This timetable for the preparation of a Ph.D. Thesis, has been suggested by the EPSRC. The timetable will only work if you plan to it, for example, by booking binders etc. It also assumes that your interpretations are well advanced and that no difficulties arise during the construction of an overall view. For example, further experiments and interpretation might become necessary. Oversights like these are natural in research but can be minimised by publishing papers during the course of the work.
Theses which are not completed within the three year period will always have a lower priority from the supervisor. The timetable below should begin in April of the third year if the project originally began in October.
| Introduction | 3 weeks |
| Method and results | 6 weeks |
| Discussion, tables, figures, refs etc | 6 weeks |
| Typing | 2 weeks |
| Sub-total 1 | 17 weeks |
| Consultation with supervisor and others | 1 week |
| Revision of draft | 2 weeks |
| Sub-total 2 | 3 weeks |
| Final typing, art work on figures,proof reading etc. | 3 weeks |
| Binding | 1 week |
| Sub-total 3 | 4 weeks |
| TOTAL | 24 WEEKS |
Regulations permit the examiners to study the thesis for a maximum period of three months. Requests for urgent examinations are therefore difficult, and assume that revisions are not necessary. It is not reasonable to expect the examiner to take less than two or three months to study the thesis.
A one page abstract is required separately, which will also be examined and signed by both examiners, in order to approve the standard and to certify that the abstract is representative of the thesis contents
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