phd thesis template uio

Overview of forms and templates

Application and admission.

• Contract for admission to the PhD programme (docx)

Contract with an external party (docx)

Agreement concerning institute affiliation (docx)  

Agreement for third party cooperation with UiO/OUS/company for Industrial PhD (docx)

Agreement for two party cooperation between UiO and public company for Public Sector PhD (docx)  

Project description (docx)

Peer review of PhD project (docx)

Start-up and development meetings

• Start-up and development meetings (formerly called performance appraisals): report (docx)

Mid-term evaluation

• The candidate’s self-report (docx)
• Mid-term evaluation protocol (docx)  
• Mid-term evaluation - routine description (docx)  
• Application for extension (docx)
• Application for corona extension (docx)

Educational component

• Application for approval of the educational component (docx)
• Research period at an institution abroad (docx)  

Supervision

• Contract for the change of supervisors (docx)  

Thesis, evaluation and public defence

• Application for evaluation of thesis for the degree of PhD (docx)
• Co-author declaration (docx)  
• Declaration of procured permits (docx)
• Proposal for evaluation committee and chair of the defence (docx)  
• Declaration of impartiality (docx)  
• Title of the trial lecture (docx)
• Summary (docx)

Voluntary termination

• Voluntary termination (docx)

Doctoral thesis

PhD candidates’ faculty or department will cover the cost of printing a specific number of thesis copies. You can also order extra copies for private use in the same order without VAT.

Order printing

There are two different ways you can order the printing of your PhD thesis:

• Send the thesis as a PDF file to [email protected] .
• Hand in the PDF file on a USB flash drive to the Graphic Centre (opening times are Monday to Friday, 9 am to 3 pm). See map .

Requisition form

Candidates, together with the faculty or institute, need to complete a requisition form in order to print their doctoral thesis. You can download the requisition form from Graphic Centre's web store.

• The candidate must fill out all the fields marked green. The blue fields must be filled out by the faculty or institute. Submit the form in Excel format together with your PhD files. 

File format and dimensions

• The thesis and attachments must be submitted to the Graphic Centre as PDF files in A4 format.
• Note that most theses are printed in the format 17x24 cm. This corresponds to around 81% of A4. The Graphic Centre will scale down your files.
• LaTeX users: Please submit in A4 format.

Cover page, title page, summary, photo of the candidate and colophon page

• UiO uses standardised cover pages. Candidates are not permitted to use their own design for the cover page.
• Candidate's name
• Thesis title and subtitle
• The UiO unit of the candidate
• Year of public defence
• ISSN/ISBN number
• Abstract for the back page (max. 1200 characters including spaces)
• Photo of the candidate for the back page (formats: jpg/tiff/png/psd)
• If submission occurs in one year and the public defence follows the year after, the UiO cover will show year of defence.
• The Graphic Centre has the ISSN series for all faculties apart from Faculty of Dentistry and Medicine, who submits a unique number from their ISBN series on the requisition form.

Printing costs to be covered by candidate

Copies for private use can be ordered at the same time as the main order. Specify the number of private copies in the requisition form.

Printing costs to be invoiced

The printing of additional copies can be invoiced, but you must give all invoice details in the requisition form. 

Print time and delivery

• You need to submit the order 4–5 weeks before the public defence.
• You will receive the cover page and a print file via e-mail for approval. Send the approval to [email protected]
• The faculty/institute will receive the printed thesis 2 weeks before the public defence.
• Any private copies can be collected from the Graphic Centre.  See map .

The requisiton form will automatically calculate the total cost. 

Please note that VAT is added to all additional orders.

• The faculty/institute covers a specific number of copies. Contact your department to find out how many.
• Extra copies must be paid by card or Vipps upon collection, or you may request an invoice to be sent. Remember to give complete invoice information.

DUO Research Archive

• The University of Oslo recommends that all candidates upload their thesis digitally in the DUO Research Archive.
• When you make your thesis available in DUO, it involves duties and responsibilities for both UiO and you as the author .  
• The Graphic Centre can also upload the thesis upon request.
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Place your order

Orders covered by your unit, additional orders.

Private orders

If you have any questions, please contact the Graphic Centre: [email protected]

Thesis, evaluation and public defence - PhD

Thesis: requirements and guidelines.

• PhD Regulations
• Information on resources and library services
• Scope, length, language
• Article-based theses
• Requirements and duties in relation to supervision

Submission and printing of the thesis

• Before submission
• Where do you submit the thesis?
• What is the submission format?
• Template for submission
• Rejected thesis – resubmission
• What happens after you submit?
• Who performs the adjudication?
• How long does it take?
• When does the adjudication take place?
• The recommendation
• How and in what format do you receive the result?
• How do you appeal?

