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• Approximately three months prior to your thesis submission deadline, you and your supervisor need to complete the online Approval of Title and Nomination of Examiners forms.
• You need to provide your exact final title of your thesis (ensure your wordings and spellings are correct!). Please also provide a very short summary of your area of research (approximately 6 words), suitable for use in a graduation ceremony.
• You must upload an abstract for your thesis as part of your submission.
• Your supervisor will then complete their form, including nominating examiners and providing evidence of their suitability in relation to examining your thesis. Usually an internal and an external examiner will be appointed. For staff candidates, two external examiners must be appointed.
• It then goes to Head of School & PG Dean for approval; after which you will be notified. You can monitor progress via the ‘Summary’ tab when you view your form.

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You can usually reuse your work for the purposes of your thesis submission, but if you would like your thesis to be available online via  Newcastle University eTheses  (which is the best route for making your thesis discoverable), then you would need to double check the specifics of the copyright transfer agreement you signed with your publisher(s).

When publishing,  copyright is often transferred to the publisher  via a copyright transfer agreement or assigned via an exclusive licence to publish. Therefore if you intend to include work that you have already published (e.g. journal articles) in your thesis online, you will need to ensure that you have the rights to do so.

Some publishers make explicit in their contracts with you that you can do this, others leave it unclear. To be sure you can reuse your published work in this way, please contact your publisher(s) and ask them for permission to reuse the published materials in your thesis and for it to be subsequently published in our institutional online thesis repository.

Alternatively, you can submit your thesis in its entirety and remove (or ask us to remove) the published materials from the version to be published online, or ask for the e-thesis to be permanently embargoed as it includes materials which we don't have permission to re-publish.

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(ii) Resources means enough time, equipment and money, and also the right supervisory team and infrastructure.

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In their review, the panel members might point out obvious problems or improvements they would like to see. They need to do that before you make any substantial progress on your project, and so we ask for the proposal to be submitted within 3 months of your start date. Remember that the same panel members will also be assessing you later in your programme, so it is in your interest that they have the opportunity to review the proposal.

How long should a proposal be?

We see a lot of variety in the proposals, from a couple of paragraphs to 20 pages or more. The latter often come when the team has had to prepare a full proposal for a grant application or an ethical committee.Two paragraphs is sounding short. On the other hand, 20 pages sounds intimidating and might not be read very quickly. Somewhere from 2-5 pages would be typical.

How do I submit?

Via ePortfolio . Note that the student has to start off the proposal submission process. Supervisors and panel members can only view it in consecutive order, after the previous owners have signed off. Similarly the ICM and the graduate school can’t approve the proposal until all team members have seen it.

You’ll see that ePortfolio offers some large text boxes that you can type or paste into directly. You can of course use these, but the majority of students upload their proposal as a stand-alone Word or PDF document. You have more options in presentation and formatting, most reviewers find a stand-alone document easier to manage, and in addition it’s easier to print and bring along to a progression review.

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Give enough information for your panel members to make an informed judgement. Not chapter and verse of the methods, but a rationale, an outline for your scientific approach and maybe a timeline and person-line. You might address the following questions, taken from Newcastle University’s website:

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First is a  Short Project Proposal form that was adapted from one of our MSc programmes. The intention was that this should be up to 2 pages in total length. This is perhaps the minimum you need provide to get a good review of your proposal from the panel.

Next, an  Integrated Project Proposal form that was the next stage in the MSc project development, and was originally based on the content of the UK’s IRAS research approvals process.

This is a reasonably detailed document, so don’t be surprised if you can’t address all the sections. It might be more appropriate for those who have a reasonably well-developed plan. That would include MPhil and many MD students, and those who have embarked on postgraduate work against an established project. In practice, most students probably come somewhere between the two.

In addition, here is a one-page Proposal Cribsheet  that might help explain what your panel members will be looking for, and therefore the questions you might try to answer.

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Each discipline area may have different requirements for the style of the thesis or, you may be submitting a t hesis by publication or an exegesis with a creative component . It is important that you work with your supervisor to ensure you are on track for the style of thesis you plan to submit and that you read the relevant guidelines.

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The Thesis Examination Guidelines (PDF, 134KB) provide comprehensive information about how to prepare and submit your thesis for examination. Your thesis should also meet the requirements set out formally in the Higher Degree by Research Policy . Please contact Graduate Research if you have any questions.

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You may use a professional editor in preparing your thesis for submission. There are national guidelines for editing research theses . Please read these guidelines carefully, noting that before they commence the work, you will need to provide your editor with a copy of the guidelines , as well as evidence of your supervisor’s permission for the editing.

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Your thesis is submitted electronically, via Canvas . You may refer to the Thesis Submission Checklist .

In addition to your thesis, you must submit a completed Thesis Examination Application Form , signed by both yourself and your principal supervisor.

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Adsorption of [Au(CN) 2 ] − ions from aqueous solutions on an activated carbon surface

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Sorbent capacity and kinetics of the adsorption process on synthetic carbons (FAS grade) and commercial coconut shell activated carbons were studied in the system activated carbon-aqueous solution of sodium dicyanoaurate(I). The effect of progressive activation of carbons on the adsorption value was analyzed. The method of moments was used to calculate the internal diffusion coefficients and show their relation to the structure of activated carbons.

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