The dissertation proposal and the specialty exam serve different purposes and should be viewed as separate activities, even though often executed concurrently. The dissertation proposal marks the ...

Note: The following guidelines are for use within the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing (FPB). They are congruent with School of Graduate studies guidelines. It is important to note that all PhD ...

Research methods Guidance on the process of designing and carrying out a research project or dissertation - from understanding research methods and writing a research proposal, to planning and ...

The Department of Sociology at Western Michigan University follows all of the Graduate College policies regarding the doctoral dissertation procedures. The doctoral dissertation: Is an unpublished ...

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has awarded Dissertation Research Grants to sixteen doctoral candidates. The award, which is funded by the Mellon Foundation, enables our scholars to conduct ...

M.Sc. Christian Benner’s doctoral dissertation "FINEMAP: a Statistical Method for Identifying Causal Genetic Variants” will be publicly examined on Friday, 18 January, with the permission of the ...

Research is a process. Is it is a process by which we find the answers to questions. Importantly, research is systematic and guided by the theory and research of others. Research always starts with a ...

This PhD programme offers the chance to undertake a substantial piece of work that is worthy of publication and which makes an original contribution to the field of methodology or which applies ...

A doctoral dissertation must consist of peer-reviewed scholarly publications or manuscripts accepted for publication, as well as a summarising report on the said documents (an article-based ...