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HDR forms and policies

HDR Forms

Find the right HDR Form for your next step

Commencing your candidature:

  • : (previously called Commencement of Candidature): Facilitating discussion between HDR candidates and supervisors regarding mutual expectations, roles and responsibilities, candidature requirements, available support, and other key matters that should be discussed during the early stages of candidature. Completion of this checklist is a compulsory milestone and must be undertaken in consultation with your supervisor(s) within the first six months of candidature.
  • : Complete after discussing with your supervisor to request shared office space, laboratory access and access cards
  • : Seeking recognition for a similar coursework subject completed before

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 UOW Australian Government Research Training Program (AGRTP)/ÁñÁ«ÊÓÆµapp Postgraduate Award (UPA) holders who have not exhausted all scholarship stipend payments at the time of submission of thesis

Other HDR forms for supervisors 

  • (UOW internal intranet)
  • (UOW internal intranet)

UOW 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