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Students who meet the appropriate requirements who are interested in undertaking a masters research project within the School of Medical Sciences should follow the process described below. 

Before your enrolment can be approved, you will be required to have identified a thesis/dissertation research topic and to have come to an agreement with an academic staff member about supervision of your thesis/dissertation research.

This process is for students enrolling in: BIOMED 796A/B, PHYSOL 796A/B, PHARMCOL 796A/B, HLTHSCI 796A/B, with a main supervisor in School of Medical Science/Liggins Institute.

• Select a project of interest and arrange to see the supervisor offering the project by visiting research projects page
• When you meet the supervisor take your academic record and your CV.
• Enrol in the appropriate programme.
• The student and supervisor should then prepare together a Masters Project Proposal Form and submit this to the School of Medical Sciences - Masters Advisory Commitee.
  Role of the School of Medical Sciences - Masters Advisory Commitee(10.9KB PDF)
• A mid year progress report is also required to be submitted to the SMS- Masters Advisory Committee.
  Masters Progress Report Form(74.0KB DOC)  

Deadlines for submission of the proposal and progress report are the last Friday, one calendar month prior to the start of each semester.

Submission of Masters Thesis

From 1 January 2011, all masters students have to submit two hard bound copies and one digital copy of their thesis.  Prior to submitting your two copies  to the Graduate Centre you will have to submit a digital copy to the library.

Completed and signed forms should be submitted to:

Further information can be obtained from: