6 months of intense study for a PhD? Could it be you meant six years?

Morally wrong, that's correct. But it's your life. The problem is, if you complete the PostDoc project successfully, they will offer you a lecturer or associate professor position and then you will be faced with the same decision, expect that a few years have moved on. It will be easy to find a replacement postdoc person for you. You have to remember that you wouldn't be the first one to get trapped in academia, it happened to others before. Just talked to a senior lecturer today, 50 years old, never became a Professor, excellent publications, regrets he never made the exit into the real world when he was 30.

Purely based on my instinct, I would advise you to leave academia after one year of the PostDoc, at the age of 29. No rational reasons, except the insight that life moves on fast and travelling down the wrong road for too long could possibly result in getting lost...

I was recently seriously considering buying a used, white-coloured HUMMER H2, a 4x4 which is very thirsty and very big, loads of taxes and insurance and thus reasonably unreasonable. But I like it. I do wonder, though, if peoples' reactions would be hostile over here. If they were, I think hypocriticality would have reached its peak. See comparisons of plastic bag utilisation in Europe.

What did you think about Michael's forced exit tonight? I'm really confused and don't know what qualities Sir Sugar is really looking for. How much did Helen earn in her previous job? Who is going to win the show? And, is Alex really two-faced or is he really a capable guy and my instinct was wrong? So many questions...

Dear Lara, please don't give up. Arrange a meeting with both your advisors as soon as possible, agree the time plan for the thesis, arrange the mock viva, the day when you submit the full draft to your advisors and so on. It is not too late. Show your supervisors that you are willing to fight hard to make this happen! That's all they want to see at this point.

I admit it. The name was the hint toward my identity on this forum...

It would be wise to accept that, in reality, nobody cares about this particular "legal" issue. The legal issue is ridiculous, if you think about it. You work on the same subject as for your PhD, publish one part of this and then you quote it like some other person you don't personally know has talked about it. Ridiculous. Like split personality or something. If you want to make life more complicated, feel free to do so. My supervisor has told me that examiners don't like to read PhD theses with too much emphasis on own papers in the form of "Myself (2007) stated..." and so on. In many universities you are required to submit any paper publications together with your thesis, so they know what you've done anyway. It is very common practice to put excerpts from these papers into the actual thesis. Remember that every publication will have only 3-6k words anyway. So how many percent of your PhD thesis will that be? Even if you have 10 papers which is unlikely.

Hey Shani, I just read your article. Very interesting! I didn't know you're at LSE. That's a tough environment. But one of the best.

Makes sense, MissSpacey, but is basically wrong. If I research a subject area for years, mainly with the endgoal of a PhD submission but simultaneously publish a paper based on and incorporating the work I've done until a certain point, then it is perfectly acceptable to include this material into the PhD. Without the silly "myownname" (2007) citing thing. I know that this is perfectly acceptable, simply because that's what my supervisors told me. In this particular case, official copyright rules don't apply because everybody does it this way. Otherwise it would be nearly impossible to publish and complete the PhD at the same time.

If you start writing up at the same time as reading, there will be no need for a filing system. For example, you read a paper for your lit review, and write three sentences about it into the lit review draft word document. Plus, you'll always have a draft version of Literature Review, Methods, Analysis, .... at your hand. will save you a lot of time in the end.

you just could not recycle it for another, additional future publication.

Of course you can use your own figures, texts and whatever. You are the author, this is your stuff, just copy and paste into your thesis. Nobody on this planet will question you about copyright!

"because I can't plagerise myself??? because of copyright laws?"


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are you joking?

Helen is a two faced b**ch, in my humble opinion. Claire is Rottweiler.