Doctor of Philosophy Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==== Requirements for completion ==== Completion requirements vary. Most Australian PhD programs do not have a required coursework component. The credit points attached to the degree are all in the product of the research, which is usually an 80,000-word thesis<ref>[https://www.anu.edu.au/students/academic-skills/research-writing/introductions/length Current students Β» Academic skills Β» Research writing Β» Introductions Β» Length] [[Australian National University]].</ref> that makes a significant new contribution to the field. Recent pressure on [[Postgraduate education#Types of postgraduate degrees|higher degree by research (HDR)]] students to publish has resulted in increasing interest in [[Thesis by publication|Ph.D by publication]] as opposed to the more traditional Ph.D by dissertation, which typically requires a minimum of two publications, but which also requires traditional thesis elements such as an introductory [[exegesis]], and linking chapters between papers.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jackson |first=Denise |url=https://ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=ecuworks2013 |title=Completing a PhD by publication: a review of Australian policy and implications for practice |date=22 April 2013 |volume=32 |pages=355β368 |doi=10.1080/07294360.2012.692666 |ref=jackson2013completing |access-date=5 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190429154004/https://ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=ecuworks2013 |archive-date=29 April 2019 |url-status=live |issue=3 |journal=Higher Education Research & Development |s2cid=145372065}}</ref> The PhD thesis is sent to external examiners who are experts in the field of research and who have not been involved in the work. Examiners are nominated by the candidate's university, and their identities are often not revealed to the candidate until the examination is complete. A formal oral defence is generally not part of the examination of the thesis, largely because of the distances that would need to be travelled by the overseas examiners; however, since 2016, there is a trend toward implementing this in many Australian universities. At the University of South Australia, PhD candidates who started after January 2016 now undertake an oral defence via an online conference with two examiners.<ref>[https://i.unisa.edu.au/siteassets/policies-and-procedures/docs/academic/guideline-ab-58-ad8_2023.pdf ''Oral Defence of the Thesis in Research Degrees'']. [[University of South Australia]].</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page