Prior to submission for external examination

• The content of the dissertation must be reviewed and approved by the candidate’s supervisory committee members.
• The format of the dissertation must be reviewed and approved by the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Read more

These approvals must be confirmed in advance of the time frame for submission to the external examiner.

Submitting your dissertation for formatting review

The following must be submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies:

1. Printed copy/copies of the completed and approved dissertation, Copies must be cerlox-bound with clear front covers. These copies may be submitted with double sided pages. One copy for distribution to the external examiner (if requested in paper form) and the other for distribution to the examination chair. Read more

2. Electronic version of the dissertation (PDF) submitted via email to the Doctoral Exams Team as an attachment (Please do not submit a disk, and do not bring the dissertation to the Graduate Studies office on a memory stick.) or information pertaining to FTP site from which the dissertation can be downloaded.

   DO NOT submit your dissertation to the cIRcle database at this point. Read more

3. Graduate Program Approval of Doctoral Dissertation for External Examination.  Please contact your Graduate Program office to arrange for pick-up of this memo.  See template
4. Dissertation Review Sheet or printout of e-mail confirming that the formatting of the dissertation has been reviewed and approved by the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Read more

The dissertation will be forwarded for external examination upon receipt of all requested copies of the dissertation and the two documents.