Finishing your PhD: the end game

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