Trial lecture and public defence

• Preparations for trial lecture and public defence
• Trial lecture and information about adjudication
• Public defence and information about adjudication

Doctoral dinner and conferral of the PhD degree

• Tips on holding a PhD dinner
• Conferral and PhD diploma

Information for the chair of the defence and for the evaluation committee

• Information for the chair of the defence
• Information for the evaluation committee

Research proposal - template

Template for research proposals in connection with applications for a position as postdoc, PhD candidate or researcher

All research proposals must be based on this template. Research proposals must not exceed 14,000 characters including spaces.

Applications with a research proposal longer than 14,000 characters will not be considered.  

Title of the project

• Main objective and summary of the project (Present the main objective of your project and a brief summary, explaining how you intend to attain this goal. The purpose is to give the reader sufficient information to decide whether the project is of interest.)
• Background to the project (Provide a brief account of the existing knowledge in the field the project is part of and show how the project will contribute to new knowledge. Explain how your project is relevant to the research at the Faculty of Humanities – for individual researchers, research groups or projects.)
• Theoretical framework (Outline the theoretical foundation of the project and the reasons you have chosen this particular foundation.)
• Research question(s) and expected findings (hypothesis) (Describe the question(s) you want to answer through your project, and briefly outline what answer(s) you expect to find on the basis of previous research and theoretical background. Your research questions and hypotheses should focus and delimit the topic.)
• Methods and research ethics (Give an account of the methodological foundation for your project. Discuss any research-ethical problems linked to the project with reference to the Guidelines for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities . Describe the underlying data and source material that will be used and how these will be collected and analysed)
• Proposed dissemination (Outline your proposed outputs: your plans for communicating / publishing your project – articles, monographs, lectures, etc.)
• Progress plan (Outline briefly how you intend to organise your work over the duration of the project, including any planned or anticipated periods of study/as a guest researcher outside the University of Oslo and/or field work. For PhD: We do not expect you to know about individual courses, seminars, etc. that will be included in the training component.)

Total: no more than 14,000 characters (including spaces). It is up to you to decide how they are distributed among the different sections of the research proposal. In addition, your research proposal may also include:

• Literature references (max 3,000 characters) (The reference list must be sorted alphabetically by author.)

To count the number of characters in a text in MS Word, go to Review, and select Word Count. 14,000 characters with spaces is just under five pages of text written in Times, 12 point type, with one and a half line spacing.

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An NTNU thesis LaTeX document class for bachelor, master, and PhD theses

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Thesis-ntnu.

CoPCSE@NTNU – Community of Practice for Computer Science Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology – is an informal forum for lecturers in computer science and related fields across campuses and departments.

The current repository provides a LaTeX thesis template that should in principle be applicable for theses at all study levels – bachelor, master and PhD. It is closely based on the standard LaTeX report document class with added packages and customisations. The purpose of the document provided in thesis.tex is threefold. It should serve (i) as a description of the document class, (ii) as an example of how to use it, and (iii) as a thesis template.

The template does not have any official status, and it is not a general NTNU-level requirement to use it. It replaces previous templates like https://github.com/COPCSE-NTNU/bachelor-thesis-NTNU and https://github.com/COPCSE-NTNU/master-theses-NTNU .

You can use the template with Overleaf , and you are strongly encouraged to do so. The alternative is to install local copy of LaTeX on your laptop (not adviced, huge, difficult).

You should fork the CoPCSE repo so that you have your own files to edit and you can always merge with the upstream changes to the template, in case the template is updated.

Setup using Overleaf

There are two ways for setting up the Overleaf project with the template:

• Use the .zip copy and upload.
• Fork the the CoPCSE repo so that you have your own files to edit.

Building document locally

The template also provides a simple Makefile which allows you to build the document locally. This requires that you have a LaTeX compiler, such as texlive , installed locally, which has to provide the commands pdflatex and biber .

• Makefile 1.3%

Submit your Master's thesis to the University of Oslo's open research archive (DUO)

Submit in StudentWeb

Have the following ready in advance:

• Do you use Internet explorer? It might not work. Use an other browser to submit the thesis.
• Make sure you know your UiO username and password. Have you forgotten? Get your username or set new password . Problems? Contact IT support for students .
• The title of your thesis
• Summary, if you would like to make it available to the public in the DUO open research archive.
• The thesis in a PDF-format. How to make a PDF from a document . Any attachments need not be converted to PDF.
• The original file(s) may be provided if you wish, but this is not obligatory. If they are to be provided, have them ready. By original files we mean the document files the thesis was written in before it was converted to PDF, e.g. a Word file.
• Make sure you know where on your computer you have saved the files you are going to submit.
• Start your submission in good time before the deadline. It may take some time to enter the summary and upload the file(s).
• Group thesis? Students who have collaborated on a thesis must individually submit the thesis in StudentWeb.

