Transcript MRes PhD Transition information

Continuing your integrated “1+3”
MRes/PhD programme
Professor Dianne Ford
MRes Degree Programme Director
Director of PhD Studies
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Current position
• MRes taught elements complete
• ~ 10 weeks into research project
– In your PhD supervisor’s laboratory, in cosupervisor’s laboratory or in a laboratory that is
providing training in skills/techniques required for
your PhD studies
Requirements/expectations to
complete successfully your integrated
programme
• Satisfactory 6/7 month progress review
– Currently underway
– Research Project Supervisor, MRes Degree Programme Director/
Director of PhD Studies, Dean of Postgraduate Studies
– Review marks for taught component and ensure progress with
research project is satisfactory (and, if appropriate, that a
satisfactory IELTS score has been achieved)
• Merit in MRes
– Concessions may be requested from the Dean of Postgraduate
Studies if there are exceptional mitigating circumstances.
• Submission of PhD thesis within 4 years of initial
registration
Mechanism for transfer from MRes to
PhD studies
• Formal registration will be in September 2014.
– Dependent on confirmation of achieving Merit in
the MRes
• BUT you MUST continue your research OR
undertake an internship over the summer
period.
– You remain a registered student of Newcastle
University and, if Research-Council (or perhaps
otherwise) funded, are paid a stipend to cover this
period.
Mechanism for transfer from MRes to
PhD studies
• New Learning Agreement required
• Project approval by end of December 2014
(preferably earlier)
• Annual progress reviews
Continuing your research after
submission of your MRes dissertation
• Straightforward if your MRes research was carried out in
your PhD supervisor’s laboratory
• If your PhD research will require relocation to another
laboratory, arrange with your PhD supervisor for the
relocation to take place as soon as you have submitted your
MRes dissertation.
• Holiday should be agreed with your PhD supervisor, in
accordance with Faculty policy
(http://www.ncl.ac.uk/fms/staff/supervisor/documents/PG
RHolidayPolicy.pdf).
Formal guidelines for the information of
both students and supervisors
• Available at
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/fms/postgrad/documentati
on/documents/MResPhDtransitionguidelines.pdf
Formal guidelines for the information of
both students and supervisors
• Available at
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/fms/postgrad/documentati
on/documents/MResPhDtransitionguidelines.pdf
Guidance on the use of material included
in the MRes dissertation in your PhD
• “For the purpose of project approval, the PhD project title may be same as
the title of the MRes research project. The title of the final thesis is agreed
only on submission of the form “Application for approval of title of thesis
and appointment of examiners” (see
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/students/progress/assets/documents/ApprovalofTitl
eandExaminersPhDMPhilAug08.doc ), and this should be different from
the title of the MRes project.
– Note that the same material may not be examined as a component of the both
the MRes and PhD degrees. The content of the PhD thesis must be different
from (but may build on) the content of the MRes dissertation.”
• “Following formal registration for PhD studies, annual progress reviews
will be as for a three year PhD project. For the first annual review of
progress, it is acceptable for students to include in the literature review
text included in the MRes research project dissertation; this practice will
not be viewed as self‐plagiarism. However, it should be noted that, in such
an instance, the same text may NOT be used in the PhD thesis (since that
same material may not be examined as a component of both the MRes
and PhD degrees).”
Practical considerations
• Consider (discuss with supervisors) if you should
hold data obtained during the MRes project to
include in your PhD thesis.
• “Preliminary” data included in the MRes
dissertation may be included in the PhD thesis IF
you have added to it and can thus present it
differently.
– e.g. included more participants in a study and
combined the data analysis
– e.g. carried out further biological replicates of in vitro
experiments and combined the data
Any questions?