Why did they change the name? makes no sense. I have 18 for mac now so will try it. Would try the 14 day trial bu might drive me mad when the time is up! Just have to wait for the uni to hurry up and update itself as it still have version 17 (I'm still on 16 on my uni computer how 2007!)

sorry put on wrong forum. Can this be moved to current PhD students? or should I re post?

I've seen this mentioned on here a couple of times and was hoping to upgrade...those who have used it do you use a mac or a PC? My library has it for mac and even amazon seems to indicate it's not been released yet for PC, is this right?

I do have a mac but don't really use it. How similar is spss on a mac? I hate the office programmes on it.

Thanks for the reply anyway...some good ideas in there for next time. I ended up putting in something ok-ish....hopefully won't not get shortlisted on the basis of niot having a great answer to this.....more likel I work get shortlisted for submitted an online application for at 1.30am on the day of the deadline. Doean't exactly scream goos time management skills!!

Hi hope you good people don't mind me asking for help. I'm trying to fill in an application for a research assistant post (part time while I'm writing up) one of the essential criteria is "Commitment to and understanding of equal opportunities issues within a diverse and multicultural environment" has anyone got any idea what I can say in a paragraph other than yes I am committed to that! I just can't seem to get the wording right.

I did do a course recently on equality and diversity in teaching but don't know whether I can make that relevent to research. Seem to have brain freeze.

A star to any helpful users as have to get this in tonight! :-)

I was very excited to log on one day and discover my second star! Must have been helpful at some point. Anyway think they need to advertise them a bit better as I had no idea what the stars were and hence no idea I could award them to helpful people.

Back to emails I have a hotmail account but have it set uo so anything not from a contact goes to junk mail. Means I occasionally miss something but I don't get all the "buy our cheap drugs" and "enhance the size of your manhood" (I'm a woman :-s) emails bothering me.

I have three email accounts. This increases procrastination time as I have to check them all! They have all been getting about the same level of emails (particlarly spam, or messages from things I might have signed up for year ago but now just delete them unread). My uni email has been very very quiet. In fact I have received one email today!

If you have your account set up so you are emailed whn someone responds on here then you should be getting an email any time soon (or it will hve arrived by the time you see this!)

Hmm I'm intrigued too!
Guess it's possible they are from school and genuinely did find out about your research through that. I remember when I was younger not necessarily knowing the best way of going about doing things (such as contacting people and letting them know exactly who you are). Then again when at school I doubt I'd have contacted a researcher, but then the internet was pretty new (to me) and has changed a lot of ways people do things.

Anyway I have a feeling I'm rambling (it is 2am mind)! I agree with the last post and would contact them back with some polite enquiries about them. Perhaps say you'd have to verify the exact number after the weekend to get out of answering the questions, or just be honest and say you'd rather not as you are unsure who you are dealing with.

Woo lunch and a cup of tea, and I read 1 paper without a doze! Now off for another cuppa to celebrate!

I'm not even tired! I have a few papers to read and just keep finding my eyelids drooping. I'm fine with data analysis. Can read web forums till the cows come home (love that phrase...where did it come from?!) but reading papers.... nope straight to sleep. They're even quite interesting papers. Anyone else have this trouble? what do you do?

This month I have to have a 3rd year interview. I have to provide an outline of my thsis and provide a clear timetable summarising the steps I am taking to complete the thesis. I'm trying to make a time table at the moment but really don't know how long to give things. I will finish data collection hopefully by the middle of August, and have managed to come up with a detailed timetable of what I should have done in August and September but after that it's pretty much "just" write up. I don't know how long is reasonable to say I'll take to write drafts and/or papers.... how many chapters to say I'll work on at once.....how many drafts to say I'll do ... when to suggest I might complete. I have another 14 months until I *have* to submit (though no funding from October) so would rather be done by spring.

Has anyone else had to do anything like this? and what is realistic? At present I'm tempted to write Oct-MArch Write thesis and be done with it!

I don't really know but would have though putting the numbers or percnetages in more scientific. But then it depends where you're using it and why. Otherwise significant minority or subset. Words like numerous imply majorty, which it isn't unless normally groups of species are smaller than 40 (if that makes sense? - too much Friday afternoon to think!)

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I can't work at home. I get too distracted by daytime TV, housemate, the fact the "ooh look I could hoover the living room/wash up/do laundrey" etc. I do do marking at home though as get too distracted in the office.

edited cos that makes no sense! I mean for reading it's quite distracting having other people around, but analysis/admin etc I work better. I'm starting to worry where on earh I'm going to be able to write up....

I learned SPSS from Kinnear and Gray SPSS made simple. It also gives some basic information on stats tests such as which to use.

I went to a conference recently where one of the best talks the guy hada very few slide, but what he did do was start with a simple slide with hardly anything on it, then gradually build up the slide adding things as he talked about them, showing how they all linked together.

My supervisor suggested trying to get a pictre on every slide (nothing worse than being faced with piles and piles of text, where the speaker jst reads what's on there.

I use quite some animations. I think it can be ok so long as it's done for emphasis rather than for the sake of it.

I also try and make sure the text is the same size on every slide. Powerpoint automatically adjusts depending how much is on the screen. I think it looks better to have continuity.