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HDR forms and policies

HDR Forms

Find the right form needed for your next HDR studies step

Before you commence

  • : Seeking recognition for a similar coursework subject completed before

Your first month

  • : Clarifying the goals and responsibilities of each person. Please complete this form with your principal supervisor, preferably within the first month
  • (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
  • : Complete after discussing with your supervisor to request shared office space, laboratory access and access cards

Developing your research proposal

  • : Completed by the panel who evaluate your research proposal review

Initiating your research

  • : Organising some funding to support your research

Changes in your course enrolment or supervision

  • : Suspending studies for one session 
  • : Transferring to a different HDR course, changing the delivery mode of the current HDR course, or changing campuses, while remaining under the same Principal Supervisor
  • : Withdrawing from a coursework subject for reasons beyond your control
  • : Changing supervision panel
  • Reduced Study Load Form: Changing study load

Seeking extensions and fee waivers

Submitting your thesis

  • : Before submitting thesis, your principal supervisor must complete this form in consultation with you
  • : When submitting thesis, the Head of Postgraduate Studies will complete this form
  • : (For Master of Research candidates)
  • : Submitting your actual thesis
  • : Complete when submitting your final thesis
  • : Completed by ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½app 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 

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ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½app HDR Policies

Many rules, guidelines and policies govern the HDR courses. If an issue raises the following relevant document may be useful.

    • Rules for admission, enrolment, examination, and course structure
    • : Rules and procedures around stipends, fee waivers, and other HDR scholarships
    • : The research proposal review, annual progress report, probation, and other matters around progress
    • : The role of supervisors as well as the minimum resources to which you are entitled 
    • : How to prepare and design a thesis and submit a thesis as well as how examiners should assess the thesis
    • : Policies around joint PhD degrees only 
    • : Practices to follow if you want to resolve a complaint that relates to your course
    • Presents insights to candidates who will study remotely
    • : Outlines the process for acknowledging authorship and research contributions.

Documents around enrolment 

  • : Discusses variations in fees across courses

Documents around academic integrity 

  • Academic integrity and plagiarism
  • : Clarifies how potential breaches of research integrity are managed
  •  Clarifies how to conduct research responsibly
  • : Outlines which actions that are regarded as misconduct