...it crossed my mind too!

Could you not do the same ie start mentioning 'your girlfriend' (whether you have one or not) during the conversation at irrelevant moments so she can take the hint that a) you dont fancy her and b) its a pretty insane way to start behaving and that she needs to get a grip?

Blimey Wj gibson - that is scary stuff! what is your field?

Gosh Bewildered - what is your social science subject where only 10% get lectureships? that sounds a bit daunting!

Having gone from being a full-time phD student to a full-time lecturer in the past 2 months, Id say that there are more overall similarities than differences between the two (i was also teaching during my phD, so that may be why). the differences are, as mentioned, more variety in the job as lecturer, and definitely treated with more respect although, as both a 'newbie' and as a female, not as much respect as some others in the dept! on the downside, theres less flexibility, and with a teaching timetable, there's no question of not being at certain places at certain times (and being fully prepared in advance), and that can actually take some getting used to. i havent quite decided yet whether i prefer it or not (although prefer not being skint!)

Hurrah! after three years and two months....just had to share it....and the fact that the final 24 hours are far more stressful than anything that goes before (why does nobody tell you that?)

My lit review, conceptual framework, methodology and discussion chapters were each 10,000 words, and my 3 findings chapters were each 13,000 words, making a total of 80,000 words, if that helps?

personally, if the article is nothing to do with your thesis topic, then i cant see a good reason to put your supervisors name on the article - presumably they wont have contributed anything, so why would they be on it? However, i would mention that you're doing it, out of courtesy really - if anything, they should be pleased that you're getting involved in stuff and making yourself a more well-rounded academic!

I did telephone interviews for my PhD - all open-ended qualitative, and it worked a treat. in fact, i see many advantages of them e.g. anonymity, participants' control over space, less intrusive etc. Go for it!

I agree with Smilodan - there's not a lot you can do as its their home...i wonder why you chose now to make the move in with them, given how essential it is at this point in your life to have the intellectual and emotional 'space' required to complete a PhD? Is it a crazy suggestion to move out and move back in when you have less demands on you (ie the thesis) and then the situation wont be experienced in this way?

Im going to submit in a few weeks and Id advise to crack on and get things sorted well before then if you want to stay in academia - try and publish, definitely do conference presentations before publishing, to get ideas and help firm up the publication on which it (will be) based, network, schmooze....thats the way i got straight into a lectureship. If i hadnt done all this during my thesis, i would never have got the job!

Does anyone know of any resources/books/guidance on how to write for peer-review journals? Im coming to the end of my PhD and while the emphasis from my supervisors is understandably about how to write the thesis itself, id like to start thinking about publishing some of it, and some guidance would be quite useful...any ideas?

Better that than 'cocky', as my supervisor described one of my chapters!

Im currently writing-up and my endnote says i have 356 references for my 80,000-word PhD. Just out of curiosity (and fear that i dont have enough!), how many have others cited by the time theyve reached the end? whats the average? (mine's a qualitative study, which may or may not make any difference).

I think half my concern is what the implication says about my professionalism i.e. that i would sabotage proceedings or something! (especially as the decision came from my supervisor, who is chairing the whole interview process). A lot of colleagues this week have commented that they're surprised that i wasn't shortlisted , with one senior member muttering 'they'd better be bloody good candidates to justify not shortlisting her' (ie me) and, while i accepted the decision with good grace, I'm starting to think a bit cynically, which is horrible...

Does anyone know of any policy where, if someone applies for an internal academic post and isn't shortlisted, then they're banned from attending the subsequent shortlisted candidates' presentations to the dept due to 'conflicts of interest'? What would such 'conflicts of interest' be, exactly? (yes, this has just happened to me, and I'd still like to go to the presentations as its really useful for future applications).