Supervisors and committees

Supervisors

• Information about graduate students’ supervisors (at both Master’s and PhD levels) may be found in the Graduate Studies Academic Calendar at Section 7.1.

Committees

• For Master’s students
  • University rules governing Master’s with Thesis Examining Committees may be found in the Graduate Studies Academic Calendar at Section 7.3.
• For PhD students
  • University rules governing the PhD Comprehensive Examination Committee may be found in the Graduate Studies Academic Calendar at Section 7.4.3.
  • University advice regarding the PhD Advisory Committee may be found in the Graduate Studies Academic Calendar at Section 7.1. Students at this stage of their PhD journey should recognize that the University rules governing membership of PhD Thesis Examining Committees (elaborated in the next bullet-point) are different than – and more restrictive than – the advice regarding membership of PhD Advisory Committees. Given this, it is important to recognize that it should not be assumed that the members of a PhD Advisory Committee will necessarily be approved to be the members of the same student’s PhD Thesis Examining Committee. These two committees serve, of course, different roles: as the titles suggest, the former provides advisory support over a period of many months; the latter serves an evaluative role at a single point in time (the ‘defence’).
  • University rules governing the PhD Thesis Examining Committee may be found in the Graduate Studies Academic Calendar at Section 7.4.5.

Please note

• All are advised to check with their own unit – the Graduate Officer and/or the Graduate Coordinator – in order to confirm how the regulations above are being operationalised ‘locally’. Thank you.