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Visualise Your Thesis

Visualise your thesis™.

an international programme for graduate researchers

In a climate of knowledge exchange and community engagement, communicating to an audience outside the Academy is becoming increasingly important for research professionals.

The Programme

Visualise Your Thesis is an international programme that challenges graduate researchers to present their research in a 60-second audio-visual explainer. The programme provides an opportunity for universities from across the world to showcase their graduate research and for the participants to build essential information and digital literacy skills to effectively communicate complex research to a general audience.

Currently-enrolled PhD, MPhil, and Professional Doctorate (Research) candidates can participate. It is suitable for all disciplines and for students at any stage of their candidature. Visit our Figshare site to view past entries.

How to Participate

We invite institutions to participate by running a local Visualise Your Thesis programme for their own graduate researchers using the official guidelines and programme kit provided by the University of Melbourne upon registration.

Expressions of Interest (EOI) & Registrations for 2024 are now open! Visit the 2024 Visualise Your Thesis page here to find out more about how you can participate this year.

We're hosting an information session in a few weeks for institutions interested in hosting a local programme at their university and participating in the international 2024 programme. View the event details and register here.

Find out more about the origin and development of the Visualise Your Thesis programme.

Twenty-three institutions from five countries hosted a local Visualise Your Thesis programme, with their winners proceeding to the 2023 international programme. All of the submitted entries can be viewed on the Visualise Your Thesis figshare , a publicly available repository.

The entries were judged by:

• Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles MNZM: Head of the Bioluminescent Superbugs Lab at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, and awarded science communicator.
• Dr David Phipps: Assistant Vice-President, Research & Impact at York University, Canada, and global leader in research impact.

Read more about the 2023 judges here.

The winners were announced online, and in-person at the eResearch Australasia conference in Brisbane, Australia, on 18 October 2023.

2023 VYT International programme winners

First place : recipient of AUD $5,000 prize Tegan Clark,  It’s Dusty Down Under, Australian National University

Second place : recipient of AUD $2,000 prize Kate Revell,  Year 7/8 Student Engagement in Performing-Arts , University of Canterbury

Third place : recipient of AUD $1,000 prize Tara Crandon,  “Weathering the Storm”: Understanding Climate Anxiety and Coping in Young People, The University of Queensland

The judges also awarded a highly commended entry to Christopher Hall,  Platform Journalism: Law & Society , University of Technology Sydney.

Trending on VYT

Trending on VYT recognised the entrant who achieved the highest number of views for their video on the VYT Figshare repository between 02 October - 06 October 2023. The Trending on VYT winner won a 1-year Gold Membership to the Research Impact Academy , providing them training and consulting to further develop their research communication skills.

The winner of Trending on VYT in 2023 was Tara Crandon, “ Weathering the Storm”: Understanding Climate Anxiety and Coping in Young People , The University of Queensland

Twenty-two institutions from five countries participated in the fourth international programme. All of the entries are available to view on the Visualise Your Thesis Figshare repository , showcasing the great work of the graduate researchers who won their institution's local programme to progress to the international programme.

• Dr Katy Peplin: creator of Thrive PhD , a community and coaching service for graduate researchers;
• Cr Davydd Griffiths, lead for the City of Melbourne's Education and Innovation portfolio; and
• Dr Eva Méndez, researcher at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, and 'open knowledge militant.'

Read more about the judges here.

The award winners were announced online, and in person, at the eResearch Australasia conference on 19 October 2022.

2022 Winners

First place: prize of AUD $5,000 Drew Min Su Cylinder, Neural Correlates of Behavioural Changes During Propofol General Anaesthesia in Caenorhabditis Elegans , the University of Queensland.

Second place: prize of AUD $2,000  Freya Muir, New Quest: Protect Our Beaches from Climate Change! , the University of Glasgow.

Third place: prize of AUD $1,000 Samuel Widodo, Switching cancer-promoting macrophages to fight brain cancer , the University of Melbourne.

Trending on VYT, the Visualise Your Thesis Viewers' Choice, recognised the entrant who achieved the highest number of views for their video on the VYT Figshare repository between 03-09 October 2022.  The Trending on VYT winner won a 1-year Gold Membership to  the Research Impact Academy , sponsored by Figshare, providing them training and consulting to further develop their research communication skills.

The winner of Trending on VYT in 2023 was Drew Min Su Cylinder, Neural Correlates of Behavioural Changes During Propofol General Anaesthesia in Caenorhabditis Elegans , the University of Queensland.

Twenty five institutions from six countries competed in the third international competition. All finalists’ works were added to the Visualise Your Thesis figshare repository where the public can watch and download the creative commons licenced videos, and the creators can gain insights into their impact through altmetrics tracking. The field was judged by a three judge panel and announced at eResearch Australasia on October 14th 2021.

The 2021 international prize pool totalled $8,000 AUD. The winners were:

2021 VYT International Competition prizes and winners:

First prize: AUD $5,000

Krystall Campbell, University of Technology Sydney

The experiences of Australian First in Family university students and graduate: an intergenerational and intersectional exploration

Second prize: AUD $2,000

Hannah Petocz, La Trobe University

Wondering if I was the Problem': Exploring the Perpetuation and impact of Dating Violence on young Australian Women

Third prize: AUD $1,000

Ratanapat Suchat, Swinburine University of Technology

Brand nostalgia: the emotional responses of Thai students studying in Australia to Thai condiment packaging

Highly commended

• YC Lin , Australia National University,  Understanding Piezo, a force-sensing molecular machine

2021  Trending on VYT competition

The entry with the most views as recorded on figshare between 4-10 October 2021:  Md Eaysir Arafat, Queensland University of Technology,  Effectiveness of Interventions for Mobile Phone Distracted Pedestrians

The winner of the 2021  Trending on VYT competition will be the video with the  most views  as recorded in the 2021  figshare gallery . Downloads will not be used to determine the winner.

Views were counted from midnight, Monday 4 th October (GMT), to 11:59pm on Sunday, 10 October (GMT). Make sure to check your  local start and  local end times so your view counts.

The 2021 judges were Dr Tamika Heiden, Al Cossar and Professor Deb Verhoeven. Find out more about the 2021 judges here .

