?RIDS | Tygerberg Doctoral Office
?PhD Proposal Review
Each PhD student in the FMHS is required to present the PhD research proposal / protocol to a review panel, and afterwards, to make all the changes required by the panel in order to finalise the proposal for compulsory submission to an SU Research Ethics Committee.
- The student refers to FMHS Doctoral Proposal Writing Guide and works closely with the supervisor/s to complete a well-supported and polished research protocol?, ideally within five to six months;
- Consult the Biostatistics Unit / Animal Research Facility, if relevant;
- When ready for review, main internal supervisor completes their sections of the Form A3 review checklist?; and attaches CVs of the student and any proposed external supervisors and/or review panel members, together with any pre-existing ethics approval/s;
- Divisional head to approve the panel and draft Form A3 before review date is set and review chair distributes documents to the approved panel with 2 weeks' notice.
- Review chair, who distributes the documents and finally completes the Form A3 (after the review);
- CPR representative, who monitors the procedure - allocated by the
Tygerberg Doctoral Office (tyg-phd@sun.ac.za);
- REC representative, who scrutinises the proposal and completes the relevant section of the Form A3 before the review - any member of most suitable REC may be approached; HREC members may be approached from this list?;
- One or more domain experts, who must each complete the
reviewer form.
After successful completion of the review, the main, internal supervisor emails the following five
PDF-format documents to the Tygerberg Doctoral Office (tyg-phd@sun.ac.za) in a
single email, copying the candidate:?
- Supervisor confirmation that all review requirements were met?
- Fully completed and signed Form A3 review checklist?
- Summary report by review chair or all reviewer reports?
- Final, edited proposal for ethics submission?
- Turnitin report on the final proposal???? (similarity score of no more than 15%)
- *A letter will then be issued to facilitate an
ethics application.
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