I'm not sure on the first two questions regarding you tube and 1GB, but I have 500MB of data on my mobile package and I never use that. I don't watch many you tube clips though, maybe 5 a month at most.

On my phone (iphone) it always looks for wifi first and will use that instead of using mobile data if it can. Can be annoying as sometimes it taps onto wifi signals that I don't actually have access to (BT Openzone being one example) so I do sometimes have to swtich wifi off when out and about.

Hopefully paper has gone to you.

PS it is the best outfit on here!

Hi Satchi, being a wally I just accidentally deleted your PM. Can you send again.

PS nice outfit - we could be twins!

If you still need this, if you PM me your email address I can send it to you.

Mine is like a standard job. Pay day is usually the last Firday of the month, as long as ths is before the 27th....(I'm not sure why but it meant I got paid on the 24th this month!).

I started in January and got my first pay cheque at the end of Jan.

I agee with Screamingadabs (sp? sorry can't quite remember!)
I'm not sure I can see the logic of leaving them off. Having them there may mean other people look at your work (if you sups are big names in the field for example) and they may also look over drafts for you if included. Plus it keeps them happy which is a good thing if you want to work with them again.

I had a gap year between UG and MSc, but did not fill it with anything productive. I worked full time in a bar, got drunk a lot on had a month in China. I don't regret that year at all! It was nice to have a year not studying, whilst I was young and carefree! Personally if I had a year to kill before doing a masters, I'd live whereever I could live the cheapest, work full time for 6 months (saving as much money as I could) and then travel for 6 months before coming back and doing the masters. But that's me. Possibly there are more career minded answers!

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I agree with Adam. Completed as best I can but it was sometimes hard to pick and answer that applied, so I had to go with the 'I don't care about.....' option when what I meant was none if the above count. My cat is not deliberately contained, but is unable to leave the garden due to age and health problems that prevent him getting over the 6 foot fence.

I think I had a very different PhD experience to a lot of people. I made a lot of friends, in my department and in my field, I got on well with my supervisots and didn't have any mental or physical problems.

I learnt -

1) it's important to keep a work life balance and not get totally absorbed in your project to the detriment of other life aspects. I knew far too many people who would work all hours and feel guilty for any time off. Ok so my PhD took four years to complete, but I got there without a break down.

2) a thesis doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be good enough.

3) if you want to stay in academia publications are the most important thing you can have.

4) If you're recruiting from the NHS, clinicinas will promise you the world but wont deliver unless your sat in front of them.

5) In a similar vein academics will often say they'll do something and then not actually ever do it. They need to be subtlly managed.
6) NHS research ethics is one of the most painful procedures you can go through.

All my questionnaires and cognitive tasks went in as appendices in my main thesis. I also had to submit an electronic copy which can be accessed electronically form the British library and I removed all copyrighted material from that as I didn't have permissions to include them as appendices and didn't really want to get permissions for 30 or so cogntive tasks and questionnaires.

Done it as I'd done it before you lost it, but having trouble with the survey.
One quick point, on question 7 if you tick a box for yes or no and then fill in the why......? box, the tick gets removed from the yes/no choice.

I gave my supervisors as close to final drafts of each chapter. They made comments, I made changes as they suggested but never showed them the chapters again.

I agree with the person who said that 20 000 word chapters sound quite long, so it could be a good time to cut down bit that are not needed.

I also agree with looking at teh bigger picture. Do the chapters flow well from one to the other.

(sprout)(sprout) * I think it definitely looks like a sprout!

Someone in my lab had ESRC funding, and got pregnant. I'm pretty sure this is how it worked for her. She then took another 6 months off unpaid before coming back to finish her PhD.

I agree it's a worrying trend. I saw a similar ad (also at Birmingham) last year when I was job hunting, and I thought "not a chance I'd apply".
I answer this as someone who did work as an HONORARY assistant psychologist, two days a week for nine months. As Keenbean mentioned, I did it as at the time I was hoping to go on to do a clinical psychology doctorate and it was pretty difficult to get paid assistant posts at the time without a lot of experience.

The place I currently work has quite a few unpaid assistants getting experience. I don't really know exactly what hours they do, but they certainly do an aternoon or two a week. One girl has been there a few years and did manage to get a paid job out of it, at first two days a week and then full time the last 6 months. She has moved from doing mainly clinical stuff, to doing a lot of research work, but is due to leave soon. My boss wants to replace her with an honorary post, though at the moment we're all unsure how many days and whether it the repalcement will be more for the clinical stuff or research. Personally I feel if you have work that NEEDS to be done, then someone should be paid for doing it. If they are there to get experience for themselves then maybe I can see the use to the candidate. On the otherhand my boss has no money as such to pay someone (the current post is paid out of his outside consulatancy work). And if she doesn't get replaced the research jobs will probably pass to the current post docs (i.e. me and my two colleagues) who all have full time projects of our own.