Downloads

Documents for doctoral students can be downloaded below:

General information:

• Overview of the Doctoral Degrees Board’s (DDB) documentation
• PhD degree general rules
• PhD students’ examination guide
• Procedures for the Doctoral Degrees Board (DDB)

Intention to submit:

• Intention Service Request Checklist
• DDB08 – Thesis Open Access Suppression form (only applicable if you wish to suppress your thesis)
• DDB09 – Notice of intention to submit PhD thesis form (all faculties)
• DDB10 – PhD IP Assessment form (compulsory for the Science, Engineering & Built Environment and Health Sciences)
• DDB14 – Confidentiality on the nomination of examiners
• PeopleSoft reference guide – intention to submit

Inclusion of publications:

• Guidelines for the Inclusion of Publications in a Doctoral Thesis

Once you have been granted permission to include publications, you are required to include the following declaration in your thesis.

• Declaration for inclusion of publications

Submission of thesis for examination:

• Thesis Service Request Checklist
• Revised Thesis Service Request Checklist
• DDB11 – Declaration and Submission form (All faculties)
• PeopleSoft reference guide – upload thesis for examination
• Turnitin Plagiarism Declaration
• Citation guideline

Graduation library copy:

• Library Service Request Checklist
• PeopleSoft reference guide – upload library copy

Guidelines:

Doctoral students

• Open Access Policy
• PhD proposal guidelines
• Guidelines for PhD abstracts
• Points of interest when uploading your PhD thesis for examination
• Publications, copyright and your PhD thesis
• Avoiding plagiarism
• Turnitin for UCT Postgraduate Students

Supervisors and Doctoral students

• Guidelines for PhD candidates and supervisors

Supervisors

• Guidelines to Categories of Supervisor
• Guidelines for the Appointment of Supervisors of Doctoral Candidates
• Guidelines for Examination of a PhD Thesis