Supervision

Your supervisor will advise you on your choice of research topic, inform you of any known competing research, give you bibliographical and methodological guidance, and indicate any lecture or seminars in the School or elsewhere that you might usefully attend.

S/he will also agree with you a plan for completion of the thesis within not more than four years (for students undertaking full-time study for the first three years) or not more than six years of study for part-time students.

Your supervisor will arrange regular meetings with you, and (within reason) any additional meetings that you request. At each meeting, the supervisor will make a written note of action agreed, and will agree with you a date for the submission of your next piece of work, and the date of a meeting to discuss that piece of work after the supervisor has read it (normally within a week of the agreed submission date). As well as the oral feedback given as these meetings, your supervisor will give you detailed, constructive written feedback on all work submitted.

Your supervisor will also inform you of conferences you might attend or where you might offer a paper, and will advise you on appropriate academic journals to which you might submit an article, and on your academic career prospects.

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