Policies and Submission of thesis

Handbooks & Policies for Supervisors

• Admissions
• Annual Progress Review
• Apply to be a Supervisor
• Human Ethics Clearance
• Foundations of Research Supervision
• PhD Award Sub-Committee
• Resources and Support
• Sydney Law School Handbook
• Sydney Law School - Supervisors Manual (Refer to faculty share drive - staff only)

Handbooks & Policies for Students

• Academic Board
• Annual Progress Review - mandatory
• Help manual and style guide for postgraduate students
• Human Ethics Clearance
• Submission of thesis
• Sydney Law School Handbook
• Theses@Sydney (Library)

All University policy documents relating to higher research degrees are available from the Policy Register. Please select “keyword” then enter Ph.D or Thesis in the search engine.

Please also visit the Graduate Studies Office for more information.

Submission of thesis

Notice of intention to submit thesis

Students are requested to give three months’ notice of the expected date of submission of their thesis by submitting the Notice of intention to submit thesis (doc) to allow the School to make arrangements for the timely appointment of examiners

Binding

For the purpose of examination, it may be cost effective to submit the thesis in a temporary binding rather than a permanent form. If bound in a temporary form, this should be strong enough to withstand handling and postage. The preferred form of temporary binding is ‘perfect binding’.

A thesis submitted in temporary binding must have a label affixed to front to cover clearly identifying the name of the candidate the title of the thesis and the year of submission. Ringback or spiral binding is NOT acceptable.

Length of thesis

It is important to remember that the word limit for the thesis, excluding appendices, is 100,000 words (PhD), 75,000 words (SJD) and 50,000 words (Master’s). The total word count for the thesis should exclude the bibliography, footnote numbers and footnote citations, but discursive footnotes and quotations are included.

Number of copies

The number of bound copies required varies from degree to degree. The resolutions for the PhD require the submission of four copies and SJD/Master’s degrees require three copies.

After all steps of the examination process have been finalised, students will be advised to submit one copy of their corrected thesis printed on acid-free (“archival” or “thermal”) paper in permanent binding with hard cover.

Examples of awarded theses can be found in Rare Books Section of Fisher Library

Printing Service

The University Publishing Service is located on Darlington campus. For enquiries, please contact UPS

For further information, please refer to the Graduate Studies Office