Doctoral Thesis

• The Format
• Presentation of doctoral theses at UPF and edition grants managed by the library
• Publishing Theses and Dissertations Online (TDX)
• Look up the submitted theses
• Look up the inscibed theses

0. Monograph
0. Compilation of a minimum of three pieces of research work, with an overall introduction providing coherence and some global conclusions.

Neither Thesis format must exceed 300 pages including bibliography (excluding annexes), based on a layout of approximately 35 lines per page and 70 characters per line.

Once the Thesis has been inscribed, it must be completed within a maximum of three years for full time students and within six years for part time students.

The Director of Thesis, or Tutor, will present to the Postgraduate Commission at the start of each academic year a written report on the research student's activities and the current state of the student's research. The POP Commission will evaluate annually the compliance of each student with the training activities and his or her research progress. When the research student, in accordance with his or her Director or Tutor, considers he or she is prepared to officially defend the Doctoral Thesis the Postgraduate Commission should be notified. The Commission will then seek two external evaluations from renowned academics. Once these evaluations have been received, the Commission will endorse or not the presentation of the thesis taking into consideration these evaluations and the Director of Thesis or Tutor's report. For the POP Commission to authorise the reading of the Thesis, it must reach the minimum level of quality required for it to be published by a good publishing house if it is in a monograph format, or if it is a compilation of articles, these should be publishable by a good quality academic journal.

If the presentation of the thesis is not endorsed, the reasons and academic aspects that need revising will be laid out. Thesis can then be resubmitted to the Commission for evaluation once the relevant modifications have been made.

Theses which are based on a compilation (not a monograph) must attend to the following norms:

0. Each component section must have the format of an article or of a book chapter.
0. The introduction and conclusions must establish and detail the scientific coherence between the component parts. The introduction must introduce the different pieces of work and justify their thematic unity while the conclusions must establish a summary of the results obtained globally, a discussion of the results and the final conclusions.
0. Only one of the component articles can be co-authored. In such cases, a report must be presented where the authors explains which fundamental part of the article the research student has produced. In exceptional cases the Commission may accept a second co-authored article.
0. No piece of work can form part of more than one Thesis. If articles are co-authored with researchers who are not doctors, the co-author must renounce, in writing, to presenting the piece of work as part of his or her Doctoral Thesis.
0. The pieces of work must be dated after the student's admission to the PhD programme and must include the author's affiliation to the UPF.

Once the presentation of the thesis has been endorsed, the POP Commission will propose the appointment of members to constitute the tribunal that evaluates it. The two external evaluators will form part of the tribunal unless there are expressed circumstances that advise against this.

In cases where one of the members of the tribunal is co-author of one of the articles of the Thesis being evaluated an explicit agreement by the Postgraduate Commission is required.