Transfer of Status for DPhil student at Oxford

Hello,

A current 2nd-year DPhil student in English, I recently received a notification of the outcome of my Transfer assessment. This was my second attempt, and the assessors did not recommend Transfer to DPhil status; they suggested a transfer to MLitt instead.
Obviously, this is a major setback for me, and realistically, the grounds for appeal are limited. Thus I'm considering asking for a third attempt. Would anyone know the procedure to do this?

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thank you.

Hey, sorry to hear this, what a stressful time. After your second unsuccessful attempt I'm afraid you cannot request any more. Your only grounds are to appeal but this needs to be carefully thought through. You can appeal on procedural grounds or academic grounds and you need to decide which area to focus. Is there a record of issues in your GSR? What did your first transfer fail on, was a plan put in place to get you to next transfer? Were you offered an extension rather than applying for transfer again? Did you know this would be the outcome when you applied for the second transfer? Has your supervisor been supportive, was it the same assessors and are they impartial?

Usually, it' not possible. You could appeal the decision, and unusually you can do this on academic grounds in the first instance (but not after that). You need to start by having a frank conversation with your Director of Graduate Studies.