Hello everyone,
I am a first-year PhD student, and I started my PhD in October. I started with a PhD proposal and due to many disagreements with my previous supervisor on the proposal after my arrival to the UK, we decided to change the topic. She said my proposal is "easy and anyone can do it!" Accepting to change the project at that time was a mistake! The first semester was wasted working on topics related to my previous supervisor's area of interest, but by the end of the semester in December, I was fed up with her perspectives, personality and with imposing her ideas on me. I decided to change the supervisor, and I would never regret that. In January, I decided to go back to working on my own proposal, and I started working with a new supervisor, who is open-minded and who liked the research project as it is. By coincidence in the end of February, I came across a PhD thesis which was submitted last semester and is very similar to my PhD research questions and objectives. I decided to be honest with my new supervisor about it. She asked me to write a new proposal, and she left it totally to me to choose what to do. Since then, I have researched different topics and found myself interested in different things. One of them is somehow related to my first proposal but am still confused about how I can do it (methodology, theoretical framework, etc.). The other ideas I have are totally different from my first proposal, and I conducted a pilot study about one of them. When I review the literature, I wonder whether my different ideas are really original or not! I can hardly maintain my interest in one of them and stick to. I feel lost. I started my PhD six months ago, and have not really done any real progress so far! I have to start a project in April. What should I do? How can I choose one of the topics I am interested in?