Twenty one universities from five countries competed in the second international competition. All finalists’ works were added to the Visualise Your Thesis figshare repository where the public can watch and download the creative commons licenced videos, and the creators can gain insights into their impact through altmetrics tracking. The field was judged by a three judge panel and announced at eResearch Australasia in Brisbane on October 19th 2020.  Read more about the 2020 International Judges.

The 2020 international prize pool totalled $8,000 AUD. Our winners were:

1st place - Kelly Wilson-Stewart, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), $5,000 AU

Protecting nurses from radiation exposure

The judges said:  From a simple, almost storybook opening we are taken on a clear explanatory arc to the heart of the problem - x-rays don’t behave in an orderly fashion as one might imagine – and onwards, to the accompaniment of a cannily-chosen soundtrack, to a restrained but effective emotional payoff – these are not storybook characters but real people – lending the project a sense of importance and relevance that is inescapable. The result? We WANT this project to succeed! Great communication and salesmanship for an important research project.

2nd place - Ané van der Walt, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), $2,000 AU

The Narrative Atlas: creative prototyping and multivocality in archaeology

The judges said:  This was just beautiful and was a well told and visually rich illustrated story itself about how to make a story. In addition, it explained well the cultural importance of the project and indeed how the atlas would have a life after the project ends.

3rd place - Maleen Jayasuriya, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), $1,000 AU

One Small Step for a PhD Student, One Giant Leap for Mobility Scooters

The judges said:  This grabbed immediately with its humour, engaging character and a good story – which made all the judges laugh. But there was more than humour – a clever use of animation and a mix of graphics, succinctly explained a quite complex solution for very a real world problem.

• Nicola Rivers, Monash University,  "Everything not saved will be lost"

The judges said:  An elegant and lucid explanation of species recovery technology drawing on the easily-relatable analogy of data back-up. We appreciate immediately what the problem is and are led to an equally clear grasp of the proposed solution. Deceptively simple animation gains sophistication through a limited colour palette. The choice of a stylish and highly legible font completes the picture making for an excellent communication package.

• Gwendolyn Foo, UNSW,  Using Robots to Solve the World’s Fastest Growing Problem

The judges said:  There was a great use of photos and images to explain the human and societal costs of waste. The editing of images and the soundtrack provided really good tension in the story, which led logically to the resolution described by the research project.

2020  Trending on VYT competition

The entry with the most views as recorded on figshare between 12-19 October 2020: Chantelle Clarke, CQU,  Supporting mental health for women with lipoedema through compassionate mind training .  Chantelle wins a VYT prize pack incl. a Kindle Prologue. (6"touch display 167 PPI. 4GB wifi).

The winner of the 2020  Trending on VYT competition will be the video with the most views as recorded in the 2020  figshare gallery . Downloads will not be used to determine the winner.

Views were counted from midnight, Monday 12th October (GMT), to 11:59pm on Sunday, 18 October (GMT). Make sure to check your  local start and  local end times so your view counts.

The 2020 judges were: Professor Ginny Barbour, Graeme Base and Professor Deb Verhoeven. Find out more about the 2020 judges here .

2019 saw our first true International competition, when 16 institutions from 4 countries ran a local competition and sent their winner to the International final. The field was judged by a three judge panel and announced at eResearch Australasia in Brisbane on October 22nd 2019 by Professor Ginny Barbour. Read more about the 2019 International Judges.

All winning entries were  showcased on our figshare site , provided with the support of Digital Science, where they can be reused in accordance with a creative commons licence of the entrants choosing.  The site also provides detailed viewing metrics so that students can learn more about the reach of their presentations.

The 2019 international prize pool totalled $8,000 AUD. Our inaugural winners were:

• 1st  prize  - Annaclaire McDonald, University of Technology Sydney ($5,000 AU) Fantastic Metals & Where to Phyt Them
• 2nd  prize  - Donovan Garcia-Ceron, La Trobe University ($2,000 AUD) Exploring Extracellular Vesicles From Plant Fungal Pathogens
• 3rd prize -  Carmen Glanville, University of Melbourne ($1,000 AUD) Protecting Pets by Changing People

The team presented at THETA 2019 in Wollongong on the benefits of Visualise Your Thesis for students and research administrators, and at eResearch Australasia in Brisbane on creating digital stories for impact in research.

The 2019 judges were: Professor Ginny Barbour, Assoc. Professor Tim Sherratt and Sam Muirhead. Find out more about the 2019 judges here .

After a relatively short history the competition was offered nationally so that other institutions could get involved. It was almost immediately forced to go international such was the demand from universities around the world. Each participating university sent their local winning entry to be showcased in the non-competitive online winners' gallery hosted by the University of Melbourne.

Institutions received a competition kit and resources to run their local competitions with the support of the University of Melbourne Visualise Your Thesis team, and the feedback from the early adopters was used to refine the competition processes for the future.

The team presented at the Australian Research Management Society conference in Hobart, speaking about the development of the competition to date.

University of Hong Kong local competition entrants 2018

In August 2017, the competition became Pitch Your Thesis and, as an indication of how far the competition had come in its short history, judge Simon Clews was joined by academic celebrity, Associate Professor Inger Mewburn (known to all as the Thesis Whisperer).

First prize that year was awarded to "Mathematics and assessment in early childhood education" by Rachel Pollitt, second prize to "A seasonal thermal energy storage system for space heating" by Sheikh Khaleduzzaman Shah, and third prize to "Designing animal-computer interaction to shape zoo visitors' perceptions of animals" by Sarah Webber. The popular Viewer's Choice prize went to "Saving life with new artificial blood vessels" by Fatemeh Karimi.

University of Melbourne competition entrants with competition judges, Simon Clews and Inger Mewburn 2017

In August 2016 the competition put down its digital roots and became an ePoster competition called Visualise My Thesis. Still Melbourne-only in these early days, the competition challenged PhDs to effectively communicate complex research to a general audience.

First prize was awarded to "Imagination of adventure in today's art" by Emilie Walsh, second prize went to "Development of the Rowley Shoals Reefs" by Jackson McCaffrey and third prize to "Weak feet and walking, it’s in the shoes" by Rachel Kennedy. That year also saw a new prize, the Viewers' Choice prize, which also went to Emilie Walsh.

