Awesome news, congrads!

If you want more interesting reactions, you can always ask them a similarly pointed question.

I have asked, in reply, why they haven't retired yet? They usually get the point. You could be more rude, but it is family you are talking about. So, I guess I don't really bother answering that question.

I save the "my research" speech for border crossing guards and other trapped audiences that I don't want to waste too much time with. I have found that this really inspires a border police officer to stamp the passport and move you along ASAP.

So that is not the norm for all years? I think that in my years of the PhD (3+), the most positive feedback I have received was "this is not as bad as your last draft of the (x) chapter." Chin up and soldier on, that is probably the best way to go forward.

One that was recently recommended to me (on Friday to be exact) was: Authoring a PhD : how to plan, draft, write and finish a doctoral thesis or dissertation / Patrick Dunleavy.
I haven't had a chance to read over it yet, but the academic who rec'ed it has been very helpful and spot on in his suggestions. You might give it a try. I am just waiting on one copy to return here in a few days time before I try to get into it.

Well done with the viva. Congrats Dr. Smoobles.

I tried it with doing the broad themes first. I noticed that when I started with the sub-themes, that the sub-themes did not fit as nice and neat packages in the broad theme as I had planned. This took place for a couple of iterations of coding until I as able to see how the sub-themes worked together and adjusted the broad themes accordingly. Point being: don't get locked into one way of doing it and don't just do the coding once. Every good reference I read talked about the importance of repetition in coding in order to be sure your codes are useful and used consistently. This repetition will help guide you towards using the data to answer your question(s). Good luck and have fun exploring the data, that is uncharted territory!

Congrads Dr. Jenni.

Congrads Hairui.

No dice, sorry. Good luck with it. Have you tried going to one of the authors for a copy?

Advice I was given by an academic at my uni was: A PhD is never finished, it is merely abandoned at its least damaging point.

Congrads 5DMk2!

Yup, send me a PM and I will e-mail to you

Congrads on the results and completion!

Congrads Ady! or Dr. Ady now.

Have you established a friendly relationship with any other staff members at your uni? You might ask them about your two absent supervisors and see if that is just who they are... always busy and out there in the mental cloud field. Consider talking (to other staff and/or the missing supers) before acting on something, it helps solve problems in a more friendly manner.