in Digital Repository: Complete when submitting your final thesis
- Research Career Launch Scholarship: Completed by UOW Australian Government Research Training Program (AGRTP)/University Postgraduate Award (UPA) holders who have not exhausted all scholarship stipend payments at the time of submission of thesis
Other HDR forms for supervisors
- HDR scholarship application forms (UOW internal intranet)
- Probation forms (UOW internal intranet)
UOW HDR Policies
Many rules, guidelines and policies govern the HDR courses. If an issue raises the following relevant document may be useful.
- HDR award rules: Rules for admission, enrolment, examination, and course structure
- HDR Scholarship Policy: Rules and procedures around stipends, fee waivers, and other HDR scholarships
- HDR Progress Guidelines: The research proposal review, annual progress report, probation, and other matters around progress
- Higher Degree Research Supervision and Resources Policy: The role of supervisors as well as the minimum resources to which you are entitled
- HDR Thesis Preparation, Submission and Examination Policy: How to prepare and design a thesis and submit a thesis as well as how examiners should assess the thesis
- HDR Thesis by Compilation Guidelines: How to prepare a thesis that includes one or more authored publications
- Joint Doctoral Policy: Policies around joint PhD degrees only
- Academic Complaints Policy (for HDR students): Practices to follow if you want to resolve a complaint that relates to your course
Guidelines around HDR
- Higher Degree Research (HDR) Study by Distance Learning Guidelines: Presents insights to candidates who will study remotely
- Research Proposal Review Guidelines: Discusses the Research Proposal Review, in which a panel evaluates your research proposal
Documents around enrolment
- UOW Fees Policy: Discusses variations in fees across courses
Documents around academic integrity
- Academic Integrity & Plagiarism: Lists actions are regarded as breaches of academic integrity
- Research Integrity and Conduct Policy: Breaches, Concerns and Complaints: Clarifies how to conduct research responsibly
- Rules for Student Conduct and Discipline: Outlines which actions that are regarded as misconduct