Approval for Extended Research Work

Research Theses may only be extended on the presentation of extenuating grounds such as medical emergencies and family crises. Requests for research extensions should be submitted in writing to the Diplomatic Academy in the first instance. Sponsored research students should also seek additional approval from their respective sponsors.

 

Language

It is expected that your text should be in clear English even if your sources are not.

 

Sources, Acknowledgement and References

You should work from many sources; books research work, newspapers and magazines, reports and statistics. You may use some for background material as well as direct sources. All Sources must be acknowledged. List carefully your sources in the specified format in the bibliography at the end of your project and ensure that all references are numbered. The format of your references should be as follows:

 

(1) Author, Title, Publisher, Date, Page Number., (in that order).
These should be consistent with cross-references inserted in the body of your work; and shown within the script, as follows:

[Author, Date, Page number]^1 (embedded within the line of text)
Where the same source is used in several places, after the first use of a reference you may indicate this particular reference as follows:

[Ibid, Page Number]^1 (embedded within the line of text)
Your sections should be numbered within the chapters and should be properly shown in the list of contents [All Headings & Sub-Heading should be numbered accordingly]. Depending on your professional award you should have 30-200 or more listed references.

 

Presentation, Layout, and Binding

Thesis projects should be presented as follows:

Title Page, Contents Page, Acknowledgements, Synopsis, Body Text (Content), Conclusion, and Bibliography, (in that order) with possible Appendices if required.

 

In general, the thesis Projects binding and layout should be as follows:

• Binding Master Project: Dark Red Hardback 
• Binding Fellowship/Doctoral Project: Royal Blue Hardback 
• Page Layout Margins: 30mm to left, 15mm to right, 30mm to top,30mm to bottom (based on A4 page size)
• Text Layout: Double spacing with the text font in "Times New Roman" or similar typeface is recommended (use font size 12 only)
• Spine Printing:
• The spine should printed in Gold Leaf indicating the name of student, MONTH & YEAR of graduation and TITLE of degree with respect to the thesis spine being vertical, as shown below:

 

Depth of Research Work

 

Copyright

Legal requirements must be observed and candidates are reminded of the limitations and benefits they can have in this respect. Sources and quotations from other publications must at all times be acknowledged.

All projects theses are regarded as the intellectual property of Diplomatic Academy of Europe and no one including authors shall be permitted to reproduce the research work in full or in part in any format, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior written permission of the Diplomatic Academy of Europe