I'm also joining the club of those-with-two-stars-wanting-more!!!!!!!!!!

I was at a conference last week and my oresentation was really good as I had a lo of questions aftrewards and an interesting discussion started!
Then, my supervisors told me that my theoretical chapters are finally almost OK and that they want me to highlight the changes that I will be doing form now on, as they are so minor that they cannot detect them in the text!
And finally, I got invited at another national conference in my country, which I think is important as I am getting known (is there such a phrase???) there!

If I can do it (while working FT and having Greek as a mother language) then anyone can!!!!!!!!!

I was in a similra situation also!
My ex-boyfriend was a medical doctor (a "real" doctor as he was constntly saying) and I was (and still am) a PT research student and a FT Special needs teacher.
He never supported me in any way, because he believed that a PhD is something not so important. only a "real" doctor is important in a society!
He believed that him being a "real" doctor meant that he had a high IQ. And when we both took a test (after he inisted) and I had a much higher score, he was almost depressed and lept telling me that he was tired at that day, that the test was not a good one, not a "real" IQ test etc
Also, at a point he told me that he was thinkng of doing some research with another "real" doctor. And when I asked him how he was planning to go on with the research, how they designed it, how they were going to meet ethical issues, he just got real mad and told me that I was very arrogant, that I should have in mind that I was not the only one doing a research, that he knew what he was doing etc.
We broke up after a few months, because I couln't stand his behaviour, the high idea he has about himslef and the fact that he did not respect me and my work (both research and teaching).

P.S. At the end he never got on with the research, because he got stuck with the ethical procedures....

I am a self-funded PT student.
I have a FT work, which I "use" to pay rent, living expenses, fees, and travel to UK (I am from Greece and I am based in Greece). It is difficult (especially in the current economic climate in Greece), but I have found out that if you want something you can do it! This is my moto in life! And I really want this PhD (it's not going to help me professionally, but I love my subject and I want to acomplice my goal and then move to the next one)!

I have used it.
It helped me get organised. Otherwise I was lost in my papers and in coloured markers.
Although I haven't used all of its features, so I can't tell anything further.

I have thre supervisors. The first is my director of studies, my second is (now) an external and my third is there just because I have to have to intrnals.
The first two have equal contribution to my work. They read my work and they meet with me every time I go to the uni (about once every three months). The third is just a formality... I think the only information she has about my work is what I presented at a seminar she also attended...

I am not doing a FT PhD, but I am working FT in Greek education (I am Greek) and I am doing a PT PhD in a UK university.
I am now in my third year and I am writing up. I finished all my research in my second year, I could do it in my first, but I had to go through a very lengthy beaurocratic procedure in order to gain an official research permission to access my participants. So, this was a delay.
Now, as I said, I am writing my thesis. My supervisors want me to complete until September (in exactly 3 years), but I want to complete with the Olympics od 2012 (that is in June/July). I feel that if I push myself to finish in 3 years (as my sups want) I will burn out. So, I prefer to take a bit longer.
But that's only me...

Both my supervisors have all my transcriptions (they didn't want to listen to the recordings because they were in Greek and they don't undrestand greek anyway).
I don't think it is something bad. They were aware of how I got on with my analysis and they gave me some really nice ideas about what to do with my material.

I just remembered a very PhD-related dream I had a couple of weeks ago.
I was struggling with my literature review and particularly with Judith Butler and Foucault.
So, I had a dream, rather a nightmare, where Butler was fighting with Bourdieu! She was creaming "POSTMODERNISM" and he was screaming "POWER".....

Sad and scary, isn't it?

thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello!
Does anybody have acces to this:

Dallimore, E. J.(2000) A feminist response to issues of validity in research. Women's studies in communication. 23(2), pp. 157-181

Thank you!

I don't know if this is considered as PhD related, but since I have started my PhD and I have been reading almost exclusively English books and papers, I have started to dream in English... I mean all the dialogues are in English, all the signs are in English....
And my first language is not English...