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All Queen’s Postgraduate Research students are required to upload an electronic copy of their final thesis to  Pure . This is a requirement to successfully graduate 

• Please note that as a Postgraduate Research student your Pure profile exists only for a set period
• Often, access to Pure may expire before you graduate
• It is imperative therefore that you upload the copy of your thesis to  Pure  as soon as possible and before your Pure account expires
• If you no longer have access to Pure and have yet to upload, you can email at the address below and your e-thesis will be uploaded on your behalf
• Further details about the dates of your Pure access will be found in your  Pure  record
• Once an electronic copy of the final thesis has been uploaded to  Pure , it will become Open Access i.e. visible on  Queen's Research Portal . The full text of the thesis will only be available if you have not applied any embargoes
• If you have any questions, please contact the electronic thesis email:

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            T: 02890 976163

There are a number of major advantages to uploading your thesis into Pure: 

Increased visibility for your thesis 

Increased visibility for you as a researcher 

Increased use of your research. It is opened up to the entire world.

Theses are searchable via Queen's Research Portal, EThOS and online search engines such as Google

Greater citation for your work

Potential for increased recognition of your work 

Potential for greater collaboration opportunities and possible spin-off projects 

Digital preservation of your work electronically

Lowering the cost of submitting and handling, saving space, time, money and paper

It may be fulfil the requirement of your funder e.g. UKRI funded students 

It helps make your research FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable)

For Postgraduate Research students who are funded by the UK Research Councils, there are particular terms and conditions regarding their funding:

The thesis should be deposited as soon as possible and available no later than 12 months following award of the doctorate. This means applying for an embargo for a period  not exceeding 12 months  following the award.

The research ought also to acknowledge receipt of Research Council funding.

Note that UKRI funding is covered by the following councils: AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, MRC, NERC & STFC.

Please see  Research Council Training Grant Guide  (nos. 91-92) for further information.

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Queen's University Archives stores print versions of Queen's University Master's and PhD theses up to 2007. Requests to view print copies must be sent to [email protected], where we will require information on the Author, Title, Degree, and Year to be able to find the thesis. All theses are catalogued in Omni . Microform versions of the theses produced from 1975-2007 are available in Stauffer Library, and theses produced after 2007 are available through QSpace or Library and Archives Canada's  Thesis Portal .

Please note that theses completed after 1955 are stored offsite, and Archives staff will need 2-3 days from the time of the request to obtain the item. Theses may only be consulted in the Reading Room of Kathleen Ryan Hall during regular business hours.

PhD Public Health Sciences

 OUR PhD PROGRAM 2023

The Department of Public Health Sciences has broadened its PhD program to include all areas of research expertise represented in our faculty including, but not limited to, epidemiology, biostatistics, qualitative, mixed- and community-based methods, the use of health and public-health services, program evaluation, clinical epidemiology, health equity, global health, indigenous health, and health economics.

Our programs place an emphasis on close faculty-student relations and a philosophy that puts the student first. Through coursework, thesis opportunities, and involvement in the academic life of our department, our students graduate with an in-depth understanding of public health research. Our graduates are able to function as independent investigators in academic, health-research institutes and health-research government agencies, or as emerging public-health leaders in government or the private sector.

In the coming year, our PhD program in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University has a number of exciting opportunities for qualified applicants. The following members of our department have each expressed an interest in supervising a new PhD student:  

Dr. Susan Bartels is a Clinician-Scientist in the Department of Emergency Medicine with a cross appointment to Public Health Sciences. Her research focuses on the health and well-being of women and children affected by humanitarian crises around the globe. Dr. Bartels is interested in the social determinants of health and uses innovative research methods to provide evidence intended to inform policy and programming that will improve health outcomes and mitigate the risks of natural disasters, armed conflict and forced displacement.  

Dr. Susan Brogly is an epidemiologist with research interests in the area of perinatal epidemiology, surgical outcomes, and advanced epidemiologic methods. Dr. Brogly used both population-based administrative health care data (ICES, Medicaid) and primary data collection in her studies.  

Dr. Steven Brooks is a Clinician-Scientist and Emergency Physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine who conducts research in the areas of cardiac arrest and resuscitation. Dr. Brooks may have availability for a PhD student willing to work with the Canadian COVID-19 Emergency Department Rapid Response Network. This is a developing registry funded by CIHR and the Ontario government, tracking patients with suspected and confirmed COVID-19 who attend one of 50 EDs in the country.

Dr. Bingshu Chen is a biostatistician with an interest in survival analysis and generalized linear models. He has developed biomarker threshold models to predict treatment benefit in cancer clinical trials. His other research interests include analysis of health economic data, statistics computing and missing data problems.  

