At the very beginning of the thesis in the front matter statements there is one declaration about published work in the thesis and copyright.

My question is do these publications refer only to actual published articles or similar that are incorporated into the thesis or could this also refer to papers given at conferences about your work?

In my case the paper was given in person but was not published as conference proceedings. I will use it to form an article in a month or two-it hasn't been submitted to a journal or formally published as yet.

The declaration or statement says 'where applicable', so this is where I was wondering whether it referred only to published articles that were pretty much included within the thesis as a chapter, rather than the publishing you do from your thesis (if this makes sense).

I'm doing my final days as a distance student and hoped someone here might know this definitively (before I email my supervisors that is). Cheers and thanks, P.

Thanks PM133, that makes sense, I think I am just becoming overly anxious as I get closer to submission,

Cheers :)