Yep, just cut and paste into the one file. Surprisingly ok! I used Mendeley too - it just knows whether the references are different or the same so there are no issues there.

I always print out and read - I also find mistakes more easily that way.

Well at least they have been done, congratulations! I think worse case they will ask for further amendments, but this is probably unlikely, I'm sure what you have done is fine.

Hopefully someone else on here will have some direct experience. I understand you don't want the effort you have put in thus far to be wasted.

You should chase the editor for a reply.

Even if you receive an automatic reply from a journal when you have uploaded a manuscript, the manuscript can still take a while to be sent out to editors and then they can take a while to send it out reviewers, who can they take a while to respond etc

A month is long enough to wait for an initial response so contact the editor again.

"My advice on which to choose? Want to work in a bank - option 1. Want to work in academia - option 2. Now toss a coin and find out which one you really want to do.. if you are disappointed by the result simply do the other one :)"

This is great advice!

Sorry to you feel this way. I am also living in a flat and a city I don't like, so I can empathise!

In my case, I go home very frequently, so I can just about cope with it, but as a result my interest in my project is very limited, I can't be bothered to attend seminars or read about my topic, and all I think about are my next days off when I can go home. I imagine this could happen to you over the 4 years of a PhD project.

Luckily for me this is a postdoc with a short duration, but I'm not sure whether I will last until the end of my contract. I don't know how I've managed to last 8 months here already.

I can't tell you what to do - it's a personal choice you are going to have to make yourself. I would echo what others are saying though - funding is hard to come by in the humanities and self-funding is very difficult.

Personally, I've had enough and I'm actually looking for another job back in my home city now; some people around me understand this decision and some don't, but ultimately I view it as my decision and I have to live with the consequences. Time will tell if I have made the correct choice.

Sorry to hear of your difficulties. I think you need to talk to you administration department and see what they say. It may be that you can have another extension.

I agree there's never an easy time to have a child when you are trying to establish an academic career. My advice would be to finish the PhD first though, because sometimes the final year, viva, corrections etc can be more hard work than anticipated. Having said that, there's quite a few PhD mothers on here.

I don't think it matters too much whether you have a baby before starting a job, or once you have one. This is personal choice. I intend to have a job for a couple of years and then go on mat leave, but that's more for financial reasons and because I don't want a baby yet. I look at 35 as the cut off. If you want more than 1 child, it's probably a good idea to start trying before this though.

Think about what's more important, child or academic career? You can have a career any time, might not be the one you want, but it's achievable. The same can't be said about children.

I'm sure you will be fine if you make those corrections as you describe - sounds reasonable to me.

I'm not so sure they care that much when you get minor corrections, after all, at my uni you are able to attend the graduation ceremony without having completed them.

You can do it!

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I would take that to mean that respondents are considering things, and some respondents are considering them for the second or third time. Or like you said, some are both considering AND reconsidering.

I agree that's really strange. I haven't noticed it in anything that I've read.

I only did what they asked me to on the correction email - I ignored what else they said in the viva if I didn't want to make those changes, and I felt they were just personal preferences of the examiner. There were things they corrected on the thesis and I changed those that I agreed with and those that I didn't care about and left those that I disagreed with.

I also didn't do all of the corrections they gave me in their list either, because I disagreed with them or because they made the work too simplistic. There was about 20% I didn't do. I supplied a list of what I had amended and gave reasons for not making all the corrections. The internal signed everything off within a few days and didn't question anything further.

Mine were minor corrections, it might be a bit different if you have major corrections. I agree that the best advice is to do what they ask you to, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it in some cases.

As you are only 5 months in, you can submit an abstract that focuses just on the background to your project and the objectives of your PhD or a broader aspect of the research. Either approach is absolutely fine for a university conference.

Maybe you have numbered the references incorrectly or used one inappropriately? Or maybe you have formatted the reference list wrong?

You can ask the publisher to clarify what they mean.

I see what you mean. Most of my applications were actually just a cover letter and CV, so when it mentioned relevant research experience, I was just talking about my PhD and this wasn't being duplicated elsewhere.

I think you would just have to mention specific techniques you may have done in your PhD that fits the criteria they are looking for, even if it is duplicated in other sections.