The 2016 competition was judged by Simon Clews (Director of the Melbourne Engagement Lab).

University of Melbourne  competition entrants with competition judge Simon Clews 2016

2015 saw the precursor to the Visualise Your Thesis competition, the Researcher@Library Week Poster competition. Part of the University of Melbourne's inaugural Researcher@Library Week.

The competition was won by Matthew Wood, a PhD Candidate researching Tectonic Geomorphology. Second prize was awarded to Marcella Purnama, a Publishing and Communications Master's student, and third prize to Vincent Bachtiar, who was undertaking a PhD in Mechanical Engineering.

The competition was successful and extremely popular, but there was clearly a demand for the poster to do more - to be more engaging, and even dramatic. An ePoster competition was almost inevitable.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

• Programme rules
• Template (Powerpoint - ppt)
• Judging criteria and judging rubric
• Technical instructions
• How to run the programme
• Participant submission checklist
• How Graduate Researchers use the template
• Tips for Graduate Researchers to create their video
• Tips for Graduate Researchers to add audio to their video
• Guidelines for the use of the Visualise Your Thesis identity and concept

It is up to individual institutions to devise and offer training sessions for programme participants.

The University of Melbourne, for past programmes, offered the following supporting resources presented in a workshop, video, or LMS:

• Working with PowerPoint
• Principles of graphic design and visual presentation
• Writing succinctly for a non-specialist audience
• Effective video storytelling for researchers
• Copyright, for example: keeping your entry compliant, seeking permissions, accessing expired copyright materials,  protecting your copyright materials.

We highly recommend incorporating information on how to source and cite copyright-compliant visual or audio-visual material into any training resources you provide.

Expressions of Interest (EOI) & Registrations for 2023 are now closed.

There are no costs involved in participating in the programme; however, all local prizes are to be supplied by the individual participating institutions. The University of Melbourne does not provide prizes for local programmes.

The 2023 International programme final prize pool  can be found under the 2023 tab .

Please contact us via  [email protected] for further information.

This programme does not have a verbal presentation component and relies purely on each submission's visual presentation. Students who are in earlier stages of research (have not reached confirmation/ before writing up) are also welcome to enter the programme.

Sponsorship Enquiries

Sponsorship enquiries are welcome at any time. Businesses interested in finding out more about sponsorship opportunities associated with the programme should email [email protected] for further information and a sponsorship prospectus.

For further information, institutions can contact [email protected] . You can also connect with us by following the Visualise Your Thesis LinkedIn .

Please note: University of Melbourne graduate researchers should visit the UoM Visualise Your Thesis site.

2024 is the sixth year for Visualise Your Thesis: graduate researchers who have won their institutions' programme move on to participate in the international programme with entrants from around the world.

Latest Programme Updates

Expressions of interest and registrations now open.

We're excited to announce that EOIs and registrations for the 2024 programme are now open. Institutions can submit:

• An Expression of Interest (EOI) in hosting a programme. Institutions who submit an EOI receive a copy of the programme kit with further information about how to run a local programme and participate in the international programme. Submit your EOI here . Submitting an EOI doesn't mean you host a local programme in 2024, but allows you to learn more about what's involved.
• A formal registration to participate. Institutions who submit an EOI are confirming they are going to host a local programme provide a winning entry to the Visualise Your Thesis International programme, and agree to the legal terms and conditions of participating.  Submit your registration here.

We recommend that institutions who have not hosted a programme before submit an EOI to get further information before they formally register.

The deadline to submit an EOI or registration is 4 June 2024.

What's in the programme kit?

All institutions who submit an EOI, or register for the programme, receive access to the programme kit. This includes:

• The Administration Pack: what you need to know to coordinate a programme at your institution.
• The Entrant Pack: a customisable set of resources to provide to graduate researchers submitting an entry to your local programme.
• The VYT Australian or international licence: the legal terms of hosting a local programme, and participating in the international programme.
• The Presentation template: for use by your graduate researchers when preparing their entry.

What's the timeline for hosting a programme?

There's more detail about this in the programme kit, and there's a timeline for the international programme listed on this page (scroll down!)

In summary, institutions have from March to August to host their local programme. The sooner institutions register to participate, the sooner they can launch their local programme.

What if I have more questions after I've submitted an EOI or registration?

Please email us with any questions via [email protected].  

We hosted an information session on 22 March 2024 to go into more detail about Visualise Your Thesis and what's new in 2024. If you would like to access a copy of the recording, please email us.

I am a graduate researcher and would like to submit an entry for 2024. Do I submit an EOI or registration?

Expressions of Interest and registrations for the international programme are made by institutions who are wanting to host a programme for their graduate researchers for 2024. Graduate researchers wanting to submit an entry to Visualise Your Thesis should contact their institution to ask for further information about their programme.

2024 Programme Timeline

Institutions submit an expression of interest and register to host a local Visualise Your Thesis programme.

Visualise Your Thesis local programmes held at individual universities worldwide. Winners of local Visualise Your Thesis programmes are entered into the International Visualise Your Thesis Programme.

Institutional winners who will be participating in Visualise Your Thesis International 2024 are announced, and entries published on the Visualise Your Thesis Figshare repository.

Trending on VYT takes place, rewarding the entrant whose entry has the most views on the VYT International Figshare repository during a set week of the programme. #TrendingOnVYT

The judges select the winning entries, and the Visualise Your Thesis award announcements are made online and in-person.

2024 prizes to be announced soon.

The International Visualise Your Thesis respository is powered by Figshare. Figshare also sponsor the  Trending on Visualise Your Thesis  prize.

For further information, institutions can contact [email protected] .   You can also connect with us by following the Visualise Your Thesis LinkedIn .

Check out the resources below to support you in coordinating your programme.

