Function	San José	Queensland
Supervision	Tenured Faculty Accreditation for QUT Doctoral Supervision	Faculty Reviewed According to QUT Criteria (research record; funding)
Specializations	archives and records administration; information retrieval; information systems and technologies; information use; education for LIS; management and leadership; youth services	information retrieval; information use; information systems and technologies; smart tools and services; intelligent infrastructure; enterprise systems
Application	Acceptance by San José Faculty Member and Recommended by the School's PhD Admissions and Advisory Committee »»	Acceptance by QUT and QUT Principal Supervisor Decision to Admit (minimum MLIS, with 3.5 GPA)
Fees		AUS $11,250/year
Revenue	Program maintenance and development
Year I August	Technology Workshop Development of Program Plan	Approval of Program Plan Orientation of Doctoral Students with San José faculty
Year I Expectations	Seminars, reading courses and projects, including advanced library research methods and socialization to the academic world of research and scholarship.	Deliverables: Formal review at four months (December) Preliminary research proposal Literature review Formal annual review Note: annual reviews are public and take place during the August residency
Year II Expectations	Seminars, reading courses and projects, including public presentations and defense, work-in-progress and doctoral poster sessions and continued structured socialization to the academic world of research and scholarship	Deliverables: refined research proposal with literature review and methodology formal annual review
	The confirmation of candidature takes place at the end of 24 months, or the end of Year Two. This requires documentation of progress, and as a minimum the literature review, and a seminar presentation on the topic proposed for investigation. The first three chapters for the dissertation (introduction; literature review; methodology and pilot; plan for progress) may be presented at this time or at the end of Year Three. Confirmation of candidature takes place in San José in August and results in confirmation as a Ph.D. student at QUT.
Year III Expectations	Seminars in which faculty and candidates present critical studies of selected problems; independent study or reading courses under faculty supervision; research projects conducted under faculty supervision with greater focus on the dissertation topic; research fora will model the dissertation defense.	By the end of Year Three the candidate will have submitted at least one substantive research project for review.
Year IV–V–VI Expectations	Seminars in which faculty and candidates present critical studies of selected problems; independent study or reading courses under faculty supervision; research projects conducted under faculty supervision. It is expected that San José faculty and doctoral candidates will engage in co–teaching and collaborative research, from grant preparation to publication, over the course of the six years. Doctoral candidates will also attend seminars and presentations on the role of the faculty member in higher education, curriculum design and course development and pedagogy in higher education. *Dissertation*	*Dissertation*
Supervision	Ongoing through Web–conferencing Annual Meeting/Review in August Annual Presentation/Review at annual conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (January)	Ongoing through monthly Web–conferencing Annual Meeting/Review in August
Final Examination	Open Colloquium in San José	Internal: principal supervisor and three non–supervisors (one expert; one from out side the area; one junior faculty) External: three readers including one international expert » Decision

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