HDR34 - Theses Submission Declaration & Approval

This is to be completed by Research Degrees candidates once they are ready to submit the thesis.

An electronic PDF copy of the thesis is to be uploaded to this form.

Other documents to upload to this form include:

• HDR31 - Co-Authorship Approvals for HDR Thesis for Examinations form, if applicable, 1 form per publication

• Final iThenticate Similarity Report

• All relevant answers must be completed. 
  

• Progress on this form can be saved and completed at a later stage.

• When selecting 'save and continue later,' a link will be emailed to enable you to return and complete the form.

Workflows:

Workflows have been enabled with this form to facilitate authorisations and signatures as follows:

1. Candidate to complete sections 1 - 9. Then,  submit the form, which will be sent to your principal supervisors at the address you provide in the form. (Please ensure you enter the correct email address here)

2. Your principal supervisor is then required to complete section 10 and submit it to the Dean of Graduate Studies for final review.

3. Dean of Graduate Studies to complete section 11 and submit to HDR Exams for processing.

For queries about the process or difficulties using the form, please get in touch with the Examination Coordinator by phone at +61 8 8946 7065 or by email at hdrexams@cdu.edu.au.

If you did receive ethics clearance, you will need to complete the Final Ethics Report when prompted.

You can contact Ethics@cdu.edu.au to locate this information, if necessary.

Please refer to the  HDR - Co-Authorship Approvals for HDR Thesis for Examinations (snapforms.com.au) for further guidance.

This information could help the examiner:

• Appreciate the effort necessary to write the thesis 

• Understand the cause of any minor grammatical errors 

However, write the thesis as proficiently as you can and seek an editor if needed.

To earn this degree, you must participate in workshops, activities, and experiences that extend your capabilities and promulgate your research. You would have been informed of the minimum degree of participation when you enrolled. 

To ascertain whether you have achieved this minimum, please list in either this space below or upload a document.

• The workshops you completed during the research enhancement program—or other comparable experiences

• the presentations or conferences in which you disseminated your research

If you have not achieved this minimum, you might need to complete other activities before earning the degree.

To check for potential plagiarism, please run a similarity report in iThenticate on your final thesis.

Check each instance of similarity in the report to ensure all work is correctly attributed and edit if and as required to avoid any potential plagiarism. Then, generate a similarity report on the FINAL version of your thesis through iThenticate and upload it here.

A guide to the iThenticate system can be found here:  iThenticate user guides (turnitin.com)

Congratulations on reaching this stage in your degree!!

Once you submit the form, an email containing the workflow link will be sent directly to your Principal Supervisor at the email address you provided above.

(Note: Please ensure that you click 'submit' for it to be sent to the Principal Supervisor)

Your Principal Supervisor will then proceed to submit the form to HDR Exams.

Please indicate which of the following statements are correct.

If the principal supervisor does not believe the thesis is ready to be submitted, but the candidate wants to submit the thesis, the Research Committee will determine whether the submission should proceed.

Once you click 'submit' the form will be sent to HDR Exams