PhD Health Sciences CDRF 2025-26

Academic Regulations: Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences

School	Health Sciences
Final Award	Doctor of Philosophy With exit awards of: Master of Philosophy
Programme(s)	PhD Health Sciences (Full-Time CDRF students)
Last modified	April 2025

The Academic Regulations apply to and regulate the programme(s) listed above.

On occasion, programmes can be exempted from one or more of the clauses in the Regulations; one or more of the clauses can be varied; and programmes can impose additional requirements.

Exemptions are characterised by the omission of the relevant clause.
Variations are characterised by the replacement of the clause with alternative wording.
Additions are characterised by requirements in addition to those detailed in the Academic regulations.

The programmes listed have approval from the Academic Quality and Standards Subcommittee for the exemptions and/or variations and/or additions to the regulations noted below.

Code of Practice for Research Degree Candidature and Supervision

Section 18: Progression Monitoring and Reviews)

Summary of timings of progression reviews for research students who enrolled on their doctoral studies on or after 1 August 2016 (full-time programmes)
	First Attempt		Second Attempt
	Submission window	Decision deadline	Submission window	Decision deadline
First Progression Review	7-9 months	Before the end of month 10	10-11 months	Before the end of month 12
Second Progression Review (Confirmation)	18-20 months	Before the end of month 21	21-23 months	Before the end of month 24
Third Progression Review	30-32 months	Before the end of month 33	33-35 months	Before the end of month 36

Variation

Students undertaking the full-time PhD Health Sciences programme through the Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship will undertake Progression Reviews in accordance with the following revised timings:

Summary of timings of progression reviews for research students who enrolled on their doctoral studies on or after 1 August 2016 (full-time programmes)
	First Attempt		Second Attempt
	Submission window	Decision deadline	Submission window	Decision deadline
First Progression Review	10-16 months	Before the end of month 17	17-18 months	Before the end of month 19
Second Progression Review (Confirmation)	24-26 months	Before the end of month 27	27-29 months	Before the end of month 30
Third Progression Review	36-38 months	Before the end of month 39	39-41 months	Before the end of month 42

Regulations for Research Degrees

Section 6: Duration of Research Degrees

Degree	Minimum Length of Candidature		Maximum Length of Candidature
	Full-time	Part-time	Full-time	Part-time
PhD – Standard Route	24	36	48	84

Variation

Degree	Minimum Length of Candidature		Maximum Length of Candidature
	Full-time	Part-time	Full-time	Part-time
PhD – Standard Route	36	-	60	-

Addition

Students undertaking the full-time PhD Health Sciences programme through the Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship will be required to spend 25% of their candidature in clinical practice.

These regulations should be read in conjunction with the Doctoral Programme Profile.

Disclaimer:

As a research-led University, we undertake a continuous review of our programmes to ensure quality enhancement and to manage our resources. As a result, these regulations may be revised during a student’s period of registration, however, any revision will be balanced against the requirement that the student should receive the educational service expected. Please read our Disclaimer to see why, when and how changes may be made to a student’s programme.