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PhD and MPhil in Computing Science

If you are a PhD or MPhil student, the Postgraduate Tutor is your first point of contact for personal problems. The Postgraduate Tutor is Tom Anderson. For more general, practical problems, please contact the programme director. The PhD and MPhil Programme Director is Santosh Shrivastava.

There is a mailing list () and a newsgroup for PhD and MPhil students (ncl.cs.phd). The definitive list of mailing list members is on unix.ncl.ac.uk at /usr/adm/lists/ncl (cs-phd.list). If you are a current PhD/MPhil student, and not on the list, you should contact the School Secretary, Anke Jackson to be added. Catherine McGurk is our Postgraduate Secretary and deals with all adminstrative matters relating to postgraduate research students. A list of all current PhD and MPhil students is available.

The Graduate School

The Graduate School in the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering (SAgE) can help you whether you are still thinking about applying to study for a postgraduate degree, and while you are a student here. There is lots of useful information for prospective and current MPhil and PhD students on their website.

The Faculty Postgraduate Student Committee is a forum for postgraduate students to air their views on matters which affect all postgraduates in the Faculty, and to discuss developments affecting them. There are three Computing Science representatives, one for each year of a typical PhD. Occasionally students are asked for their views on matters.

Thesis Writing

Thesis-in-a-box

For the latex heads out there, here is a thesis-in-a-box (375K .zip) - courtesy of Einar. All you need to do now is insert your work and you've got yourself a doctorate....

The ncl-thesis-template.pdf file (included in the .zip) shows what the output looks like when it is all compiled. Instructions for use are also available.

Enjoy, but use it at your own risk!

Some useful links for guidelines for writing theses can be found on the Newcastle Research Group website, and the School of Chemical and Process Engineering website. The list of completed PhD Theses gives an idea of the range of topics researched by PhD students.

Prizes

The Conference of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC), in conjunction with the British Computer Society (BCS) annually selects for publication the best British PhD/DPhil dissertations in computer science. Over thirty theses have been selected for publication since the scheme began in 1990. The scheme aims to make more visible the significant contribution made by Britain - in particular by postgraduate students - to computer science. Further details of the competition can be found on the CPHC website.

Prospective Students

If you are thinking about studying for a research degree, and would like to find out more about what degrees we offer, and what is involved, please read our admissions pages.