Calls for nominations for the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis will be going out in the week commencing 16 January 2017.
In 2015, two of our Doctoral Students won the Vice Chancellors Best Thesis Awards. Our new graduates, Dr Sarah Bristow in the School of Medicine and Dr Ankita Umapathy in the School of Optometry, proudly secured two of these prizes for FMHS.
At the end of each calendar year, the best doctoral theses from all faculties are nominated for one of five university-wide prizes that are awarded for the doctoral theses of most outstanding quality.
Nominations should be forwarded through Academic Heads (Heads of Department/School) to Associate Dean (Postgraduate). Nominations can only be for those candidates who have fully completed (RQMT) between January-December 2016 (i.e. the hard-bound copy of the thesis handed in and a digital copy deposited in ResearchSpace).
This early announcement is to allow supervisors and Academic Heads to prepare the submissions. The closing date for submissions will be announced in the New Year.