Useful documents

Regulations

Postgraduate Researchers should be familiar with the Regulations, which ensure fairness, consistency, transparency and protect academic standards.

Code of Practice for Research Degrees

The Code of Practice for Research Degrees should be read in conjunction with the University's Regulations.

The main aims of the Code of Practice for Research Degrees are:

• to ensure that research students at the University of Surrey are effectively supervised so that the full potential of their research ability may be achieved and their research completed within an appropriate period;
• to ensure that students and staff have a common understanding of their respective roles and responsibilities;
• to promote policies and procedures which protect the academic standards of the University's research degrees

Other useful documents and sources of information

• The UK doctorate: A guide for current and prospective doctoral candidates 
• Doctoral degree characteristics
• The UK Council for Graduate Education
• Vitae

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