Policies & Procedures

Students and staff are also directed to "Academic Regulations", Section 2 of the Saint Mary's University Graduate Academic Calendar.

• Conflict of Interest in Research
• Guidelines for Granting Extension to Graduate Programs
• Graduate Student Handbook
• Guiding Principles for Graduate Student Supervision
• Senate Policy on Research Integrity in Research and Scholarship
• Research Agreements Policy
• Masters Thesis & PhD Dissertation Defense Policy
• Policy on Changing Thesis Supervisors
• Thesis Submission Deadlines
• Masters Defence - Procedures
• PhD Defence - Procedures

Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans
To access information, policies, procedures and forms in regard to research involving human participants from our Research Ethics Board, please visit our Human Research Ethics Board page.

Thesis Preparation
To access information for both the Masters and Doctoral theses, please click here.