Thanks, it's helpful to hear of people having goner through the same situation. I guess it really would be a bad idea so late in the day - just trying to cover all eventualities I guess. It is encouraging to hear you got through with minor corrections - at the moment I'm putting my hopes on not failing but getting sent away to do some major revisions, which I guess wouldn't be the end of the world :p

I am in the writing up stage of my PhD and am considering (if such a thing is possible) moving to another university. My original supervisor left about 8 months into my PhD - she continued as an external for a time but then resigned as a supervisor. The supervisors who took over do not work in my field at all - they are both psychology but have nothing to do with the area I work in and cannot advise on it. I know I really should have looked at my options at that time but had various other issues going on and really wasn't up to a big upheaval so I let things slide.

It wasn't so bad while I was still trundling along collecting data but now I am writing up I am all at sea with no advice at all. With the prospect of paying for another two terms at a much increased fee rate I'd really like to have some expert advice before I submit, not wait to see what the examiner thinks! Does anyone know if it is feasible to leave one uni and take a largely finished thesis somewhere else? Or is it something that's 'not done' and am I likely to find myself with a homeless thesis? Obviously it's not something I can ask my supervisor but I really don't know where to get advice. I'm really not happy with the lack of supervision I've had over a number of years and just wonder if I've left it too late in the day to be proactive about it. :-(