Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Submission
MPhil/PhD/Professional Doctorate
This note is not intended to replace either document, but it distils them into
guidance on the necessary presentation sufficient for nearly all theses.
1. Length of theses:
The text of the thesis should not normally exceed the following word length:
MPhil – 40,000
Professional Doctorate – 60,000
PhD – 80,000
Footnotes and references: If the footnotes and references are discursive,
they will be included into the word limit (unless they are simply referential).
2. Presentation
The thesis should be presented in English, unless you have special permission
to present in another language.
Paper: You should use good quality white A4 paper of 80-100 gsm weight and
black print or type (80 gsm paper is standard copier/printing paper). Colour
should only be used as necessary for illustrations, graphs and diagrams.
Margins: 40mm on the left hand side and 20mm on the right hand side, top
and bottoms margins. The wider margin on the left hand side is to allow for
the binding. The paper size should be set to A4.
Unless necessary, you should use a portrait format.
Typing: on one side of the paper only. Double or one and half spacing must
be used in typescript, except for intended quotations or footnotes, for which
single line spacing may be used.
Font: the preferred font is Times New Roman or Ariel, in 12pt font size.
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Page numbering: all pages should be numbered consecutively throughout the
thesis, including preliminaries and appendices. Page numbers shall be located
centrally at the bottom of each page, approximately 10mm above the edge.
The preliminary sections should be numbered in lower case Roman numerals
(starting at i), and the text of the thesis itself in Arabic numerals (starting at
1).
3. Layout
4. Binding
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Useful contact for binding (also do printing and other services):
Avalon Associates
John and Helen Spelman
01245 468706
email: avalonassociates@yahoo.co.uk
Checklist:
A soft bound copy for the Chair and each examiner
The turn-it-in receipt (Should be a link to submit on UEL Plus – if not please speak to
your LTA)
The student declaration (available on the Graduate School website document library)
The ethics form (where applicable) this should be embedded in the thesis
The thesis will then be sent to the examiners by the Graduate School
Final and amended theses can now be submitted electronically, please see
http://www.uel.ac.uk/gradschool/current/ElectronicSubmission.htm for further
details.
Please contact Caroline Lake (details below) for any further information pertaining
to PGR examination.
Caroline Lake
Senior Administrative Officer for Examinations (Doctoral Students)
The Graduate School
University of East London
4-6 University Way
London E16 2RD
____________________________________________
University of East London
Phone: +44 (0) 20 8223 6274
Fax: +44 (0) 20 8223 2826
Email: c.lake@uel.ac.uk
UEL is the top modern university in London and in the top six nationally for research based on RAE2008
(source)
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Specimen front board of final binding
P.J. JOHNSON
Ph.D.
2012
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Specimen title page, page i
March 2012