Individual doctorate
An individual doctoral student completes a doctoral project outside an established doctoral programme. An individual doctorate will be supervised by a professor who will be your first point of call during your doctoral studies. This type of doctoral programme gives you considerable room for flexibility, but will also require a significant amount of initiative on your part. Fixed-term scholarships or employment relationships also require independent planning of the time you spend on your doctoral project.
Selecting a suitable doctoral topic for your thesis is essential, requiring you to think very carefully about what you intend to do. It should be substantial – remember you will be researching a specific topic for around three years – and must be relevant. You will need to write a research proposal which includes a research plan and time frame, as well as a preliminary structural outline of the project. You can then show this to your doctoral supervisor.
For more information, please contact the Office of the Doctoral Committee.