Forms and guidelines

All Leave Requests, Extension Requests, Changes of Supervisory Team Requests, as well as forms pertaining to Confirmation of Candidature and Progress Reviews are now lodged via your Student Centre.  

Instructions on how to use the HDR Student Candidature Management System:

• Leave Request for HDR Students 
• Extension Requests 
• Change of Supervisory Team
• Academic Load Change Request

• HDR Preliminary Thesis Topic Proposal (DOTX 604KB) 
• HDR Person of Interest Request (DOTX 171KB) 
• Cotutelle/Joint PhD Information and Forms

• Confirmation of Candidature

• Progress Reviews Guide
• HDR Interim Report
• Gantt Chart Template

• Nomination of Examiners
• Statement by HDR Student 
• Statement by Supervisor
• Thesis Formatting Checklist
• Standard Thesis Guidelines and Standard Thesis Template
• Thesis by Publication Guidelines and Thesis by Publication Template
• Thesis by Creative Works Guidelines and Thesis by Creative Works Template
• Response to Examiner comments - Template 1
• Response to Examiner comments - Template 2 

• HDR Exit Checklist 57KB
• HDR Thesis Information Form (please note that you will need to be logged into the UniSQ Microsoft 365 environment to access this form).