Hi all.
I took yesterday my postponed midterm VIVA (I started the PhD 2 years ago) and examiners couldn't grant me a PhD.
However, because the project is the fruit of a collaboration between my university and a gov run lab it was decided
that my studentship extinguish within one year (in the meanwhile I'll have to finalize the promising results contained in
the report) and only after that I'll be awarded with an MPhil. Do you believe there's any chance I can upgrade
this Mphil on the basis of the papers I may issue in the next months?

Hi nicop92,

I would talk with your supervisor and students union ASAP about this. It seems very very weird that they have downgraded you to an MPhil but want you to continue working on your publishable research. Usually having publishable material is good barometer of how good your work is and just seems strange that they acknowledge that but downgrade anyway. I would fight it saying that you have a made a "significant contribution to literature" and give the papers as evidence.