Dr. Anne Duffy is a Clinician-Scientist. She has longitudinal data spanning two decades in high-risk offspring of bipolar parents and has up to two years of psychosocial, clinical and familial data from a representative cohort of undergraduate university students to understand mental health and academic outcomes. These databases provide several opportunities that would make for an interesting thesis including using joint modelling, multi-state and survival analysis. Further information on Dr. Duffy’s research can be found at: https://www.mdco.ca/research/ .

Dr. Jennifer Flemming is a Clinician-Scientist who studies the link between cirrhosis and biliary tract cancer and the burden of chronic liver disease and cirrhosis in Ontario. She uses large population-based databases housed at ICES. Her goal is to improve management strategies for Canadians with liver disease.

Dr. Ana Johnson is a health economist who conducts economic evaluations of health care programs, cost-effectiveness analyses, assessments of resource allocations and use of health technologies.

Dr. Will King is a molecular epidemiologist whose research program seeks to identify modifiable risk factors for cancer. Dr. King studies intermediate markers of cancer risk and genetic susceptibility to better understand environment-cancer relationships.

Dr. Diane Lougheed is a Clinician-Scientist with a research interest in asthma and the development of better information technologies to improve the care of patients with asthma. Dr. Lougheed conducts health services and outcomes research and guideline implementation research in asthma and often uses the ICES data holdings to conduct her work.

Dr. Zihang Lu is a Biostatistician. His research focuses on developing and applying statistical and machine learning methods to answer clinical and epidemiological research questions. His current research interests are in longitudinal data, survival data and high-dimensional data modeling. He is also interested in Bayesian statistics, causal inference and data fusion.

Dr. Maria Ospina is an associate professor with the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University, and a clinical epidemiologist, and population-health researcher in the areas of perinatal and early childhood health. Her research program (DMETRE) uses a life-course approach and a variety of epidemiological methods (observational studies, systematic reviews, GIS analysis, mixed-methods designs), to assess the developmental origins of health inequalities, and how critical periods of human development such as pregnancy and the first 1,000 days of life influence future health.

Dr. Paul Peng is a is a biostatistician with research interests in survival analysis with a focus on cure models, longitudinal and panel data modeling, statistical computation methods for big data, biostatistical methods for epidemiological and clinical trial research.

Dr. William Pickett is in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Brock University and is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University, and an Adjunct Professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. He is a trained epidemiologist whose research interests include: injury and violence prevention; injury and illness in rural and farm populations; and health and its social determinants in adolescent populations, with a primary focus on pediatric violence and injury. Using public health surveillance, analytical and experimental epidemiology, and mixed methods approaches, this work has provided critical insight for policy/health promotion initiatives in Canada, the US and Europe.

Dr. Amrita Roy is a family physician and MD-PhD clinician-scientist in the Departments of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences at Queen’s. A settler ally with a research focus in Indigenous health, Dr. Roy works in close collaboration with Indigenous peoples in community-engaged research centred on the principles of Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession (OCAP). Apart from Indigenous health, Dr. Roy’s other areas of research interest include immigrant and refugee health, women’s health, youth health, and global health. Methodologically, Dr. Roy has expertise in quantitative, qualitative, mixed- and multiple-methods approaches to health research, in addition to community-based and participatory research approaches.  Fall 2023 PhD opportunity with Dr. Roy:  Opportunity for a PhD student starting fall 2023 in a CIHR-funded Indigenous health research project on sleep and mental health, in partnership with Akwesasne Mohawk Nation .

Dr. Sahar Saeed is an epidemiologist and health-services researcher. Dr. Saeed primarily investigates retention and access to health care among populations including persons living with HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C and chronic liver disease. She uses primary data collection, population-based administrative health-care data and novel surveillance tools (GPS) to answer her research questions. For more information on her research interest, visit her website at Epidemiologist | Sahar Saeed .   Fall 2023 PhD opportunity with Dr. Saeed and Dr. Stoner

Dr. Bradley Stoner is Professor and Head, Department of Public Health Sciences and Professor of Medicine at Queen’s University. An infectious disease physician and medical anthropologist, Dr. Stoner’s research focuses on the epidemiology, clinical care, control and prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STI) including HIV. Fall 2023 PhD opportunity with Dr. Saeed and Dr. Stoner

Dr. Wei Tu  is a biostatistician with research interests in data science and its application in health care. His research focuses on translating different sources of high-dimensional data into informed clinical decision-making. The topics he is working on include personalized medicine, data privacy and causal inference.  

Dr. Maria Velez is a Clinician-Scientist with research interests in reproductive and perinatal epidemiology. Her current research program focuses on infertility and pregnancy outcomes, and the reproductive health of young women with cancer. She uses population-based cohort studies including databases housed at ICES.  

