The thesis after the viva

It is the responsibility of the Chair to inform the student of the scope and deadline for completion of the required corrections. Where the candidate has passed, but the work requires minor corrections, amendments or typographical corrections, the Chair should arrange with the candidate for the necessary corrections to be made.

The Chair should send the completed Report and Result form and the Interim Report Form to the Graduate School. The forms must be completed, to include the individual examiners reports, a joint report and must be signed by the examiners, the student and the chair where required.

Candidates’ results must not be released until any minor or typographical corrections required have been carried out and the final approved version of the thesis has been received and checked.

It is the responsibility of candidates to make the required corrections within the specified time. Chairs should check that these tasks have been performed satisfactorily and in a timely fashion to avoid delays in awarding degrees.

Any notes or marginal comments made by examiners in theses must be erased prior to their deposit in Libraries.

The final version thesis will be sent to the AU Repository by the Graduate School along with the electronic Thesis Declaration Form.

Theses so deposited will be made available by the University to external repositories and search tools including the digital collection of the National Library of Wales and the British Library’s UK database of theses.

The candidate will be expected to sign a declaration that they have obtained the appropriate copyright permission for the inclusion of any third-party content within the thesis so that the work can legally be made available in an open access repository.

Material accepted for the institutional repository should conform to guidelines issued from time to time by Information Services.

When a thesis is subject to a bar on access, it will not be deposited in the open access electronic repository until the expiry of that bar.

Unsuccessful submissions should be returned to the candidate after completion of the examination process.

 

Bars on Access

The University expects that research work accepted for a higher degree shall be openly available, and subject to no security classification or restriction of access.

Nevertheless, in cases where there is an overriding need for a restriction of copying or access (for example where sponsored research has resulted in a thesis which contains commercially-sensitive information) the University may, on the special recommendation of a Department, place a bar on photocopying of and/or access to a thesis for a specified period (normally three years in the first instance). It is the responsibility of your supervisor to make an application to the Department for a bar to be sought as soon as is reasonably practicable. Ideally the Department will be able to forward a recommendation that a bar be applied to the University at the outset of your candidature.

Please note that, in the event that a bar on photocopying and/or access is granted by the University, the signed statement to be included with each copy of the thesis submitted should indicate that the thesis may be made openly available after the expiry of the bar on access.

Normally, the title and summary of the thesis will be made available.