Thank you for your reply too anonGerman. Your message appeared after I wrote an answer to kassandra's advice. I guess you are right. The changes are all part of the process. I will try an add a commentary slide to the presentation where I can mention the changes without getting too deep as I am not really ready to talk about them.

Thank you for your reply. I have told about the possible changes to my supervisor but we have not come to any conclusions yet. Because this seminar fell on the same time-scale as I plan to do those changes, I am worried (and not really ready) to introduce them. It's not a graduate seminar but there will be one more PhD student presenting with me, so we will be sharing a 40 minute slot introducing our individual research projects.

Hi. I have to present my research in 2 days time at a seminar but I am still struggling with the slides I have to prepare. My main confusion is, I am at a very messy stage of my research where I will need to take a different direction and change some of my research questions. However I do not know how much of this should be reflected on the presentation. Should I just present it as if I won't do any of these changes, or should I mention them. How would you go about this?

Thank you Mia. I will see my supervisor next Tuesday. But I wanted to know the possibilities before I speak with him.

Hi. I am on my second year of the PhD and realised that my proposal was over-ambitious. I won't bore you with the details but things aren't going very well in terms of reserch goals. I am fully funded for this research but it is only for 3 years in total. Do you think it is too late to change direction? I can't really change my topic as I enjoy it, and because I am registered as PhD-direct student with this proposal, I don't think it would be realistic to change topic. Any ideas? Thanks in advance...