UCL Clinical Psychology DClinPsy

The following link will take you to the research guidelines in the training handbook

> Major research project guidelines

This gives a guide to what goes in the research proposal, which is prepared in the summer of the first year.

Guidelines for writing the research proposal

This is a checklist of what you need to do after your research plan is finalised, before the study gets underway. It covers ethics, sponsorship, R&D registration, data protection, and health and safety risk assessment.

> Research Governance Checklist

There's also a list of Frequently Asked Questions on Research Governance.

This document explains how to access additional funds for the major research project. Contents include: Departmental support; Possible types of expenditure; Expenditure not usually funded through the Department; External funds; Examples of costings; Copy of research expenses form.

>Obtaining funding for research

The thesis title and abstract needs to be submitted in the second term of the third year, to enable assignment of internal and external examiners.

>Submission of Thesis Title and Abstract

This document gives detailed guidance on writing up and presenting each part of the thesis.

>Writing and Presenting the Thesis

This document outlines the procedures for trainees who are doing a joint thesis.

>Joint theses

What to do in the unlikely event that you will not be submitting your thesis on time.

>Extension and deferrals

Information on current and recently completed DClinPsy research.

• 2008 Intake Project List
• 2009 Intake Project List

This document specifies the criteria that the examiners use to evaluate the thesis

> Evaluating the thesis

The link below takes you to the section of the training handbook on the SRP

(Note that the project has recently been renamed as the "service-related project", but the old name of "service-related research project" may still be found in course documentation.)

> Service-related project guidelines

Recently completed projects

> Project list from the 2008 intake (doc)

> Project list from the 2009 intake (doc)

Completed theses

> DClinPsy theses (doc) from 1997 onwards

> MSc dissertations (pdf) submitted 1990-1997

> Service-Related Research (doc) from 1998 onwards

> Most DClinPsy theses submitted from 2011 onwards are available in pdf form via UCL Discovery. There are links in the thesis list.

Publications

> Publications from trainee research (doc)

This is a list of all known publications arising from the theses of trainees on the UCL DClinPsy (and its predecessor MSc) up to the end of 2011.

> Publication list (doc)

Items held in the DClinPsy test library comprise:

> Major tests (doc) - tests which stand alone

> Sub-tests (doc) - tests which are part of a larger library item, e.g. measures in the Child Psychology Portfolio, the Camden Memory Tests or measures in the Health Psychology boxed set.

If you'd like to borrow a test, please see the Research Administrator in the General Office. Items are available for reference or for short-term loans only, see the test library policy document.

Also please let the Research Administrator know if you have any suggestions for new tests.

Thanks to grants from the UCL Friends Programme and from NHS London, we have been able to significantly expand the resources held in the Test Library.

> Catalogue of books held (doc)

If you'd like to borrow a book, please see the academic adminstrator in Rm 436 (up to 3 books may be borrowed for a maximum of 7 days).

> Catalogue of books heldIf you'd like to borrow a book, please see the academic adminstrator in Rm 436 (up to 3 books may be borrowed for a maximum of 7 days).

This file is held in the General Office, and holds information under the following headings:

Miscellaneous collection of websites that are useful for research projects, e.g. literature reviews, writing up, measures and methods, funding, ethics

• Guidelines for Internal Supervisors

• Guidelines for external supervisors of major reseearch project

• Notes for external supervisors thinking of proposing a project

• Guidelines for clinical supervisors on the Service Related Research Project

• Staff research interests connected to the DClinPsy

• Staff research interests connected to the wider Psychology department