tbh, I agree with Dunni in that don't overthink it. Also whichever and whatever you get offered/decide to take, EU regulations are such that you can't be punished for being pregnant. A job is different to being a student as in you do have more rights. I take your point about feeling bad etc but it may or may not happen. Many a teacher seem to have all their babies in November!

BRILLIANT, Pink_Numbers (gift)

Okay, deep breath!! I have checked and do indeed seem to have access to May 2011; let me know what you need :-)

Cula Bula Pink 8-)

Alas my second draft now been with my supv for last four weeks and I have horrible feeling that for the first three weeks of the four, it was not read:-(. I have been proofing madly and fixing and tweaking so it's almost ready to go save any changes he wants.

Resist the urge to fling hardcopies of thesis Pink_Numbers when you're handing it in! I know that's what I'll want to do with mine!

Good luck all (up)

Hopefully submitting sometime in August :-). Actually I think it'll be just under the 300 page mark, not 350. It's long though, c 99,000 words. My supv constantly said expand, need more here, and here, and here. I have a lot of context which he likes - just hope my external is of a similar mindset! Our wordcount is 80-100,000 so I'm just under the wire!

I must check out with my uni postoffice about the binding. I think they're okay for a large hardcopy but I'll check it out.

Good luck with yours - nearly there(up)

Note to self: update CV with new word skills:p

I managed to do it both ways Corinne and Dunni, thanks a mil :-)

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Thanks Corinne, I'll give that a try. I don't have Vista but I was thinking of opening my thesis on my daughter's laptop as she has Vista; I think I can do a 'manual' table of contents with Vista. Hopefully I can do that as well as those pesky landscape page numbers.

Good luck with your viva(up)

Edit: just see your reply Dunni, thanks - surely between those two options I can get it looking the way I want:$

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Keenbean-best of luck with your final few days before submission (up)

I'm shortly behind you in terms of submission but my supervisor also got me to add an additional few thousand words very late in the day and my heart fell when I realised what I had to do. I'm not that happy with my discussion as I feel it reads like I have run out of steam, which to be fair I feel that I have. I think the rest of the thesis is okay but honestly I don't really have anything left to say. You have publications behind you which I'm sure will impress any examiner. Some people put these in as appendices as a sort of tacit way of saying 'here, journals think I'm good...'. Have you thought of doing this?

Also, how long is your thesis in terms of it being too big for normal binding? Mine is coming in about 350 pages including everything - is yours longer?

Edit: spelt your name wrong:$

I have a related question :-) to Delta's orientation query although maybe I need to get a grip and stop being so antsy about things!!

I too have a couple of landscape pages inserted in my thesis. My department regulations state that page numbers be at the bottom-middle of a page. As a result the page numbers of the landscape pages appear in the thesis up the side of the page, albeit in the middle. Still with me?!? All I could think to remedy this was to insert a text box with the relevant page number in the required spot on the page, only problem was the actual numberis facing the wrong way :-(


Anybody got any ideas of how better to go about this? (turkey)

Well done Alty for successfully passing your PhD.

I've no idea if you're Ireland-based but even if not, and given your topic, checking in with the political studies association of Ireland might be a good move. There is a link from that to political studies associations worldwide; might be a good place to start? http://www.psai.ie/resources/associations.asp

Hi Sunflower

I found Robson, C. (2002) Real world research: a resource for social scientists and practitioner-researchers. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. really useful.

I too have Flick (2006) and have used him and quoted him but hated the book (sorry Natassia!).

Also really handy, short guides to different types of social science research at http://sru.soc.surrey.ac.uk/index.html - most of them are only about 2/3 pages long so easy to read quick.

Many congratulations Fred on passing your viva; all these passes inspirational to those of us submitting soon(up)

think we're from the same era Eska! What about Adam Ant and Prince Charming? I even remember the moves:$ and I knew a girl who wore Adam Ant-type make-up - not me, honest!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p__WmyAE3g&ob=av3n