GOGSoc Episode VIII: I'm a surviva!

Ahhhhh, good old theoretical framework stuff

It's going slower than I'd like but it's going. None of the ABBA fans filled out my questionnaire so I'm having to work my way around that. Might need to do bits of top-up fieldwork but yeah, mostly writing atm! I nearly had a full (rough) first draft of my third chapter, but then I decided to scrap it completely and start again So I'm quite behindon where I wanted to be by now. Submitting in Sept 2021 or even Dec 2021 is pretty much off the cards

I've only done a very piecemeal draft on my lit review so far, so probably need to start doing writing alongside data gathering in the new year! I know how you feel, some parts I look at and think "How did I ever think that this made sense?!" When is your PhD officially ending in terms of the year you were given?

It sounds like things are progressing well for you though, which is great, given the bumpy start you had with your supervisor being on sick leave, etc.

I'm due to submit on 13th Feb 2023, so there's still time to play with. Plus I can always extend fairly easily on health grounds, or citing stuff from my formal complaint OIA procedure. It'd be nice to finish earlier than 2023 though - I've been doing this since Sept 2014

Ah I see! At my university you can extend reasonably easily, but you actually have more difficulties if you finish early! I know one student who finished in 2 years (instead of the 3.5 years his project was meant to take), and he had to justify why he'd finished so quickly. In the end he had to do extra projects for his funding body to get to the 3-year mark before he could put in for his viva!

Oh yikes, that must have been a pain for him! How annoying! Though finishing in 2 years is super-speedy

The person I started my PhD with at the same time (they are PT and I'm FT) is submitting February. And I still have NO DATA.

But... covid means we can't test face-to-face so won a grant to move all testing (psych) to online which means lot more data as we're not restricted to London, yay! I'm aiming to submit this time next year, fingers crossed please!

The person I started my PhD with at the same time (they are PT and I'm FT) is submitting February. And I still have NO DATA.

But... covid means we can't test face-to-face so won a grant to move all testing (psych) to online which means lot more data as we're not restricted to London, yay! I'm aiming to submit this time next year, fingers crossed please!

His project was proposed by his supervisor, and I think he was left to flesh it out. Turns out it wasn't really possible, so he had to do what he could with the bare bones. Luckily he got his PhD rather than a MPhil for his trouble!

Whoa, how did they get it done so quickly, and doing it PT too?! At my university, they wouldn't allow them to submit as it sounds like they were actually doing it full-time...

Yay for grant! I really feel for everyone whose research has been so impacted by covid. I'm fortunate that I'm winding down and mostly online research anyway, but a lot of my friends went abroad for their fieldwork and were holed up in their accommodation, unable to do much Everything crossed for you to submit this time next year

Although psych, they had everything online already from 1st month so had a lot of data already and just used that and cut out the face-to-face testing part of their PhD.

His project was proposed by his supervisor, and I think he was left to flesh it out. Turns out it wasn't really possible, so he had to do what he could with the bare bones. Luckily he got his PhD rather than a MPhil for his trouble!

Although psych, they had everything online already from 1st month so had a lot of data already and just used that and cut out the face-to-face testing part of their PhD.


Thanks TLG!

Wow, that's impressive, but seems a shame to rush - I'm trying to take my time to actually enjoy the process.

I'm sure you'll submit when you want to, you seem to have everything sorted!

Oh yikes That sounds a horrible experience for him, I'm sorry Glad he got the PhD in the end though!


Interesting! I guess face-to-face couldn't really be done coz of covid and they'd have to address that in their methodology? I don't know anything about scientific experiments but I've found it interesting how what ABBA fans say online and what they say in person/in an interview setting, can be quite contrasting...

Um so with psych (at least at my uni!) we often have to do 2-4 experiments for the whole thesis, mostly all face-to-face, some people do online and some do both. So for those that did their face-to-face early or online only they're sorted. And yeah covid stops people wanting to come in even if they were allowed to.

With methodology it really varies with what is influenced, so as you say the questionnaire part of some people's study will be different, for me though we're testing things like attention and memory, on the same platform we would in person so not really effected by methodology or bias in testing.

Hope write up is going ok! I put all of chapters into one word document this weekend! Was a lovely feeling. I also started to write my acknowledgments too (I'm thinking of including my amazing clinical psych I used to see )

Oh yikes That sounds a horrible experience for him, I'm sorry Glad he got the PhD in the end though!

Interesting! I guess face-to-face couldn't really be done coz of covid and they'd have to address that in their methodology? I don't know anything about scientific experiments but I've found it interesting how what ABBA fans say online and what they say in person/in an interview setting, can be quite contrasting...

My research includes work of people's attitudes, and it's amazing to read about people's motivations for divulging certain info in certain contexts but not in others!

Cheeky succesful grant

Yey! Congratulations! Is that grant specifically for your research or can you spend it on anything you want?

Research costs! Which is what I need the money for tbh!

How are you doing!?

Research costs! Which is what I need the money for tbh!

How are you doing!?