PhD students’ guide
These pages contain information and advice for current PhD students in the Department.
For information about applying to become a PhD student here please see our postgraduate study pages.
Welcome to new PhDs
The PhD from a student's point of view
Registration exercise and annual reviews
The first-year registration exercise and annual review in subsequent years
Your supervisor and advisor
The role of the supervisor and advisor, and how they are appointed
Progress log
How to keep a record of action plans, meetings, conferences and training
Intermission and working away from Cambridge
Applying to work away from Cambridge or intermit your studies
The PhD thesis
Guidelines for researching and writing your thesis
Submitting your thesis
Applying for appointment of examiners and how to submit
Examination
How the PhD thesis is examined
Student Registry
The Student Registry has administrative responsibility for postgraduate students. You are advised to make yourself familiar with the information on its Cambridge students website, including the Code of Practice for Research Students.
CamSIS
You should use CamSIS for administrative tasks such as applying for leave to work away from Cambridge, updating your personal data (address, phone number etc) and reading your supervision reports.
Supervising undergraduate students
Most of our PhD students give supervisions to undergraduate students: see the information for supervisors to find out about this.