Yes *4 :-); I don't think I have your email from before so pm me and I'll send on the pdfs

Good for you Star-Shaped, am very happy for you (up) Like Sneaks, I am more than a little green (sprout) but also like Sneaks, I WILL get this done by the end of September.

I think you should really. If you got an interview before it means that the calibre of your appliction and qualifications fit what they were looking for. I take your point about appearing not to have moved forward since you last spoke with that team but perhaps could you frame it around a particular aspect of your PhD that you developed further. Or even if you had a problem with your thesis try to work around how you overcame it, maybe adjusted your methodology etc.


Good luck (up) but there are so fews positions out there that probably best not to at least apply

no bother I can get it, I'll email it to you now

I can get it for you if you want to pm your email id :-)

never fear, I got one too and some others as far as I know. You never know, maybe it's an elite club:p

Hi Natassia

I did notice you were not around, you were missed :-)

that sounds like a very tough procedure to go through just to basically be allowed get on with your PhD. It sounds like the panel have no doubts about you per se but perhaps in the viability or feasibility of what you have been proposing? Possibly are you being too ambitious in what you hope to achieve as a single researcher? Very often people have a list of research questions when in effect any one of them would make for a viable, robust PhD. Maybe scaling it back a bit might convince them more.

Good luck with your supervision meeting next week. As for feeling not good enough, join the club:-( Crippling self-doubt means that I never sleep properly the night before my meetings and given that I (fingers crossed) hope to submit during September, that has made for a very anxious three years. Each meeting I dread that this will be the one where I'm found out and told to pack my bags. It hasn't happened yet but even when my supervisor sends me an email, I click it open with my heart beating:$ Pathetic really for an 'old married woman' but there you go!

You're a four star forumite well able for your PhD (up)

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India Knight had a really good article in last week's Sunday Times News Review about Alex Crawford from Sky News. She's out in Libya at the moment but has young family at home. Seems even she feels the mummy guilt that just never goes away. I either feel that I'm spending too much time on family and PhD suffering or vice versa.

School started this morning :-x

anybody else get a pm from a company offering to write their thesis? Things going so badly at the mo that I'm sorely tempted - can they guarantee me a pass and let me get on with the rest of my life?????????:-(

Sorry 4Matt, I can get into that journal but not for the most recent year; there is an embargo on the most recent year via two different databases. Hope somebody else can source it for you.

Enid Blyton used to always have Mums that longed for the end of the school hols and I never could understand it - until I had children of my own that is! I have four children and have found the summer incredibly stressful. Without going into the gory details, one of my twins pushes, pushes, pushes the boat out, and my buttons with it, pretty much all the time. I actually don't mind working with background noise but when they start fighting :-s. Added to that my son has left home to study in Sweden and has sent me a total of two texts in two weeks; 'yup, yup, things good, how's the dog?' My daughter is re-sitting a French exam tomorrow and has her driving test in a couple of weeks. Life at the moment is practising 3-point turns and reversing around corners in Wanda (her car, bought off her brother!).

No tips for studying with children although at least as mine are teenagers they sleep in the morning. Then they get up and start eating, and fighting, and eating and fighting, and so the cycle goes on... Today I re-jigged my chapter five to the background noise of the boys throwing shoes at each other and the hose turned on and aimed in the bedroom window. Cue me turning into psycho Mom :$

Yup, I can get it, pm an email where I can send it too :-)

Hi Kukuka

Just a few words of encouragement :-). If you feel in your heart of hearts that you have actually addressed what the examiners wanted and your supervisor has looked at your resubmission, logically it sounds like it will be fine. I can empathise with the dreaming and waking up at night as that's about where I'm at. I am submitting in a few weeks and I am so riddled with self doubt about it that I am nearly ill with worry.

While you got, if I remember correctly, a blend of minor and major corrections (sounds like your panel invented a new category of viva outcome!) they did say that you shouldn't have to resit another viva. I think it sounds like it's going to work out this time.

Postive thoughts being willed your way (up)