The thesis supervisor, in consultation with you, proposes examiners to form the thesis jury.

You must ensure that the List of Examiners for the Evaluation of the Thesis form has been completed and submitted using a Service Request in your uoZone account. The list must be submitted at least one month before you submit your thesis for   written evaluation. Any delay in the submission of this form may delay the entire evaluation and defence process.

These delays may have financial consequences since the submission of the thesis for written evaluation can only be accepted if the list of examiners has been submitted and approved.

• Form - List of examiners for the evaluation of the thesis (PDF)

A doctoral thesis must also be reviewed by an external examiner in addition to the internal examiners. The proposed external examiner should be at arm’s length from the doctoral candidate, from the research project and the thesis supervisor(s). The external examiner must be able to evaluate the thesis without any conflict of interest or reasonable apprehension of bias. 

To enable the faculty to check that external examiners have appropriate expertise and to validate that they are not in conflict of interest, a curriculum vitae must be provided for each proposed examiner. The curriculum vitae should include the rank, supervisions and a list of publications.

In signing the form with the names of the proposed examiners, the chair of the academic unit or delegate is indicating that, to the best of his or her knowledge, no conflict of interest or reasonable apprehension of bias exists.

To see examples of conflict of interest, you can refer to article C.7.7.4.2 of the thesis regulation.

When submitting a thesis for written evaluation, you must be enrolled.

It is important that you submit the thesis final draft to your thesis supervisor sufficiently early in the term. By doing so, your supervisor can read it, provide feedback and deliver it to you in a timely manner. Consequently, you can then make the latest revisions or corrections and submit your thesis for written evaluation, after having obtained approval from your supervisor that the thesis is ready for the written evaluation.

You must submit an electronic copy of your thesis in the Candidate Center accessible through uoZone.

Once the thesis has been submitted to the Candidate Center for evaluation, you may receive a financial credit. For specific deadlines and the credits available, please refer to the Important academic dates and deadlines calendar.

For the thesis to be sent to the examiners, the thesis supervisor must confirm that she or he has reviewed the thesis and that it is suitable to be submitted to the jury for written evaluation. The thesis supervisor will approve the submission of the thesis for written evaluation via the uoCampus portal.

It the thesis supervisor is not convinced that the thesis meets the standards of the discipline and the program of study, she or he may ask you to further develop your work.

You can find out your status during this process, through your uoZone account.