Powerpoint Resources

Microsoft's PowerPoint Training Resources

Effective Video Storytelling for Researchers

1. Finding your why

Chapter 1 of the 'Effective Video Storytelling for Researchers' series

2. Show, don't tell

Chapter 2 of the 'Effective Video Storytelling for Researchers' series

3. Your video lab at home

Chapter 3 of the 'Effective Video Storytelling for Researchers' series

Copyright videos for Visualise Your The sis Programme

Keeping your entry copyright compliant*

An Introduction to Copyright for Visualise Your The sis TM Programme.

Seeking Permissions*

Using copyright materials for Visualise Your The sis TM Programme.

Accessing expired copyright materials*

Using public domain works for Visualise Your The sis TM Programme.

Protecting your copyright materials*

Using your own materials for Visualise Your The sis TM Programme

* While we endeavour to ensure that all content published in these Visualise Your Thesis videos is correct at the time of publishing, we make no warranty about the accuracy, completeness or reliability of this content. The information provided here is general information only and is not a substitute for legal advice.

View all of the previous entries

Each of the participants whose entries are featured in the galleries won their institution's local Visualise Your Thesis programme, before progressing to the international programme.

Entries are judged on visual impact: how well they presented their research projects as short, engaging, digital narratives. Participants from a variety of disciplines used multi-media, interactivity and their creativity to take the ‘classic conference poster’ to the next level.

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The University maintains a collection of online ANU theses in its  Open Research repository . The University supports the wide dissemination of ANU research into the academic and wider community, and all theses deposited in Open Research appear in the National Library of Australia's Trove service and are discoverable by search engines such as Google.

Your thesis is a major research output, and there are  many benefits to making your thesis available open access .

To support the University's commitment to open access to research, the University requires a copy of all Higher Degree by Research student theses and all Undergraduate Honours theses receiving a mark of First Class, to be deposited in Open Research .

NOTE: If you have submitted your thesis via the Thesis Submission eform in ISIS please do not use this form, as your thesis will be automatically deposited in to Open Research once your award has been granted. For further information please refer to  Submitting a thesis.

Requesting permission

It is your responsibility to request permission for third-party materials that you wish to appear in the online version of your thesis.  You should allow a significant amount of time for the request process, as it often takes many months to confirm permissions.

Your requests to copyright owners for permission should explain that the work will be included in a thesis that is required to be made publicly available online. Contact details are often included on publishers' web sites and forms for copyright permission requests are occasionally available as well.

If no form is provided, this ANU template  can be used to request permission.

You should retain copies of permissions for your own records. Copies of permissions do not need to be submitted to ANU.

If permission has not been obtained by the time your thesis is to be submitted to Open Research, please remove the materials for which permission was not received from the public version of your thesis. In the place of the redacted material/s, you may include a short statement, such as:  Figure (Text/Chart/Diagram etc.) has been removed due to copyright restrictions.”  

If possible, include a reference or a link to the source of the material to enable readers to access the removed content.

Thesis by publication

If you are submitting or have submitted your thesis by publication, you must obtain publishers' permission to include each publication in the public version of your thesis in ANU Open Research. Often in your agreement with the journal or book publisher, you have assigned them all rights to the work, although each publisher's policy differs.

When submitting your request to the publisher:

• Check to see if the publisher has an online permission form on their website
• If the publisher does not have a form, this ANU template  can be used to request permission
• Tell them the amount of the work you wish to use
• State clearly that you are seeking permission to use the work for non-commercial purposes
• Be conscious that the copyright owner has the right to say no
• Be aware that a copyright owner may charge a fee or ask you to sign a licence agreement
• Allow plenty of time, as it may take months for the permission to be granted

If permission has not been obtained at the time your thesis is submitted, please remove the materials for which permission was not received from the public version of your thesis. In the place of the redacted materials, you may include a short statement, such as: " Publication has been removed due to copyright restrictions.”  

Restricting access to your thesis

If you wish to restrict access to all, or part of your thesis you can elect to do so, for up to 12 months, as part of the online submission process. If, after that period, you require an extension to that restriction you will need to make a new application. In the case of a Higher Degree by Research thesis, approval is required from the Dean, Higher Degree Research and can be sought by filling out an Extension of Thesis Restriction of Access Request Form  or emailing  [email protected]  If approved, the Open Research team will be notified and restrict access to the online version of your thesis in line with the decision made.

For an Undergraduate Honours thesis, please send an email to the Head of School, detailing the reasons for the extension of the restriction and the time period being sought. If your request for an extension is approved please send a copy of the approval email to [email protected] and we will action the restriction approval accordingly.

Concerns over publication refusal and plagiarism

Increasingly publishers across a range of disciplines are willing to accept submission for books, or journal articles, where the associated thesis is available via open access. This is also been proven by a number of studies:

• Ramirez et al, 2013 (PDF, 467.75 KB)
• McMillan et al 2011 (PDF, 820.54 KB)  

It is also worthwhile noting that by publishing your thesis open access it will make it available to more potential publishers, as indicated by Harvard University Press Assistant Editor Brian Distelberg in his blog posting ' Can't Find It, Can't Sign It: On Dissertation Embargoes ' 

"I'm always looking out for exciting new scholarship that might make for a good book, whether in formally published journal articles and conference programs, or in the conversation on Twitter and in the history blogosphere, or in conversations with scholars I meet. And so, to whatever extent open access to a dissertation increases the odds of its ideas being read and discussed more widely, I tend to think it increases the odds of my hearing about them."

ANU graduate Barbara Dawson successfully published a book  through the prestigious ANU Press, based on her PhD thesis " In the eye of the beholder : representations of Australian Aborigines in the published works of colonial women writers '

Depositing your thesis in an open access repository such as the University's Open Research repository establishes your identity as the author and makes it much more difficult for others to claim your work as their own. 

Useful videos and blog posts

• Harvard Professors Gary King and Stuart Shieber provide  advice to graduate students  on the benefits of open access, in particular for theses (dissertations).
• If you wish to publish a book from your thesis the blog post  It's a Dissertation not a Book  by Leonard Cassuto provides advice on the rewriting process for books from theses. 
• If you are wondering whether it’s better to make dissertations open access immediately or embargo them look at Dissertation Dilemma: To Embargo or Not to Embargo? By Shawn Smith-Cruz
• Randy Schmidt, Senior Editor at University of British Colombia Press, provides advice on "how to turn a thesis into a book"

Reference documents

• McMillan et al, 2011 (PDF, 820.54 KB)
• ANU Copyright Permission Request form (DOCX, 43.57 KB)
• ANU Thesis by publication permission form (DOCX, 39.02 KB)
• Extension of Thesis Restriction of Access Request Form (PDF, 103.66 KB)
• Permission to Deposit Honours or Masters thesis (PDF, 60.56 KB)

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Use this set of questions to approach writing your introduction.

