Hi Hugh, I've used stats in my thesis, but I'm not quite sure what you mean about showing the variables in brackets - can you give me an example?

Good luck GM! Sounds like you are all set - look forward to hearing how it goes!

I agree with TreeofLife - apply for the job. I would think most employers would consider a PhD completed as you have returned it with the minor corrections done.

I also agree about chasing it up again. I hope you hear soon - it has been an unusual and tortuous process.

I also have those feelings of 'it's all rubbish' - I think we're all just too close to our own work at this stage and it's hard to maintain perspective. Good idea for dealing with the negative thoughts, teegs! The other thing I guess is that some of the 'negatives' can go into the 'limitations of this work/ideas for future research' section of the final discussion.

Good luck Teegs! I know what you mean, I do best when the time for procrastination has long gone as well! You're nearly there :-)

Congratulations! It really is 'time for tea', or a beverage of your choice :-)

I agree with the above post about the person specification - I used to apply for jobs only if I met *everything* on the list of essential criteria (the word 'essential' being a fairly clear term, as I thought), but then I read about the research pm133 refers to, and realised I was in the group of people not taking a chance on things. Now I apply if it seems like a job I'd be interested in and could do. If everyone else is having a go then I might as well too!

Hi amilo

I share DrJeckyll's concerns that at the moment you may be experiencing symptoms of stress or some related issue. I see from your other post that you had a previous hospital stay and were in touch with a psychologist and psychiatrist. Do you still have a contact for mental health services? You are obviously a very intelligent person and I think these feelings you are having may be symptoms of being unwell - I would encourage you to have a chat with a professional. Take care and all the best.

I'm in Psychology too, but with a much bigger focus on qualitative work and stuff that you wouldn't expect to be replicable in any straightforward way. Funnily enough, and not that it helps you with this particular journal, I was reading something only the other day about how the replicability crisis was based on flawed research and there should have been no crisis!

Yes, it must be dependent on the field. Having run studies involving people and gone through the whole recruitment nightmare, there is no way I would entertain the idea of doing a replication. In my field, theories become reinforced by other people running similar studies using other groups of people and looking for overall trends.

I don't think they should mind you speaking to someone with the right expertise - it shows you're being proactive and careful.

What kind of studentship is it - uni specific or research council? I stayed where I was when my supervisor moved, both because he was moving to another country and because I was a year into a uni scholarship and everything I'd done was attached to the uni.

I think there is an element of luck in having someone with the right experience to hand, yes. I am in a similar position, with the stats not being quite the straightforward ones I'd hoped to use, and everyone in the dept has been asked for advice. At the end of the day, I'm doing an analysis that feels to me to be the best fit for my data, my supervisors are on board with it, and they've advised me to write my decisions/justification into the chapter, and to be prepared to answer questions about alternative approaches at viva.

Sounds like things are really moving along, teegs! I know what you mean about the bits you can and can't control - certainly my big thing all the way through was recruitment, and it is so good to know I don't need to do that at this stage. I'm planning on making all the edits my supervisors have recommended to my chapters and getting it all as finalised as I can before Christmas, then giving the thesis to my supervisors in the New Year for final feedback. I had originally hoped to submit before Christmas but, looking at the date I'd need to pull it all together in order to give my supervisors a fair chance to look it over before the holiday period, it's not really doable. Good luck with getting everything finalised!

Agreed, teegs - there are many people who are just as hard-working and capable as anyone else, but who don't experience things in that linear 'work>result' way. I don't think anyone working through a PhD is a failure and I would like to see us give each other a break.