Student information – Childhood Studies – Master programme – 2-years – Trondheim
Student information
Writing and submitting your master's thesis
Before you start writing your master's thesis
Before you start writing your master's thesis
- Once your project description is approved, you complete and submit the form master's agreement. Here are the guidelines on how to fill in the form.
- If you will do research with human beings, you must apply for ethical clearance from Sikt (Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research). Here, you will find the Notification Form (Sikt). You fill in an online form that must be shared with and approved by your supervisor before you submit it. You can read more about how to store and process personal data here.
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Students who do not plan to collect any information that identifies particular individuals do not have to apply for ethical clearance from Sikt. You can consult your supervisor and discuss whether you need to register your project at Sikt
Supervision
Supervision
In the process of writing your Master Thesis project proposal, you will be allocated a supervisor. Supervision is obligatory, and you are obliged to follow your supervisor's deadlines and instructions.
Supervision will be given during 2nd, 3rd and 4th semester. The total number of supervision hours is 50, including your supervisor's preparations.
Fieldwork
Fieldwork
- Fieldwork for participants - information page
- Fieldwork participants checklist
- Field card - fill out the card and hand it in at the department
Layout of the thesis
Layout of the thesis
Layout of the thesis is described in the topic page of BARN3900 Master's thesis.
The pages before chapter 1 and the reference list are not included in the defined number of pages. The first page of chapter 1 should correspond to page no 1. This means that the table of content and other texts/figures before chapter 1 have no page numbers, and you may, for instance, use Roman numerals for this.
Use this Word template when writing your master's thesis.
Writing your master's thesis. From preparation to submission.
Submission deadline
Submission deadline
Deadline for submitting your thesis is 15 May at 15:00.
Completing and submitting your thesis
Completing and submitting your thesis
You find useful information about finalising and submitting your master's thesis on the webpage Writing and submitting your master's thesis. The final stages of the thesis is time-consuming, so allow extra time.
You submit your thesis in Inspera.
Your student representatives
The student democracy is a way for students to help develop NTNU as a place of education, and works to make students’ voices heard in questions of academic quality, campus, facilitation, learning environment and similar issues.
The main tasks of your study programme representative and the department representatives is to protect your interests. Here, you can get in touch with your representatives (Norwegian website).
Master's in Childhood Studies - brochure
Please download the brochure about master's in Childhood Studies.