finishing your phd: the end game
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Finishing your PhD involves far more than just writing up: drafts, reviews, rewrites, mock vivas, red tape, viva preparation, paperwork, searching for jobs, applying for visas, printing and binding all have to be taken into account.TRANSCRIPT
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Rebecca Ferguson, Ann Pegg
WIP Seminar: 17 March 2009
The End Game…
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Three months to go
•Three months notice•Notify Research School•Download form•Finalise your title•Finalise your name!
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Things become more difficult
•Loss of OU facilities •Starting to look for jobs•Divided attention•Distance problems•Money issues•Visa issues
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Shifting deadlines
•Involving more and more people•Working to their time scales•Waiting for responses•Other readers
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Examiners
•Choosing internal examiners•Choosing external examiners•Timescale to suit examiners•Submission six weeks before viva date
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Producing the finished work
•Word issues•References•Appendices•File sizes•Printing
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Move to formal process
•Regulations•Letters•Handover•Observer•Chair
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Waiting and applying for jobs
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Preparing for the viva
•Practice viva•What is the practice viva for?•What are you being examined on?•Is it in your thesis?•Future research
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The viva
•U501 Surviving the viva
(9 June, 10am, Systems Seminar RoomVenables)•Book•Audio
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Corrections
•Starting again•Time and energy•New job•Supervisors
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Binding
•Library requirements•British Library requirements
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Ann Pegg & Rebecca FergusonThe Open UniversityWalton HallMilton KeynesMK7 6AA