Masters Clinical Thesis Submission Checklist & Release of Thesis Form

Students do not need to submit this with their thesis. This is a checklist for reference only to make sure your thesis is set out correctly before submission. When you are ready to submit your thesis you will need to submit an online Release of Thesis form. Once your supervisor confirms that your thesis is of sufficient academic quality and standard of presentation, you can upload to Canvas.

Thesis Submission Checklist

The thesis shall incorporate, in the following order:

A. A title page set out in the following order:

  1. Full title of the thesis
  2. Full name of the student
  3. “This thesis is submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of”
    1. The title of the degree
  4. The name of the Institute: The Cairnmillar Institute School of Psychology Counselling and Psychotherapy
  5. The year of submission
  6. Full name of the Supervisor
  7. Word count

B. Abstract of no more than 300 words.

C. Statement of Authorship – Do not need to include this in thesis. This is now included as part of the thesis release form.

D. Acknowledgements.

E. Body of the work.

F. Reference List.

G. Appendices, if any.

Final Submission

Once students have received their final mark they are required to submit a OneDrive link to their Supervisor containing:

  • a digital copy of your final thesis in Microsoft Word format
  • all supplementary material separate from the bound thesis as part, or in support, of the thesis such as research data including surveys and SPSS/PASW (or other) data file with complete original dataset, any working files used to produce final reported results, SPSS/PASW syntax and final output files, computer printouts, films, models, musical scores, tape recordings etc.