Submission of Research Proposal

After registration full-time students are required to submit a research proposal six months after registration and part-time students are required to submit a research proposal twelve months after registration.

As soon as a student registers, the supervisor should contact the GSC representative from the school to find out the school’s procedure to access and approve a research proposal prior to submission to the faculty.  

Click here for guidelines on the preparation of a research proposal.

Once approval for submission has been obtained from the school, the student is required to submit the research proposal together with the completed research proposal form and a signed statement of principles for postgraduate supervision.  

When a proposal is received by a faculty officer, the faculty officer confirms receipt, date-stamps the research proposal and checks for the accompanying documentation mentioned above.  The student’s record on OSS is updated.  An acknowledgement letter is ordered from OSS and emailed to the student, GSC representative and supervisor. The research proposal is then sent to the chair: GSC for approval.  Based on the outcome a letter is emailed to the student and copied to the GSC representative and supervisor. The faculty officer enters details of the research proposal onto the next GSC agenda for noting.