MINUTES OF COMMITTEE MEETING FOR:

MAPHD/DPHIL PROPOSALS

TYPE OF COMMITTEE
Mark with an X which committee these minutes apply to:
Small internal committee held in the Departments (all proposals)
Departmental Research Committee (MA Academic and PhD/DPhil proposals)
Small internal committee held in the Departments (all proposals) SECOND SUBMISSION
Departmental Research Committee (MA Academic and PhD/DPhil proposals) SECOND SUBMISSION
Instructions:
The purpose of this document is to enable you to record the minutes of the committee meeting held to discuss your proposaland ethics application as well as the committee’s decision about your proposal and ethics application. Once the committee has met and made comments about your proposal use the table to list the comments about each aspect and indicate what you have done to address every comment. When your supervisor is satisfied that all the comments have been attended to print and sign this document and submit it with your proposal to the committeethat follows (either the Department of Psychology Research Committee for MA Academic and DPhil/PhD proposals) or attach it to your proposal with the application to the Faculty Ethics and Research Proposal Committee(MA Academic and PhD/DPhil proposals that have been approved by the Departmental RESCOMM and all MA coursework proposals). You will therefore complete one of these forms for each committee meeting.
This document is a guideline and as such you can add to or take away from the aspects listed in the Comments Table based on the comments you receive from the committee.
Members of committee:
Candidate:______
Supervisor:______
Co-supervisor:______
Committee member 1:______
Committee member 2:______
Committee member 3:______
Committee member 4:______
Committee member 5:______
Committee member 6:______
Date of committee meeting:
Wednesday 8th February 2017
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COMMENTS TABLE
Aspect / Comments / Revision
1. Title
2. Research question
3. Literature review
4. Theoretical framework
5. Methodology
5.1 Research design
5.2 Sampling strategy
5.3 Method of data collection
5.4 Data collection procedure
5.3 Data analysis
6. Ethical issues
7. Technical aspects
7.1 Writing style
7.2 Use of APA referencing style
7.3 Formatting
Other (specify)
DECISION BY COMMITTEE
Mark with an X the category that applies to your proposal.
The proposal is accepted without any revisions necessary
The proposal is accepted with revisions to be made to the supervisor’s satisfaction
The proposal is accepted with revisions to be made to the supervisor’s and the committee’s satisfaction via e-mail* / follow-up meeting by the committee*
The proposal is rejected and must be presented to the committee again after the proposal has been revised

* delete which is not applicable

Signatures of acceptance:
I have recorded all the comments made at the committee and have addressed every comment:
Candidate:______
The candidate has made the necessary changes to my satisfaction:
Supervisor:______
Co-supervisor:______
Date of acceptance:
______