Sorry to hear about your health problems. I know how hard that can be from personal experience. I hope the time off helps :)

sorry, Of course you are right Ian, I read the surgery as after submission

Maybe your supervisor thinks you could get a better outcome than you think, e.g majoy or minor corrections instead or R&R and that if you tell them beforehand that there have been problems it will bias the examiners towards a negative mindeset on the day and would more likely get you a negative result?. TBH I would also think that examiners may think 'so what' as s many peple have issues along the way in their PhD?

Good luck, I hope it goes better than you expect.

Why not stay in museums even if it's not realted to what you do in museums now, like cafe, gift shop, education etc? Manchester has loads, natural history, MOSI, peoples history museum etc etc and lots of smaller collections :-) Google museums in Manchester, I'm sure there will be something going. If you wanted to do shelf stacking it;s the big ones that pay best, TESCO, ASDA, etc.

I'm humanities/social science but don't want to give away the University so I can keep my posts private ;-p The best thing you can do is always to speak to them. if you have a supervisor in mind come up witha reaserach idea and contact them about it. Good luck.

Check out the timetable for your course first. I did my MA part time in Manchester and most of the tutorials were weekends and the odd evening in the week. If you ask what they are doing this year on the course it won't be drastically different for the next year, it might just let you see what the overall attendance pattern looks like.

This will dictate the type of work you can do. If you have a skill or are already in a professoin try joining an agency. If you just want mundane work that pays well and won't tire you out night time shelf stackers in supermarkets get paid pretty well plus no customers to deal with!

Many congrats on becoming a father :) I have children too and it can be difficult. It's so hard to give tips about studying as all babies are different! so i'll do some general stuff.

* Sleep, take it in turns to have a lie in, there's no point 2 people up!. Tired brains don't work well adn your partner will need sleep too.
* Babies are usually easier between 3 months and when they get mobile. If you get relatively nothing done in the first 3 months don't worry, Try and do as much as you can in those quieter months..
* Childcare - see who you can rope in to help. From 6 months old babies can go to childcare. See if you can afford it for a few hours a week. You might qualify for child tax credits that might help with this. Childminders more flexible with hours and cheaper than private nursery. If you think you want childcare book now for when you want it, good places go fast. I booked mine when still pregnant!!
* Don't get distracted by all the 'goings on' at uni e.g conferences, speaches, training events. Only attend stuff that you feel you will get use out of as your time is now more precious than ever.
* You can't plan time management, babies are the boss but you can have more general targets like by the end of the month I want to have done such and such. Like pp says, have a list of tasks and go through them as you can. It's a lie you can plan out study time with children.so don't try to it'll just drive you nuts.
* Check your uni policy on paternity leave and holiday leave and take it. You're better off taking all your due in the first few months as you'll get no work done anyway.

:-)

You need to talk to them and check out what they are asking for. Some will only look at distinction grade masters irrespective of uni attended. Some want you to have done the Mres or MSc research beforehand. It's all about what they are looking for and tailoring you application to that.

Most postgrad fairs are happening right about now so you'll probably be best going to one of those and talking directly to them.

I'm also not sure it's about the uni you went to either. I have a high 2:1 with the OU and distinction Masters from a good but not Russell group or top 5 uni and got a PhD scholarship at a top university. Sometimes it's about related work experience and what you write on your personal statement too!

good luck

Well done Dr Satchi, I'm sure you'll be celebrating by now :-D

You think there would be an easy way to do this wouldn't you! I might have to download all the articles I can find of the first author into mendeley and then type the other authors name into the search button! I'm looking at two auhors who are really big and writing about the same thing and I actually can not believe they don't cite each others work as it's soooo similar, even down to their conceptual models.

How can I find if and where two authors are citing each other without opening all their journal articles/books and checking the bibliography?

Thanks :)

Ghandi was nominated for the peace prize 5 times and never won! So there we have it, if Ghandi can slip through the net how thorough is the voting process? I'll never win as I'm not in the categories, unless I do something amazing for world peace, lol and evn then peace prizes seem to go a lot to heads of state/high up gov officials or leaders and I'm not on of those either. :-/ I' not sure about how the science prizes work but I pretty much guess the voting does have bias.

I would say qualitative observation is not objective as your interpretation and what you see may differ to others, thus making it subjective. Usually you need to make clear your role in the research and how your mere being there impacts the dynamics of what is observed. As long as you ake your subjectivities clear observation is then as 'representative' (rather than objective) of what is observed as it can be (as long as you planned and did your observation well! Usually you would discuss your persepctive e.g realist, constructivist, feminist etc. And yes, you can just sit in the corner and write what's observed (withing the scope of your question) if that's what you want to do and it is appropriate to generating the data you want and will answer your research question ;-p

I was recently told a good PhD is a finished PhD. You say your supervisor 'suggests' and you think your work 'requires' you to look at all these things. Suggestions are just that, you don't have to do it and you aren't 'required' look at all these things. You need to narrow your focus to something achievable in the timeframe. Why don't you re-word the question back to you supervisor asking what they think is reasonably achievable in 3 years. It might be that you can compare lots of countries by choosing something around social identity that has already had a systematic literature review on it and review that systematic review, then look at one country of your choice and see how that compares to the review findings?. That way you are only really gathering data in one country but you are comparing it to data about other countries that has been investigate by others? That's how I have read what is being asked of you. Does that sound like it's more do-able? Of coures that depends on you being able to find a systematic review in that area, or tailoring your focus slightly to fit an existing review. Sorry rambling now. :)

Totally depends on what your offer is and what your supervisor is like. Some funding (even for arts and humanities) requires you to send a certain amount of time at your uni e.g a graduate teaching scholarship. Some supervisors want to see you in the office a few times a week, others are happy to see you jsut for supervision.