This information comes from the Graduate School webpage “The PhD thesis”
- Most SDU theses submitted to the Faculty of Health Sciences consist of an overview and a series of manuscripts (unpublished scientific reports) and/or publications; both parts are evaluated by the assessment committee
- A thesis based on a monograph is also possible
- The manuscripts are usually published as journal articles or have been written for peer reviewed journals
Format of the thesis:
- Usually written in Danish or English but must always include a summary in both Danish and English
- SDU has a Word template for PhD theses to ensure the right layout, fonts, logo, and colours for figures, etc. The template is available directly in Word through the Templafy add-on.
- Printing of the PhD thesis is by SDU's Graphic Center (Print & Sign)—they offer to help set up the thesis for printing; a standard SDU cover is used but you can choose the colour
- Look at Graphic Center’s website before you start writing
The aim of the overview is to demonstrate the student’s ability:
- To independently communicate the most important research results of the PhD project
- To discuss these in relation to national and international literature, i.e. how the PhD project contributes to the scientific field
- To reflect on the validity of the applied methods and results
- To link the manuscripts/publications to the overall aim of the project.