NAMED PROGRAMME BY ALTERNATIVE FORM OF SUBMISSION
APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF A PROGRAMME BY AN ALTERNATIVE FORMAT OF
THESIS/DISSERTATION FOR:
Degrees in the Faculty of Graduate Research
To be completed electronically1 by the College
This form should be attached to a ‘Graduate Research Programme Set-up Form’ for this
programme, for further information please see the guidance available here.
Programme Title:
Why is this an appropriate title?
COLLEGE:
DEPARTMENT:
PROPOSAL ORIGINATOR:
It is important that clear information be presented to students specifying the requirements for this
named programme, as such, upon approval, information with regard to the programme must be
made available in your student handbook which shall include the following table:
Programme Title
Format of submission
(Specify the format in which submission must take place)
(A commentary is required if the thesis will fall under format B –
delete this row if not applicable.)
Commentary
(a) the presentation of part or all of the thesis in an alternative format e.g. it may
be a multimedia document (e.g. an element or the thesis in its entirety, which
is presented in a format appropriate perhaps for presentation at a
conference)
(b) A constructed text such as a piece of art, or a record of professional practice
in the form of a series of case-studies, which must be accompanied by a
commentary
Procedures
submission
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(specifying any requirements for how it will be submitted, i.e. in
what format will submission to examiners take place and in what
format will the final submission into ERIC take place, if in doubt
that the work is available in an appropriate format the matter
There is no need to provide a hard-copy of this form with signatures, providing that the email trail to
which the form is attached evidences approval from the appropriate members of staff.
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should be raised with the ERIC administrator who will confirm what
will be the best format to submit in, however most formats are
supportable.)
This information should be read in the context of the requirements laid out in the
‘Presentation of Theses/Dissertations for Degrees in the Faculty of Graduate Research:
Statement of Procedures’, which remain applicable to students on this programme, the only
exceptions to the procedures laid therein are the specific approved arrangements specified
in this table.
Please send this form to your College’s Graduate Research Administration Office, who will liaise
with the Dean of the College and Faculty Support and Policy Development to consider this
request, any queries with regard to the completion of this form should also be addressed to
Faculty Support and Policy Development.
College Graduate Research Administration Office: ____________________________________
Date: ___________________
Dean of College: ______________________________________________________________
Date: ___________________
Please pass to Faculty Support and Policy Development, who will liaise with the Dean of the
Faculty of Graduate Research.
Dean of Graduate Research Faculty: _______________________________________________
Date: ___________________
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Following approval the table above must be published as part of the College’s Postgraduate
Research Student handbook. No further changes may be made to this information, which
forms a subset of the ‘Presentation of Theses/Dissertations for Degrees in the Faculty of
Graduate Research: Statement of Procedures’ specific to this programme, without recourse
to further approval.
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