You may change and submit your thesis again - until the deadline for submission.

NB! In addition, deliver the thesis in accordance with the institute's / faculty's requirements.

How to submit in Studentweb

Log in to Studentweb with username and password

• NB: You cannot submit if you log in with your Norwegian ID number and PIN code.
• Click "More" in the task menu and choose "Thesis submission"

The menu option will only be visible if you for the current semester have:

• registered as a student
• paid the semester fee
• registered for examination in the Master's thesis course.

Start submission

On the front page for thesis submission you are reminded about all the things you need to have ready in advance. When everything is ready, click the green button to start submission.

Register information about your thesis

• Enter the language the thesis is written in.
• If you are submitting a group thesis, tic the box to register it.
• Enter the title of the thesis. The title will appear on transcripts, the diploma and in the DUO open research archive.
• You should also enter the English title of the thesis so that it appears on the transcripts in English.
• Enter the summary if you would like it to be published in the DUO open research archive.
• Enter keywords which describe your thesis. Separate the keywords with a comma, e.g. inflation, economic crises. Keywords are searchable in the DUO open research archive and the Internet, and will make it easier for those interested to find your thesis.

Click the green button to move on.

Upload file(s)

• Click the button Select a file
• Navigate to where you have saved your thesis file. You can only upload it as a PDF file.
• You may also upload attachments that belong to the thesis and the original files (Word, LaTex, Open Office etc.).
• If you upload the wrong file, you can delete it by clicking on the button 'Delete File'.

Determine Accessibility

If you make the Master's thesis accessible in the DUO open research archive, the thesis will be searchable and accessible on the Internet. If you choose not to make the Master's thesis accessible, only the author, thesis title and any summaries will be searchable, and not the Master's thesis itself.

• What does it mean to make the thesis accessible in DUO ?
• Choose whether your thesis and any attachments will be accessible in the DUO open research archive.
• Indicate whether the thesis should be restricted due to confidentiality .
• Original files are automatically set to not-accessible in the DUO open research archive.
• Failed theses are not accessible in the DUO open research archive.
• Tick if you understand the University of Oslo’s rules regarding citations and references to sources .

Verify submission

• Check the information before submitting.
• Use the Previous button at the bottom of the page and scroll back to change if needed.
• When everything is correct, click on the green button. The thesis and the information you have registered is then send to the DUO open research archive.

Confirmation

• You also receive an e-mail confirmation.

Please note it is when you submit your thesis, your receive an e-mail confirmation. If you choose edit submission, and edit an already submitted thesis, you will not receive an e-mail conformation. On the other hand; if you delete your first submission, and submit your thesis again, you will receive a new e-mail confirmation.

As you can tell from the picture above, you will in all cases, see a text that confirms that your thesis has been submitted to DUO - open research library with date and time.

Edit, change or delete your thesis until the submission deadline

You can change the information and submit new files until the deadline. You find options to edit and delete by choosing Thesis submission in the task menu as showed above.

What is possible to change after the submission deadline?

Accessibility:.

You can change the option that your thesis will be available to all, not electronically available, etc., but only after the thesis has become searchable in DUO. Your thesis is made searchable 98 days after the submission deadline. When you have found your thesis in DUO open research archive, please send an email to [email protected] .

If your thesis needs to be restricted due to duty of secrecy , please send an email to [email protected] immediately .

Spelling mistakes in the title or summary:

We can correct spelling mistakes in title and summary when your thesis is searchable in DUO. Your thesis is made searchable 98 days after the submission deadline. When you have found your thesis in DUO open research archive, please send an email to [email protected] .

Spelling mistakes in your thesis:

The version in DUO must be identical to the censored version. This means that we can't replace the file that you submitted with another. If you have any spelling mistakes or other errors in the thesis, we can add an errata list which state the mistakes and what it actually should be. A short errata list can be added to the summary field, a long errata list can be added as an extra file. An errata list can be added when your thesis is made searchable in DUO. That will happen 98 days after the submission deadline. When you have found your thesis in DUO, please send an email to [email protected]

Nice to know

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• After submission to DUO

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UiO Master Thesis

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