Doctoral Thesis Project

Definition and Scope: These are projects where Doctoral thesis topics, approved by the Institute Executive Board Decision of the Higher Education Institution, are transformed into a project format under the supervision of an advisor, with only the thesis student and, if any, the second advisor as assistant researchers.

Who Can Apply: 

1. Our university faculty members who have completed their doctorate can apply. 
2. A student has the right to receive support for only one doctoral study within our university. 

Application Process and Evaluation Principles: 

1. The support upper limit for this type of project is decided at the BAP Commission meeting and announced on the BAP website.
2. Applications are made through BAP Automation.
3. DR Thesis Project Applications are carried out after the thesis proposal (title) is approved by the Institute Executive Board Decision.
4. Project applications may be sent for review by referees whose number and qualifications are determined by the BAP Commission if deemed necessary, and the commission decides whether to support the project based on the referees' opinions. 

Restrictions:

1. Project managers can supervise a maximum of 12 graduate thesis projects at the same time.
2. No travel, daily allowance, and participation fee are paid for activities related to participation in domestic or international congresses, symposiums, conferences, etc., for the project manager/second advisor if any, only support is provided for the thesis student who is an assistant researcher, and the upper limit is updated by the BAP Commission.
3. The upper limit for fuel, stationery, office supplies, and printing binding expenses is updated by the BAP Commission. The determined upper limits are announced on the BAP website. (Except for photocopying requests within the scope of survey/scale/application)
4. No translation fee is paid within the scope of thesis projects, but payment is made for proofreading services for articles prepared to be published in journals indexed in Web of Science. The upper limit for proofreading fees is determined annually by the BAP Commission. The determined upper limits are announced on the BAP website.
5. In thesis projects, the contribution rates of the manager and researcher must be distributed equally. If there is a second researcher in the projects, the contribution rate of the project manager should be 60%, and the contribution rates of the other researchers should be distributed equally.
6. Assistant researchers who have previously received project support but have not successfully completed the project are not given a new project of the same type.

Execution and Finalization Process: 

1. Interim reports are sent online through BAP Automation in accordance with the interim report format at one-year intervals. 
2. All requests (additional materials, additional time, adding/removing researchers, etc.) are sent through BAP Automation. 
3. The final reports of thesis projects are accepted as the theses approved by the relevant institute. However, if there is no obligation to mention the support of the BAP Coordination in any part of the thesis in the thesis writing guide of the relevant institute, it is mandatory to include the statement “This study was supported by Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University Scientific Research Projects Unit. Project Number: .…” on the summary and abstract pages of the thesis copy submitted to the BAP Coordination.
4. To finalize the project, project managers must upload the electronic version of the thesis they uploaded to YÖKTEZ as a pdf and the relevant EYK decision that the thesis was successfully completed to BAP Automation. 
5. To freeze thesis projects, the project manager's request and the student's study period must have been frozen by the decision of the relevant institute. Thesis projects can be frozen for the duration frozen by the relevant institute. 
6. The affiliation of the student who is a researcher can be terminated after the final report (the thesis itself) is uploaded to BAP automation.
7. The final reports of this type of project must be published as a full-text article in journals indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and/or TR Index (or have received a DOI number) within two years at the latest.
8. In the published article, it is mandatory to include a statement such as "This study was supported by Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University Scientific Research Projects Commission. Project Number: …” or a similar meaning.