Take the job.... Good for you! You will get something (more than money) out of it hopefully and in the meantime look for the dream job.

My only advice would be to just accept the situation as it is, take a deep breath and do the revisions. Count yourself lucky to have made it so far with funding in place. I suspect suing will just take up time and energy which would be better placed just doing the revisions. I don't say that lightly. I have just had my viva and came away with major amends.... Nothing insummountable. I also work full time and have two young children who I make sure I spend lots of quality time with. I'm planning a couple of hours tomorrow while I'm on a train to a meeting while I quietly ignore my blackberry.

So I passed my viva (with major amendments) on Tuesday. The examiners report arrived and basically I have three big issues I need to correct, but hoping for some advice about the best way to go about it.

I was expecting when the report arrived that there would be a clear list of things I need to revise/ add, but what I have is three pages about why my thesis missed the work of an important contributor in the field.

I have also been asked to justify my methodology, include some more results (basically everything I discounted) and explicitly say how my work contributes to professional practice.

My supervisor suggests I should write to the internal examiner with a plan of what I intend to change and how. Is this a good idea? I kind of just want to get on with it, not wait however long until she says yes (or no).

What happens if she says no? And what happens if she doesn't like my amendments full stop (she didn't seem to like anything I did at my viva)? Do people ever fail to get their doctorate at this point?

Yesterday, 20/5/14 I passed my viva (with amends.... Boooo). Can I call myself doctor yet or do I have to wait until I submit my revisions?

If anyone is interested... I passed my viva with amendments today. Horrible experience really..... None of the holes I predicted really came up. There are 3 areas to amend, one of which is that my literature should have included a look at x, which feels a bit unfair, but just relieved that it wasn't a referral. Especially as the internal examiner started off the feedback talking about revisions rather than amends and after the clear horror on my face had to be told it still meant pass by the chair......

Thank you for the really good advice...... One more day to prepare........ Then my mock before the real thing in a few days. I just can't get over the fact that they have already decided my work isn't good enough.

I have my viva for my DBA..... doctorate in business admin this week..... I'm panicking..... I hear that's normal.....

It's been 8 months since I submitted my final thesis and reading it back there feels like so many holes. I can't find ANY advice on doing a viva for DBA. Will the examiners already have decided to pass/ fail me?

Any last minute advice on preparing? I have reRead my work, including my first 4 documents which I passed but in theory do not count towards the viva. I have worked out what my 'contribution' in and why my work is original.

Anything else?