Dr. Paul Villeneuve is an environmental and occupational epidemiologist. His research program is focused on quantifying the health effects from exposure to outdoor air pollution, noise, low levels of radiation, as well as the benefits of urban greenness and walkability.  In addition to carrying out spatiotemporal exposure studies in Canada and Grenada (West Indies), he also uses large population-based databases housed in Statistics Canada’s Research Data Centers, and ICES.

If you have a demonstrable interest in the work of one or more of these professors we encourage you to reach out to them to discuss the possibility of supervision.

Our PhD students are guaranteed minimum funding of $21K per year for four years with further income possibilities coming from Teaching Assistantships, Research Assistantships, or Research Fellowships. Many of our students receive national or provincial scholarships.

For further information about our PhD Program, you can contact the Program Director, Dr. Ian Janssen at [email protected]    or the Program Assistant, Ms. Sue Preston at [email protected] .  Note that all applicants must meet the entry requirements to the program:  https://phs.queensu.ca/programs-courses/degree-programs/phd-public-health-sciences/how-apply  

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PhD Thesis Checklist

Biology phd thesis submission checklist.

• Format your thesis according to the Graduate School's Thesis Formatting & Preparation Guidelines . See also Biology Thesis Submission Guidelines .
• Complete the Application for Approval of External Examiner and give it to the Graduate Program Advisor for approval. This is best done well in advance as this person must be approved by the both the Graduate Coordinator and the School of Graduate Studies.
• Email a completed PhD Oral Thesis Examination Form to [email protected] 30 business days (this does not include the day of your defence) before the defense date so that she can find a suitable Head’s Delegate for your defense. The Chair for your defense will be assigned by the Graduate School. Date and time of defense MUST be finalized with the other members of your thesis defense committee before you submit this form to the Graduate Program Advisor. They will send the completed form to the Graduate School for you.
• Your supervisor is responsible for setting up the Zoom or TEAMS link and sending the invitations to everyone.
• 25 business days (this does not include the day of the defence) before the date of your defense, distribute pdfs of your thesis via email to all of the members of your thesis defense committee, and include Joanne so she can email pdfs to the Head’s Delegate and the external examiner.
• Email a pdf of your thesis to [email protected] 25 business days prior to your defense. This pdf document will be screened by the graduate School for formatting issues and you will be notified of any required corrections. If you have prepared this pdf with line numbers, or single-spaced, etc (see Biology Thesis Submission Guidelines ), please inform the thesis office in your email and note that you will conform to the Graduate School's thesis format requirements when you submit your final copy.

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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

The PhD program in the School of Computing is entirely research-based, is typically completed within four years and is fully funded ( i.e. , students receive financial support and avoid accruing student debt).

Applicants should normally have completed an M.Sc. in Computing Science or a closely related field at an established university. They are admitted in accordance with the general regulations of the School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs . Candidates normally enter the program at the beginning of the Fall term (September).

Students who are interested in pursuing a part-time Ph.D. should contact the School for further details.

Ph.D. Program Summary

Candidates pass through six stages of activity:

• finding a supervisor
• organizing a supervisory committee
• completing the breadth requirement
• completing the topic proposal
• completing the comprehensive exam
• working on their research and writing their thesis

Note: students admitted prior to September 2013 may complete the research proposal and depth requirement rather than a topic proposal and comprehensive exam.

Ph.D. Requirements

There are four formal requirements imposed by the School:

• a breadth requirement , which can be met through a combination of graduate courses, an MSc thesis, and work experience;
• a six-page topic proposal ;
• a comprehensive examination , which includes a written research proposal and an oral defense; and
• a Ph.D. thesis .

Candidates who fail to complete any requirement within the time limit specified will be required to withdraw from the program. The Ph.D. program committee may approve extensions to time limits, subject to the rules of the School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs, and will normally do so for part-time and inactive students.

Management of the Ph.D. Program

The Ph.D. program is managed by the Ph.D. program committee who are responsible for:

• maintaining consistency in the requirements for individual candidates;
• approving the candidate's progress through various milestones;
• handling disputes that may arise; and
• acting as chairs and examiners when needed.

The Ph.D. program committee is appointed by the School Director and reports annually to the Director on the progress of each Ph.D. student.

Ph.D. Thesis

A thesis presenting original research is submitted for approval by a thesis examining committee. The research described in the thesis should constitute a significant contribution to knowledge in an area of Computing Science. It must be original and of such quality as to warrant its publication in a recognized journal.

Candidates should consult the School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs' Calendar for university regulations regarding Ph.D. theses. The thesis is examined in accordance with the general rules of the School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs .

Requirement to Withdraw

Any of the following are grounds for requiring a candidate to withdraw. The list is illustrative rather than exhaustive.

• inadequate performance in a token ;
• failure to have a research proposal approved within three years; and
• an unsatisfactory rating by the supervisory committee in two regular reviews.

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