RIDS | Tygerberg Doctoral Office
PhD Proposal Review
Each PhD student in the FMHS is required to present the PhD research proposal / protocol to a review panel, and afterwards, to make all the changes required by the panel in order to finalise the proposal for compulsory submission to an SU Research Ethics Committee.
After successful completion of the review, the main, internal supervisor emails the following five
PDF-format documents to the Tygerberg Doctoral Office (
tyg-phd@sun.ac.za) in a
single email, copying the candidate:
- Supervisor confirmation that all review requirements were met
- Fully completed and signed Form A3
- Summary report by review chair
or all reviewer reports
- Final, edited proposal for ethics submission
- Turnitin report on the final proposal (similarity score of no more than 15%)