Hi Adikumar,
I'm doing my PhD part time over 5 years, I'm doing it in Bristol but I live and work full time in Ireland. I am able to carry out some reseach in Ireland but the lab work has to be done at the Uni, We use email, phone and sometimes Skype to keep in touch but I also travel over about 4-5 times a year for meetings, short courses ect. My supervisory team came over to me and stayed for a couple of days while I showed them various trial plots, plant samples etc.
I suppose it depends on how far away from the Uni you live, even though I,m in a different country I can either fly over -it takes 45 mins and flights can be as low as £10, or I can drive over using the ferry.
Obviously working full time and then working on a PhD doesn't leave you much spare time so you need to be fully committed to it, I love doing it so that makes it easier.

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Sounds like I'm not going too bad, my intro and lit review is at 6800 at the moment, 9,300 including the references.

UWE Bristol here, there's 24 access to library inc weekends, not sure about the commons rooms or office as I'm part time and not there much:-)

Hi all,
Just wondered in an applied science thesis with a word limit of 50,000 what would be an average count for the introduction and lit review?

I have the pdf of that paper, how do I send it to you?

Nice one, I got my first HPIC peak last week! what are you analyising for? I was separating phosphite and phosphate from plant tissues.(up)

with the kindle reader reader you can transfer pdf docs direct from your laptop using the usb connection for free, have'nt got one but thinking of buying one too.

It depends on the institute and the course, I went from a BSc straight into a PhD in Life sciences, just keep looking to see whats available and what the requirements are.

Thought I would be able to get them as we're in plant sciences here but can only get the abstracts.

I usually use an application of white sauce and the cauliflower is usually gone within half an hour:-)

Any particular area of pesticide usage you're working on?..... herbicides, fungicides?

Sounds good , will put it on my xmas list!

Veering away from the twitter thread, I'm thinking of getting a kindle, they look as if they would be very handy, what do you guys think of them?

I've been running some in vitro studies over the past few months, replicating the process a few times and even though I'm following the same protocols I still am getting some variability in the results. One prob I had early on was caused by a slight mis-measurment when I was diluting some chemicals I was using, it was only out by a  few micro litres but obviously it made a difference.

Well I'm into phytopathogens especially ascomyetes and oomycetes, if thats any good to u! And I live next to the bog of Allen :)