• What is your topic of investigation, your research focus? What did you actually set out to investigate?
• Why did you undertake this investigation? What questions are you asking? Or what are your hypotheses, objectives or aims? Can you formulate these clearly? Do you need to provide a problem statement as well?
• What is your thesis, the underlying argument connecting all the parts? Can you state this clearly somewhere in your Introduction? 
• Do you need to justify the scope of your study? You may need to tell your reader precisely what you are covering and what you are not covering and why, perhaps to offset potential criticism for not having done something you never intended to do.
• Why is the research you have undertaken important? Can you demonstrate its centrality? Or how is your study different from what others have done in the research field? What contribution will your research make to knowledge?  (This may be conveyed through research context, the next point).
• How much research context or background information should you provide (can be extensive in some theses-even up to 20 or more pages)? What might you include here, and why? Consider the relevance of what to cover in terms of your research objectives, your thesis aims. This tells readers the research context out of which you are working, and may provide the opportunity for you to indicate the nature of your contribution as well as the value of your research.
• Should there be a literature review in the introduction (sometimes used to provide research context), or elsewhere or not at all?
• Do you need to explain your methodology or experimental procedure, or provide a discussion of the theoretical framework of your thesis here or in a separate chapter, or not at all?
• Should you include a chapter-by-chapter outline of your thesis? If not, what other method might you use to convey the procedure/structure of your thesis? How will you indicate what you are going to do and in what order you will do these things?
• Are there any other questions relevant to your research or disciplinary needs that you want to add?

How you organise and develop your introduction in dealing with these questions is up to you.

When writing the introduction, make use of words and phrases to:

• indicate coverage: examines, presents, provides an overview, outlines, analyses, explores etc. and
• indicate the key message: demonstrates, highlights, provides insight into, argues etc.

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P rocedure: Higher Degree by Research: Submission and Examination of Theses

This document describes the thesis submission and examination procedures for the Higher Degree by Research (HDR) programs Master of Philosophy, Professional Doctorate, or Doctor of Philosophy.

• This document should be read in conjunction with the Research Awards Rule .
• In cases where a Delegated Authority is also Primary Supervisor for a candidate, the Associate Dean appoints an alternate individual to be a Delegated Authority under the Research Awards Rules for the purposes of that candidate.
• If at any stage of the submission or examination process an allegation of academic misconduct is raised it is investigated under the Academic Integrity Rule 2021 . Advice is available from [email protected] .

Pre-Submission of Thesis

Oral presentation.

• An oral presentation is a required milestone, which is completed satisfactorily prior to the submission of a thesis. For further details, please refer to the HDR Candidature Progression procedure .

Notification of Intent to Submit

• Two months prior to submission, and after consulting their supervisory panel, a candidate should commence the Notification of Intent to Submit (NOI) milestone containing:
• Candidate name;
• Candidate ID;
• Thesis title;
• Date on which the thesis is expected to be submitted; and
• Confirmation from the Primary Supervisor that the candidate has consulted with their panel
• If the intended submission date changes, the candidate uses the ISIS Manage My Degree eF orm to update their intended submission date.

Early Submission

• A candidate wishing to submit prior to the minimum duration for the program specified in the Research Awards Rule must obtain the approval of the Delegated Authority for early submission, prior to the submission date.

Format - Length

• The maximum length for a Doctor of Philosophy thesis is 100,000 words and a Master of Philosophy or Professional Doctorate is 60,000 words. This figure is exclusive of footnotes, tables, figures, maps, bibliographies and appendices, but appendices must be limited to material necessary in support of the main argument of the thesis.
• Prior to notification of intention to submit, the Delegated Authority may approve:
• A new length for theses in excess of this length;
• An alternate format for expressing the maximum requirement - such as page count - if words are not an appropriate measure.

Format - Content

• The first page of the thesis gives its title, the candidate's name in full and the month and year of its submission for examination. It includes the statement:

"A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor [or Master, as appropriate] of Philosophy of The Australian National University."

• It also includes a copyright notice providing the full legal name of the author, centred at the bottom of the page:

© Copyright by [Candidate’s Full Name] [Year]

All Rights Reserved

• The second page contains a statement signed by the candidate, indicating the extent to which the thesis is their own original work, if the research is conducted jointly with another person, clearly indicates the nature and extent of the candidate’s contribution to the research, and a word count or equivalent.
• Acknowledgments are included in the following pages.
• Third party editorial advice is provided as per the Guideline: Higher Degree by Research - Editing of Theses.
• When third party editorial advice has been provided the name of the editor and a brief description of the service rendered is printed in the acknowledgements as per the Australian standards for editing practice . If the third party editor's current or former area of academic specialisation is similar to that of the candidate, this is also stated in the acknowledgements.
• An abstract of 250-500 words is on the page or pages following the acknowledgement. The electronic version of the abstract must use standard text only.
• A table of contents appears following the abstract.
• A bibliography of works to which reference has been made is included at the end of the thesis. The bibliographical standards applied are consistent with the discipline.

Thesis in Standard Format

• A thesis submitted in standard format is of International Standards Organisation (ISO) A4 size (297mm x 210mm), unless the diagrams, tables etc. do not fit appropriately on this size, in which case it may be printed on ISO B4 size (353mm x 250mm).
• The format of text in a thesis:
• Is double spaced or one and a half spaced. Single spacing is used only for indented quotations, footnotes and bibliographies.
• Is in a font that is easy to read, and no smaller than 11 points for text and 9 points for footnote text. For a digital thesis, it is recommended the use of Arial or another Sans-Serif font. For more information, please refer to the ANU Style Guide .
• All margins are with header and footing settings as 2.5cm from the top and bottom:

Thesis by Compilation

• The format of a thesis by compilation is outlined in the HDR Thesis by Compilation and Thesis by Creative Works Procedure .

