Conditions for submission of thesis
The PhD thesis, and all appendices required, must be submitted to the faculty’s PhD administration office.
The following conditions must be met before a PhD thesis may be registered as being submitted to the Faculty and submitted for assessment:
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seven copies of the PhD thesis, which belong to the Faculty, must be submitted. The copies will be distributed to the following parties as follows: the assessment committee (3), the principal supervisor (1), the department (1) and the University of Southern Denmark Library (1);
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the PhD thesis must be submitted in bound copies, i.e. attached to the document’s spine as a minimum;
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the PhD thesis must include an abstract both in Danish and in English which must be placed in the beginning of the thesis;
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co-author statements must be packed in sets and enclosed with each of the seven copies;
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a library form must be completed and enclosed;
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the author must have registered his/her thesis in PU:RE and set the status to “submitted”;
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an electronic copy of the student’s life biography for use in the Faculty’s annual report must be submitted to the PhD administration office;
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a positive recommendation from the principal supervisor concerning the entire course of PhD studies, including the completion of the individual components of the Research and Study Plan, must be enclosed with the thesis. The principal supervisor must involve any project supervisor or other supervisors in composing the statement.
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a brief popular scientific abstract of the PhD thesis must be submitted as a text file to the PhD administration office. The abstract must be written using widely understood scientific terminology and comprise about one A4 page.
The abstract must be in Danish wherever possible. The abstract will be published on the Faculty’s website after the PhD degree has been conferred by the Academic Board.
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A reporting form for Statistics Denmark must be filled in and submitted with the thesis. The latest version of the form is found on Statistics Denmark’s website.
A receipt acknowledging the submission will be issued, provided that the thesis meets the Faculty’s requirements and that all submission conditions have been met.
If in his/her statement, the principal supervisor states that the PhD programme was not completed satisfactorily, it must be possible for the author to present his/her remarks to the principal supervisor’s statement within at least two weeks.
In the event that the PhD student’s principal supervisor issues a negative statement, the head of the PhD School will assess whether the entire PhD programme has been completed satisfactorily and will base this assessment on the principal supervisor’s statement, any remarks by the author and the regular assessments.
The thesis may only be considered for assessment if the entire PhD programme has been satisfactorily completed: the principal supervisor’s statement must be positive, courses equivalent to around 30 ECTS credits must have been passed, knowledge-dissemination requirements must have been met and a change of research environment must have occurred pursuant to the internal rules for this.