Are you in the Arts? I think that in the Sciences its more usual to produce a series of journal articles, rather than one publication (in which case publisher deals and royalties etc don't exist!). However, I did sit in on a session at a conference where a guy from a publisher was talking about monographs, but if I remember rightly (I apologise I didn't listen that intently as it didn't seem relevant to me!) he was talking about publishing during a post-doc etc. He did say the whole process took a while, so I suppose it can't hurt to do it early. However, is a year too soon? They'll want a pretty firm proposal that will probably go to peer-review, and if your PhD conclusions change...

In Europe (especially the Netherlands) science PhDs, or a collection of papers from a PHd are often published in a nice monograph-style publication. I've got two on my shelf, and I think they're really useful. I think the University pays something towards it?

Yep, as a resource your supervisor is as important as the institution.

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Ah yes, I saw that film 'The Revenge of the Box-Head Ghosts' a few years back, scary stuff... ;-)

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Herbicide/pesticide, potato/potahto... ;-)

Surely that recommendation deserves a star ;-)

Chris Evans' DriveTime on Radio2 is the only thing that keeps me in my office after 5...

Somebody's still grumpy about Obama's nomination...

I don't think many people will take that comment very seriously; it is not balanced, you give no context and is potentially offensive, which is ironic. This is certainly a forum to share problems and concerns with the postgraduate system, and you'll certainly find a lot of people who post here as a source of help and advice. Perhaps we can start this conversation again?

Your University I think matters more than your IB results. And this is in part because teaching does differ dramatically between institutions. I went to two very good Universities, and just the teaching quality between the two was very noticeable. Just because you share a lecturer with Imperial, doesn't mean that the module requirements are the same, or that the rest of the teaching staff are at a comparable level (though I'm sure they're very good).

Also, smaller Universities often have very good specialisms, such as Cranfield. Though undoubtedly the institutions you mentioned are also very good. Cambridge has the biggest Engineering Dept in the UK? And Imperial is renowned for aeronautics, as well as engineering more generally.

Its not like every pesticide is so strong its going to kill you and leave your children with two heads, but yeah it doesn't sound a great idea to pour it into a water course. I suppose it depends how much, how frequently they do it, and if it rained recently or if water levels were low (to dilute). Sounds like time to write an angry letter to the council ;-)

Interestingly, even organic food has a list of approved pesticides that can be used (some of which are artificial, copper and sulphur based etc). But substantially less is better than the huge amount we use at the moment I guess.

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