Postgraduate forms

Download forms for postgraduate students at AUT, including for master's degree and doctoral students. You should download the current form each time you use it, rather than using one you saved on your computer earlier.

Click on the link below, which will take you down the page for more information:

• Admissions and transfers
• Embargo request
• Progression and changes in status
• Examinations
• Submission of final copies, post-examination
• Submission of final copy, post examination of Master's Research Project and Practice Project
• Submission of final copy, post examination of Bachelor's Honours Dissertations
• Third party copyright material

Ethics forms

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Supervision agreement form

Download supervision form

Research degree scholarship forms

Contact the Scholarships Office for the forms

Admission and transfers

Postgraduate Research Proposal

Includes a brief research proposal for master's and honours students.

Updated V2.7 June 2023

Admission to a Doctoral Programme

Includes brief research proposal and must be accompanied by an Application for Enrolment (AFE)

Guidelines for the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Guidelines for the Faculty of Culture and Society

Updated V3.2 February 2024

Transfer form

To be completed by a student transferring to AUT from another institution, or transferring to the PhD from an AUT master's programme or transfer to an AUT master's degree from the PhD programme.

• Transfer form (PC version)
• Transfer form (MAC version)

Embargo Request

Application for Embargo

Application for embargoes to restrict access to a thesis/dissertation/exegesis. Applications should be lodged as soon as the need for confidentiality is identified.

Updated V1.9 June 2023

Progression and changes in status

Change Requests/Variation of Record

Application for changes such as extensions, leave of absence, deferment, withdrawal from programme, change of supervisors, mode of study, thesis topic or title.

• Change Requests VOR (PC Version) V1.1 October 2023
• Change Requests VOR (MAC Version) V1.1 October 2023

Progress Report Form

A six-monthly report on research progress by the candidate.

Updated V1.14 June 2023

Confirmation of Candidature Research Proposal

Application for confirmation of candidature and the full proposal.

Updated V1.14 October 2023

Major Change in Thesis Topic

Notification of significant change in thesis topic.

Updated V1.5 June 2023

Change of Faculty

Notification of change of faculty for doctoral students only.

Updated V1.3 June 2023

Examinations

Checklist for supervisors – Research component examination

A checklist for supervisors to use once the first draft of the research component has been received.

Updated V1.3 June 2023

Appointment of Examiners

A faculty postgraduate committee notification of examiners.

Updated V2.0 June 2023

Lodgement of Thesis for Examination

A statement that the thesis is ready for examination.

Updated V1.10 October 2023

​Completion of Amendments as Required by Examiners

Updated V1.7 June 2023

Submission of final copies, post examination

Deposit of Research Component in the AUT Library

The electronic deposit of the research component in the AUT Library is now to be completed online. When you deposit your research component on the Tuwhera website you will be required to complete an online declaration.

Tuwhera website

Third party copyright material

If you are using material in your research that was created by others (e.g. images, tables, graphs, large parts of text, poems) in your research course, dissertation, thesis or blog post, you may need to ask permission from the copyright owner.

Check out AUT's copyright information for researchers .