Thesis in an Alternative Format

• A thesis is in an alternative format if it consists of, or includes, video recordings, film or other works of visual or sonic arts, computer software, digital material or other non-written material.
• Candidates intending to submit for examination a thesis in an alternative format obtain endorsement from their supervisory panel, and approval from the Delegated Authority about the format of their thesis more than 12 months prior to submission, and no later than 6months prior to submission.

Thesis by Creative Works

• The submission of a thesis by creative works is undertaken as per the HDR Thesis by Compilation and Thesis by Creative Works Procedure .

Use of Confidential Material

• Use of confidential information in a thesis is according to the Use of Confidential or Restricted Information Theses procedure.

Prior to Thesis Submission

• The candidate is required to upload their final thesis to the iThenticate tool in order to generate a Similarity Report. Prior to submission candidates should share their Similarity Report with their Primary Supervisor in order to address any potential academic integrity issues. Once any identified issues are addressed the candidate should generate a final Similarity Report ready for uploading as part of the Thesis Submission eForm process.

S ubmission Process

• The candidate is required to upload one electronic copy of their thesis via the Thesis Submission eForm for access by the appointed examiners.
• The candidate is required to upload an iThenticate Similarity Report (generated via uploading of the final thesis to iThenticate) to the Thesis Submission eForm.

Supervisor’s Endorsement

• The Primary Supervisor confirms to the Graduate Research Office that the thesis is in the correct format for submission and determines whether to endorse submission of the thesis. Where a Primary Supervisor considers that a thesis will experience difficulty in the examination process, they do not endorse its submission.
• The supervisor’s endorsement confirms that the thesis title and abstract provided by the candidate are correct.
• The Primary Supervisor certifies whether to the best of their knowledge the candidate has complied with the University's rules and regulations relating to candidature for the degree.
• The Primary Supervisor reviews the iThenticate Similarity Report and undertakes a final academic integrity check for potential plagiarism. If satisfied, the Primary Supervisor can endorse the thesis submission certifying to the best of their knowledge that there are no identified academic integrity issues.
• If the academic integrity check prompts the supervisor to request further amendments to the thesis due to unresolved academic integrity issues, the Primary Supervisor can request further edits to the thesis to be undertaken by the candidate through the eForm. The candidate will then have an opportunity to re-upload another updated Similarity Report and final thesis for Primary Supervisor endorsement.
• Once the Primary Supervisor endorses the thesis submission, certifying to the best of their knowledge that there are no identified academic integrity issues the Thesis Submission eForm is complete.

Submission without Supervisor’s Endorsement

• Where a Primary Supervisor does not endorse the submission of a thesis and a candidate still wishes to submit, the Primary Supervisor provides a statement to the Delegated Authority indicating why they do not believe the thesis suitable for submission to examiners.
• The Delegated Authority will organise for the thesis to be reviewed by a member of academic staff who is not the Primary Supervisor.
• On receipt of advice from the member of academic staff, the Delegated Authority will:
• Meet with, and provide advice to, the candidate; and
• Provide written feedback from the reader including advice on the suitability for submission to the candidate.
• If the candidate still wishes to submit without the endorsement of their supervisor, the submission and examination process proceeds as per the standard process. The Delegated Authority will recommend examiners on behalf of the Primary Supervisor. Examiners must not be notified that the thesis has been submitted without the endorsement of the supervisor and the University until a final outcome of the examination process is determined by the Associate Dean, and the award of the degree is determined.
• Where a Primary Supervisor, after discussions with the candidate, does not endorse the submission of a thesis on academic integrity grounds and a candidate still wishes to submit, the Primary Supervisor provides a statement to the Delegated Authority indicating why they do not believe the thesis suitable for submission to examiners. This should include a detailed list of potential academic integrity issues that have not been resolved after requesting these to be addressed and the candidate being provided sufficient time to address the issues.
• The Delegated Authority will review the recommendations from the Primary Supervisor in undertaking a further academic integrity check to determine any outstanding academic integrity issues.
• The Delegated Authority will then:
• Decide if the thesis should proceed to examination if they have determined, to the best of their knowledge, that there are no identified academic issues; or
• Meet with, and provide advice to, the candidate if they have determined there are remaining identified academic integrity issues; and
• Provide written feedback outlining any academic integrity issues that are required to be addressed by the candidate prior to submission.
• If the Delegated Authority determines there are remaining identified academic integrity issues in 41 (b, c), the Delegated Authority can return the Thesis Submission eForm to the candidate for amendment or close the form. A new Thesis Submission eForm is then made available to the candidate to enable resubmission once the potential academic integrity issues have been addressed by the candidate as outlined by the Delegated Authority.

Thesis Examination

Appointment of Examiners

• The Nomination of Examiners form is completed once a candidate provides a notification of intent to submit but before they submit their thesis .
• A candidate is entitled to suggest potential examiners to their supervisor, and to provide the names of persons that they would prefer not to examine the thesis. A candidate is not entitled to be informed of whether their suggestions have been followed in the appointment of the examiners.
• Supervisors confirm the expected availability of examiners prior to completing the Nomination of Examiners form.
• A minimum of two external expert examiners who have international standing are appointed by the Associate Dean on the recommendation of the Delegated Authority.
• Three or more examiners may be appointed to provide the necessary breadth of expertise for the research topic.
• Examiners are of international standing in a discipline relevant to the thesis research with some experience in examining theses. International standing may be demonstrated through a number of means including but not limited to:
• Publication record;
• Employment record;
• Contribution to the field; and
• Peer regard and esteem measures.
• If an examiner agrees to their nomination, they are informed of any changes to the proposed submission date. An alternate examiner is appointed by the Associate Dean if the initial examiner is no longer available due to a change in submission date.
• An additional examiner may be appointed by the Associate Dean on the recommendation of the Delegated Authority subsequent to the initial appointment:
• To resolve disagreements in the thesis examination process; or
• In cases where an examiner’s report has not been received for an extended period of time. The examiner has been withdrawn and has been notified by GRO.
• In determining the award of the degree, all examiners reports received are considered.

