finishing your phd: the end game
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Finishing your PhD involves far more than just writing up: drafts, reviews, rewrites, mock vivas, red tape, viva preparation, paperwork, searching for jobs, applying for visas, printing and binding all have to be taken into account.TRANSCRIPT
Rebecca Ferguson, Ann Pegg
WIP Seminar: 17 March 2009
The End Game…
Three months to go
•Three months notice•Notify Research School•Download form•Finalise your title•Finalise your name!
Things become more difficult
•Loss of OU facilities •Starting to look for jobs•Divided attention•Distance problems•Money issues•Visa issues
Shifting deadlines
•Involving more and more people•Working to their time scales•Waiting for responses•Other readers
Examiners
•Choosing internal examiners•Choosing external examiners•Timescale to suit examiners•Submission six weeks before viva date
Producing the finished work
•Word issues•References•Appendices•File sizes•Printing
Move to formal process
•Regulations•Letters•Handover•Observer•Chair
Waiting and applying for jobs
Preparing for the viva
•Practice viva•What is the practice viva for?•What are you being examined on?•Is it in your thesis?•Future research
The viva
•U501 Surviving the viva
(9 June, 10am, Systems Seminar RoomVenables)•Book•Audio
Corrections
•Starting again•Time and energy•New job•Supervisors
Binding
•Library requirements•British Library requirements
Ann Pegg & Rebecca FergusonThe Open UniversityWalton HallMilton KeynesMK7 6AA