{"id":7122,"date":"2021-04-06T13:32:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T20:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=7122"},"modified":"2021-04-06T13:32:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T20:32:05","slug":"upcoming-deadlines-for-doctoral-examination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-7122","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Deadlines for Doctoral Examination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline for submission of Nominations for External Examiner for PhD candidates wanting to complete on the timeline for August 31 program completion is this Friday, April 9. This is a somewhat\u00a0flexible deadline, but students wishing to complete their PhD by the end of the summer should be ready to start the examination process.\u00a0The External Examiner nominations\u00a0should come in by the end of next week\u00a0to reduce the likelihood of a delay in securing an External Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/current-students\/final-doctoral-exam\/doctoral-deadlines\">other dates<\/a>\u00a0candidates need to meet are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FRIDAY, 11 JUNE 2021\u00a0\u2013 Doctoral dissertation (and supporting documentation) submitted to Graduate\u00a0and Postdoctoral Studies for external examination<\/li>\n<li>FRIDAY,\u00a06 AUGUST 2021\u00a0\u2013 Last Day for Final Doctoral Oral Examination<\/li>\n<li>FRIDAY, 27 AUGUST 2021 \u2013 Acceptance of final, approved doctoral dissertation by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will\u00a0also have an information session about the Virtual Defence process on Wednesday, June 2. This session will be advertised in the regular Monday updates from GradUpdate.<\/p>\n<p>Please distribute this email to any faculty or students you think may be interested.<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<p>Robyn<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robyn\u00a0Starkey<\/strong>\u00a0(Prounouns:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/equity.ubc.ca\/resources\/gender-diversity\/pronouns\/\">No Preference<\/a>)<br \/>\nDoctoral Exams Coordinator<br \/>\nOffice of the Dean\u00a0|\u00a0Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies<br \/>\nThe University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus\u00a0| Musqueam Traditional Territory<br \/>\nThe University of British Columbia\u00a0170 \u2013 6371 Crescent Road\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver BC\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z2 Canada<br \/>\nPhone 604 822 3989<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:robyn.starkey@ubc.ca\">robyn.starkey@ubc.ca<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/\">http:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline for submission of Nominations for External Examiner for PhD candidates wanting to complete on the timeline for August 31 program completion is this Friday, April 9. This is a somewhat\u00a0flexible deadline, but students wishing to complete their PhD by the end of the summer should be ready to start the examination process.\u00a0The External&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7123,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions\/7123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}