Conflict of Interest

• Any examiner conflict of interest or potential conflict of interest must be declared to the Associate Dean by anyone who becomes aware of it, and may include but is not limited to:
• Involvement with the project on which the thesis is presented;
• Collaboration with the candidate or members of the supervisory panel within the last five years;
• A close personal relationship with the candidate or members of the supervisory panel;
• A financial or personal prestige interest in the outcomes of the research;
• Ethical, personal, political or religious views that may be in conflict with the thesis or marking process; or
• Ownership of or employment with an organisation directly affected by the research.
• On receiving notification of an actual or potential conflict of interest the Associate Dean discusses the potential conflict with relevant parties, which must include the Delegated Authority, and also includes (but is not limited to):
• The supervisory panel including Primary Supervisor and chair of panel; and/or
• The examiner.
• On the basis of those discussions, the Associate Dean determines whether:
• A prima facie conflict of interest exists and so excludes the relevant examiner from the examination process; or
• That no prima facie conflict of interest exists and allows the examiner to continue in their role.
• If it is unclear whether a conflict of interest exists, the relevant examiner is to be excluded from the examination process
• The rationale for any determination is recorded on the candidate file.

Examination Process

• Examiners of Theses submitted in standard format or as a thesis by compilation, are provided a copy of the thesis and the University guidelines for Examination of HDR Theses, and are requested to examine the thesis and return a report within two months.
• Once a candidate has submitted their thesis for examination:
• Except in the course of an oral examination, an examiner must not knowingly communicate about the research, the thesis or the process of examination directly with the candidate until the thesis has been approved for award;
• Except in the course of an oral examination, a candidate must not knowingly communicate directly with an examiner about the research, the thesis or the process of examination until the thesis has been approved for award;
• In the case of an oral examination communications between the examiner and the candidate will be confined to the scheduled oral examination meeting;
• Supervisors must not knowingly communicate about the research , the thesis or the process of examination with examiners until the thesis has been approved for award;
• Examiners must not knowingly communicate about the research, the thesis or the process of examination with the supervisor until the thesis has been approved for award;
• Examiners must not knowingly disclose the content of a thesis to an external party until a thesis has been approved for award, subject to clause 51;
• Examiners are able to ask for clarification of any material in the thesis through the Graduate Research Office who will seek advice subject to clause 52.
• Communications are subject to any approvals under the HDR Use of Confidential or Restricted Information in Theses procedure.
• The Associate Dean may, at the request of an examiner, nominate a person other than a member of the Supervisory Panel to provide further information about the thesis or, in the case of joint work, the candidate's contribution to the thesis. The Associate Dean or the nominee may seek advice from the Supervisory Panel.
• Examiners make one of the following four recommendations after completing the examination of the thesis:
• that the candidate be granted the award; or
• that the candidate be granted the award subject to corrections or revisions required by the examiners in the thesis to be made to the satisfaction of the Delegated Authority in the electronic copy intended for deposit with the University Library; or
• that the candidate be permitted to submit a revised thesis for re-examination; or
• that the candidate be failed.
• The Graduate Research Office notifies the College when all examiner’s reports have been submitted or otherwise accounted for.
• After consideration of the examiners' reports, the Delegated Authority recommends to the relevant Associate Dean:
• That the candidate be granted the award; or
• That the candidate be granted the award subject to making any corrections or revisions in the thesis; or
• That the candidate be re-examined by resubmission of thesis or re-examination of coursework or both;
• That the candidate be failed.
• If there is no clear recommendation on the award of the degree arising from the examiner’s reports, the Delegated Authority works towards a recommendation drawing on the Higher Degree by Research: Examiners’ Reports Recommendations Guideline . Potential actions may include but are not limited to:
• The appointment of an additional examiner;
• The appointment of a Committee comprising the Delegated Authority and two additional staff of the University with relevant expertise, not including the primary supervisor to consider the original reports received;
• Consultation with the supervisor who may advise on the reports, however not provide a recommendation on the outcome
• Requiring an oral examination
• Before a Delegated Authority recommends that a candidate be failed where all examiners’ reports have not recommended a fail, the divergent reports guideline should be followed.
• A decision may be based on fewer examiners' reports than initially solicited, but no fewer than two, only if the Delegated Authority has made the decision and GRO have removed the examiner.
• The Associate Dean approves the recommendation, or an alternative outcome.
• Examiners do not recommend the award of another degree. On receipt of the outcome of the examination of Revise and Resubmit, or Fail, the candidate may apply to the Delegated Authority for a transfer from the Doctor of Philosophy to the Master of Philosophy. The Associate Dean determines that a candidate be re-examined by resubmission of thesis, or that the candidate not be awarded the Doctor of Philosophy.
• For a thesis by compilation, corrections and revisions normally refer to corrections and revisions to the thesis introduction, conclusion, or linking text, and not to the papers themselves where they have been published, or accepted for publication.
• For a thesis by compilation, papers published or accepted for publication during the examination process should be included in the final version of the thesis.
• Revision and resubmission of a thesis may occur once only for the same degree program.
• Examiners who recommend revision and resubmission of a thesis:
• Specify what is required of the candidate before re-examination, on the understanding that anonymous examiners' reports, in full or in part, will be made available to the candidate by the Graduate Research Office ; and
• Indicate , subject to availability, whether or not they are willing to re-examine the thesis.
• The candidate is given a time limit of one year from the time of notification in which to revise the thesis and submit it for re-examination. A maximum extension of one further year may be granted by the Delegated Authority.
• When a revised thesis is resubmitted for examination, it should not include a separate written response to the original examiners comments.
• Access to examiner’s reports is restricted to the:
• Associate Dean;
• Delegated Authority;
• Head of the relevant academic area;
• Supervisor(s);
• Any members of a Committee appointed by the Delegated Authority to consider conflicting examiner’s reports;
• ANU committees considering the award of prizes for excellence in theses, and;
• Other ANU delegates who require access to the examiner reports for other processes such as academic integrity.
• Anonymous reports must be made available in full or in part to the candidate after deletion of any section of a report an examiner has specified may not be made available to the candidate or which may identify the examiner.
• Where a thesis contains confidential material, or a candidate explicitly requests, the Graduate Research Office will take all reasonable steps to ensure that theses are not retained by the examiners and provided back to the candidate, where relevant.

