Thesis submission

Find out more about the thesis submission process and requirements.
Entry form for examination
You should initiate the process of approving the examiners for your final examination by submitting an Exam entry form request via your Surrey-Self Service research programme record. Your supervisor will nominate an examination panel which will be scrutinised and approved at a faculty level and then by the Admission, Progression and Examination Sub-committee.
The Exam Entry form must be completed and submitted at the same time as the request for transfer to completing status is made. If no request to transfer to completing status is made then you must ensure that the Exam entry form is submitted no later than two months before you intend to submit your thesis. Failure to submit the form in time will delay your viva voce examination.
Thesis submission for examination
You must submit an electronic version of your thesis to researchdegrees@surrey.ac.uk by the end of your registry end date. Most postgraduate research students submit in advance of their submission deadline.
Please ensure that you include a signed statement of originality which can be downloaded from the useful documents page on MySurrey.
For submissions containing multiple files, folder structures and/or multi-media files such as videos and music - please contact researchdegrees@surrey.ac.uk in advance, and we will set you up with an alternative method of submission.
The Research Degrees Office do not routinely provide a hard copy of your thesis to the examination team. External examiners can contact the Research Degrees Office to discuss options for provision of a hard copy.
Format of your thesis
Deposit of your electronic thesis
All doctoral degrees and MPhils are examined by thesis and an oral examination commonly known as the viva voce examination.
Once you have done your viva and your corrections have been signed off, you must deposit an electronic copy of your thesis via the E-theses Deposit form. The description of your thesis and the file will be open and accessible as possible in the Open Research portal.
Using copyrighted materials in your thesis
When researching and writing your thesis you need to be aware of copyright issues. The Internet makes copying very easy but, unless there is an explicit statement to say otherwise, works on the web including texts, images such as photographs, film stills, diagrams and illustrations are covered by copyright and you will usually need the permission of the copyright owner to include them in your thesis.