I agree, there was a facebook group ages ago, but I never joined because I use this forum anonymously (although I reckon if anyone does know me its obvious) - anyway, I don't want comments I make about how lazy I am being linked to my facebook profile so people can link the info.

I guess they want it more for the job search aspect of the website?

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ah yes, I do have this whole 'thing' that my research highlights and that past research has ignored - so I think I will be using that as an overall discussion. So for my discussion/conclusion chapter I now have....(titles will change)

Original Aim of the thesis.
OVerviews of study1, study 2, study 3
Contribution - what these studies have added
Implications for Research (this is where I talk about my big idea and why other research is rubbish and mine's AMAZING :p )
Implications for Practice (practical initiatives to address the problem I'm looking at)
Reflections on the REserach process and Methdology (why it was useful to use mixed methods)
Limitations
Future Research
Conclusions (not sure what to put here apart from "Ta Da!"

Can you just put it in a box on the right hand side near the advert banner?

I don't really know what a conclusion bit is? what do you put in it?

Like Dunni - each of my 3 studies are set out like scientific journals, so have their own intro, method, results and discussion sections. So I discuss the implications of what I have found in terms of the literature within each chapter.

I guess I should re-iterate that in the main discussion as well?

Oh dear, I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing (as usual).

I have

Intro
Lit review
Method
Study 1
Study 2
Study 3
Discussion.

Am I supposed to have something else?

What did you include?? So far I have

Summary of aims and each study
Implications of findings for research
Limitations
REflections on the research process.
Future research

well done! I published my MSc dissertation and recently found it was cited by someone :-) problem is, its in a 2011 journal and I can't see why/how they've cited it - they could have slated it for all I know, so holding back judgement :$

Is there any way of creating a mendeley database from a word file?

I have a mendeley data base and I have put references into a document.

But I would like to create a new folder in mendeley, just with the references from that document, and I don't want to have to search and find them all and then move folders, I was hoping there would be an automatic way of doing it e.g. 'select all references that were put in document x' button??

naturalme - my hubs was annoyed with it cos it had too many humans in apparently - not enough robots. Also there was a whole storyline presumably to shoehorn in the pouty lipped girl who wore white the whole way through the film and about 15" laboutins - I was like "that girl would at least chuck her hair in a ponytail if she was running about like that!" anyway, funnily enough hubby was annoyed by this and would have preferred more of bumblebee and co.

didn't kill it batfink - I was carted off to see transformers 3, it was nice to have a break, but I only have 8 days until I need to post off my 1st draft, so need get cracking today.

I'm trying STILL to finish off this method section of this chapter. I've just put in another reason why I've foudn what I've found and its made a whole new load of work for me - but whenever I explain my results to me this explanation always comes up, so I have to put it in :-s

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I've never been one to measure success with salary, I know people who are on over £400k and it doesn't make them happy. For me though, I need a job that can challenge me slightly or at least that I can enjoy the company of my colleagues, if I can have one of those then I'm happy. My worry with the postman job would be, would you want to be doing it in 5, 10 years? will you get stuck in a rut with it? and will you regret not giving academia or a job related to your PhD a go?

i'm just about to send my intention to submit form in - early sep I've been given eeek! very scary.

Although today I'm going slow - I have a hubby off work - we can't go on holiday cos of the thesis, so he's milling around bored and wanting attention. tbh its really bad timing but he had to take the leave or lose it

I don't know either - that's the problem. I would kind of like at least one of them not to be an unknown quantity - even if you think they're going to be horrible, at least you know, if you know what I mean? - its going to be scary going in not knowing even what they really look like or how they'll approach the thesis! Quite scared now!

Just me today?

I'm having issues - mainly because I've spent about an hour eating lunch and going to ASDA for paper. I've just been told my internal examiner eeeek so its now feeling real and scary.

MUST get on with this stupid discussion!

hmm, my experience of this is that its all down to networking and showing off haha! I know people who have done PhDs on seemingly dull topics, by my, do they talk them up! There's one person who whenever I hear him talk I think "wow! - his work is amazing!" but when I go home and think about what he does, its actually no different than mine. In that sense, I think if you have a bit of the max clifford about you, then you can spin your research and promote it in such a way that it does make a splash. I prefer to be a bit more modest (which my sup HATES) and I down play everything I do.

Liklihood is - if its making that much of a splash then they probably haven't read all the literature - I'm doing a topic where there have only been 20 articles in 50 years on it, but I'm forever finding things that are simlar in other disciplines. I could spin it to say there is NO research on this, but I've taken the approach of saying, "well actually xyz have looked at this, but I'm looking at it from our perspective"

I'm rambling. Anyway, no - PhDs are usually babysteps, its how you promote it that matters I think.