Hi Sunny,
Sounds like you are in a tough situation! I would stay away from paying for a sup (or anything like it), the only think that I would pay for is an editing service.
Is it possible for you to get another sup at your university? Or if your uni allows it, could you get an external sup who is in your field? This way you would get the help that you need, but wont find yourself in any morally murck waters.
Best of luck!
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because I'm starting to think about fonts.

My university has not font related guidelines, so as long as it is readable, I can have whatever I like.

At the moment, I am leaning toward Georgia, or Palatino. But I can’t really decide.

What is everyone else using?

Congrats on both bits of news!
Totally fantastic!

I have done both. Have transcribed all of my interviews, and had them transcribed by a service.

Neither is perfect. As you get quicker with the transcribing it will take about 5 hours for each hour of recording. I have found that it is easiest if you listen with headphones, it just seems to make hearing what the interviewee is saying much easier, and I have also found that slowing the speech down to about 60-70% helps a lot too.

When you pay to have them transcribed you still have to listen back to them to make sure that there are no errors. The transcribers seem to type without the context, so they can make a lot of mistakes, so you will have to listen back and make sure that it is all correct.

I don't think that you 'know' the transcriptions any better if you transcribe them yourself - particular as you are using grounded theory, you will end up reading them hundreds of times!

Sorry, I'm not much help, although 1500 quid is a lot, not sure what the grant is for, but it might be better spent attending a conference or 2? :-)

Yup, you need to have your folder ending in .data n the same place as your endnote library file. If they are not together then endnote can't link them together. Try to move the .data folder, failing that you might have to re-attach them manually.

I'm in the same situation. Have discussed the results at the end of each results chapter. So the structure of my discussion chapter lokos like this:

Introduction and recap of the literature review
Major findings and how this integrates into previous research
Strengths and limitations of the research
Future avenues of the research
Short conclusion

It is about 5000 words all up.

I do. PM me your email address

Thanks for you help everybody! I have just had a read through, and happily, on first look it is a good paper, so there is lots of positive feedback that I can give.
As you Keenbeen, I will get my sup to have a look over it to be sure that I am not completely of the mark.
Thanks for the offer Wal, I'll PM you now.
Thanks again all.
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I have just been asked by a journal that has accepted a paper of mine if I would review a manuscript for them. The topic is in my area, so I am really keen to do it, but I haven't reviewed a manuscript before.
Having had a few papers reviewed, and had my fair share of unhelpful criticism, I am keen to keep the feedback positive, but other than making student essays, I haven't done anything like this before.
Does any one have any tips?

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I am right at the end of my PhD, 28, and I live in Aus, so it may be a little different.
At the beginning I was renting with3 housemates. Then my husband and I moved into his parents house for 12 months to save for a house despoit. In March we bought a house. So now we live in out own house. We have tried all of the options!

I find a routine really useful. I like a bit of order and control, so routine is pretty important for me. My PhD is in social sciences and I teach at another campus 2 days a week. So the days that I teach, I only do teaching stuff, and whatever admin stuff that has to be done. The other 3 days I work solidly on my PhD at my office at uni – occasionally when try to work from home it is a complete failure, I just can’t concentrate on my work and end up watching Gilmore girls or Weeds (or similar) episodes. On the phd days I get up at 6, am in the office by 7.30, have lunch for about half an hour at 12.30, and then work through to about 5.30 or 6pm. They are long days, but it means that I am not under too much pressure to work on the weekend.
This works well for me, but as the others have said, you have to find your own way to work.

Hi Keenbean,
I could right a very similar post. My supervisor can be absolutely fantastic, she gives great feedback and can be really quick. However, she also can be really, really mean. I am not a big crier, but she knows how to push my buttons. The way that I have gotten around this is to have another supervisor that I can get some balance and perspective from.
I agree with the others, she sounds like a determined career academic who is only interested in her research, and what you can do for her - again, similar to my sup. As for staying with her for 3 more years, I guess you need to ask your self what type of academic you want to be, and if being with her will help you to get there. I hope you can work it out.

congrats on becoming an aunty Sneaks! Being an aunty is stacks of fun!

Completed my goals today, and also started writing some job applications.
I'm not sure where I am going at the moment, I also seem to be doing a lot of work, but not really getting anywhere. I have about 4 things on the go - I need to finish one of the by the end of this week! :)