Please note: the UP RDM team has recently acknowledged that there may be instances, such as with literary study, where research data is not produced in the process of completing a thesis or dissertation. In such instances, postgraduate students will require a declaration to this effect. If your department has not given you specific guidelines about this, please make contact with adrienne.warricker@up.ac.za so that I might help you clarify what the RDM team's latest arrangements are around such declarations.