Oral Examination

• The Delegated Authority may determine that a candidate undertakes an oral examination as part of the thesis examination process in a number of circumstances, including:
• Where an examiner recommends revision and resubmission of the thesis or failure, in order to give all parties maximum opportunity to explore the body of work submitted for examination;
• Where the Delegated Authority intends to recommend a result of fail though not all examiners’ reports have recommended a fail.
• Where the candidate is undertaking an approved Dual Award program which requires an oral examination; or
• Where a candidate was examined orally before being permitted to revise and resubmit the thesis, if an examiner of the revised thesis requests a further oral examination.
• The Graduate Research Office arranges oral examinations except for Dual Award PhD degrees where the examination process is set out in the agreement between the ANU and the partner institution.
• The Graduate Research Office contacts the candidate if an oral examination is required by the Delegated Authority. Examiners provide a copy of the draft reports, and/or specific questions and/or general matters to be addressed by the candidate.
• The Delegated Authority will decide whether an oral examination is to be held in-person or online. If in-person, it should be held at the ANU campus unless otherwise approved by the Delegated Authority. Arrangements for attendance by examiners are made by the Graduate Research Office.
• The Associate Dean, or their delegate, will appoint an Oral Examination Chair.
• An examiner who is unable to be present will be asked to correspond with the Oral Examination Chair indicating any points to be raised. The Chair acts on behalf of the absent examiner and will report the outcome to that examiner and to the Delegated Authority.
• A candidate brings a copy of the thesis paginated in the same way as the thesis submitted for examination.
• The oral examination is undertaken on the substance of the candidate's thesis and on the candidate’s knowledge of its subject background. The conduct of the oral examination will be determined by the Oral Examination Chair. The only persons present are the candidate, the examiner(s) and the Oral Examination Chair. The candidate may request a support person to attend as an observer only.
• The Oral Examination Chair may request to the Delegated Authority that a person other than a candidate's supervisors be present to provide further information about the candidate's thesis (e.g. for clarification or contextual material), or, in the case of joint work, the candidate’s contribution to the thesis. This request is considered by the Associate Dean.
• Examiners' recommendations on the outcome of the oral examination are not communicated to the candidate, either during or after the examination. On completion of the examination process, examiners' recommendations and a report on the examination as a whole are submitted in confidence to the Delegated Authority. On receipt of the outcome of the examination process, the candidate is provided with an anonymous report.

Written examination

• If an oral examination is required and in the opinion of the Delegated Authority, it is not practicable to hold an oral examination, the candidate takes a written examination, set by the examiners of the thesis, covering the field, which an oral examination would have covered.
• A written examination will be invigilated.
• The Graduate Research Office sends the candidate's answers to a written examination to the examiners of the thesis who take them into account in the preparation of their reports.

Thesis Deposit and Open Access

• On approval of the thesis, the candidate submits an electronic copy of the thesis to ANU Digital Thesis Collections .
• The thesis will be openly available in accordance with University policy on open access unless the University Library has been requested to restrict the availability of the thesis in line with any approvals under the Higher degree by research - use of confidential or restricted information in theses procedure and the Intellectual Property Policy.
• For deposit of the digital version of the thesis the candidate provides the thesis in a single file, or alternatively:
• Any files in the original file format used to create the final version of the thesis (including still images, video, sound etc.) .
• Separate files for any confidential material or, if the confidential material is throughout the whole thesis, a separate file for the whole thesis .
• A pdf of all text portions of the printed thesis (excluding any confidential material) .
• A list of all files - and software they were created with - that are contained in the package.
• In the small number of cases where the thesis format will not be able to be presented this way, the candidate should contact the Library for assistance.
• A department may agree with a candidate to the deposit of a further copy of the thesis in the departmental library.
• Unless subject to any copyright requirements as part of a thesis by compilation, candidates retain the copyright of their thesis and make such use of it as they wish.

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Providing open access to our ANU theses collection will expand engagement with our research, provide visibility to the ground-breaking work being done, and support the careers of the ANU academic community

Students and academics at the Australian National University have been producing significant and original research since the university first opened.

Much of this research was put forward in PhD and higher degree research theses – covering a wide range of topics, across many disciplines. These theses have made a huge impact to the economy, society, environment and culture beyond their contribution to academia.

ANU Provost Professor Mike Calford believes that ANU research has had an extraordinary impact around the world.

“One of the roles of a university is to transform society with our research,” said Professor Calford.

“I am very proud of the research generated by The Australian National University. The stock of knowledge produced by our researchers generates new ideas, revolutionises technology and helps to transform society.”

“But above that, I am incredibly proud of our students. ANU has produced not only world-class research, but world-class researchers, practitioners, academics and business people who have made important and transformative contributions to the community.”

The ANU Library has digitised the entire collection of theses developed by ANU PhD and research higher degree students. All those without restrictions have been made available online through the Open Research Repository , to increase their accessibility and research impact.

This is part of the University’s continued commitment to digitisation and providing access to our world-class research.

Professor Calford recognises the importance of the research recorded in the theses collection.

“We can clearly see the huge influence that ANU theses have made to modern research. Just last year we had over 935,000 downloads of ANU theses, and almost 90% of these were downloaded by researchers outside Australia.”

“This project will see research once largely hidden from view being exposed to people from all around the world. By making our unique and original research available in an open access collection, we boost research knowledge.”

University Librarian Roxanne Missingham is excited about the possibilities of greater access to ANU research.

“Providing open access to our ANU theses collection will expand engagement with our research, provide visibility to the ground-breaking work being done, and support the careers of the ANU academic community,” said Roxanne Missingham.

“We are also reducing barriers to access information. This will assist not only researchers, but those who are able to benefit from the outcomes of the research.”

The ANU Library will be showcasing some of the 13,000+ theses that you can now access online through the Open Research repository.

You will be able to see new theses online following the introduction of a new digital system to support higher degree students in the University.

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