Thanks for the message. Your research sounds very interesting. How many research phases are your supervisors expecting? I have been advised to have at least four...maybe five.Further, how soon after registration are you expected to start writing up for publishing? I have been advised within the first six to eight months! Is this usual??? Also, what discipline is your PhD in? Have you noticed that there is a Mixed Methods Symposium scheduled at the BPS Annual Conference in Ireland this year?

Good luck...hope it all goes well for you!

Hi Bulbs...yes...I have read that paper too...very helpful..especially as is an English paper. How are you finding using Mixed Method?...would you do it again?

Hi PinkNeuron
Also mother of a few, Forty-something and starting PhD...very excited and bewildered etc but....loving every minute of it!

Snicholls....Sternberg's Creativity Handbook...so relevant to creativity research as proposes that imaginative and non traditional methodology should be encouraged due to the complexities involved in creativity research...My research proposal has now been accepted with a tentative acceptance of Mixed Method....But there has been a proviso on the model to be used!...I'm happy...! What are you researching and are you happy with Mixed Methods? Any overwhelming problems to date?

Thanks pup...I obviously did miss something..that is great advice on writing a comparison paper...have jsut found some decent justification in Sternberg...also..thanks for the information on Mixed Method courses...am acting on that now.

Bulbs...thanks....I think the resistance is due to a preference for quantitative as being the only real measurement and that the rest is purely descriptive...I think as pup has pointed out that it may be due to not knowing enough about mixed method...perhaps thinking that mixed method is multi method...and that it will be very time consuming...I am finding Creswell and Clark (2007) very informative....thanks for your advice..this is going to be an interesting three years!

I am hoping to use mixed methods in my thesis but am finding resistance to this from my supervisors. Has anyone else experienced this and if so do you have any tips on how to ''Sell'' it to them? Also I have been trawling for postgraduate courses in mixed methods in the UK..no luck but have found some in the States...have I missed something? Could anyone advise who offers postgraduate courses...or any course for that matter....

I am hoping to use mixed methods in my thesis but am finding resistance to this from my supervisors. Has anyone else experienced this and if so do you have any tips on how to ''Sell'' it to them? Also I have been trawling for postgraduate courses in mixed methods in the UK..no luck but have found some in the States...have I missed something? Could anyone advise who offers postgraduate courses...or any course for that matter....

Please advice! I am currently writing my research proposal PhD 3 years full time...and am finding the whole process rather open ended and vague...is this usual...also is it standard to accomodate supervisors ideas? I am an alumni so know my supervisors well...but think I may be being manouvered to research an area that is less interesting to me...or is it just new student paranoia...? Is there some unwritten rule concerning this process that I am missing! It seems a lot harder than I thought.

Please advice! I am currently writing my research proposal PhD 3 years full time...and am finding the whole process rather open ended and vague...is this usual...also is it standard to accomodate supervisors ideas?