Hi Maria212, I've been in a similar situation however in the very end of my PhD. I found that it works better for me to take a week of leave at least to do solely PhD research. For the first 6 month however it's more on exploring your subject, doing lit review, doing some initial investigations. I suggest if you could try to apply to all possible scholarships available to have some time off work for study leave. My employer was understanding and provided me with unpaid study leave while I had short-time scholarship.

Hi BKA, are your trying to upgrade into PhD program after doing MPhil for one year?
Sometimes, as it happened with friend of mine, you might think of changing topics and graduate with MPhil first.
However, if you are happy with your topic, it helps to work out a strategy with your supervisors. It seems like you already have a working plan provided by your examiners. It pays to divide it into achievable milestones so you can track your own progress more easily.

Thanks Pjlu. Definitely, it's particularly hard not to think about it when it sits in the background all the time. It certainly caused lots of anxiety. I was on a brink to ask for help to combat it in student health centre.

Probably the issue is that my topic is cross-disciplinary and the examiner was too far into one discipline. However, again, I cannot see their comments.

I kind of managed to regain my composure meanwhile as I am starting a new exciting research project with good funding I've secured. =)))

Hi BKA, I am sorry to hear what happened to you. Are your supervisors able to provide advice? Perhaps, you can schedule a meeting with them and discuss your plans? Do you have any publications so far?

Yeah, I think it should be all good. I am trying to keep myself busy as I work full-time and do sports but still sometimes it makes me feel very tense as I am not sure what sort of critique I have received.

Thank you for your kind words. I am following a new to our university and country a model of PhD with publications. All work in my PhD thesis is either published or under review or has been submitted. Some papers has been cited already. That's why I was really surprised by one of the decision to renrol and resubmit. I have only one small part of my thesis which I'd like to upgrade from workshop paper to a journal publication. I suspect that it might be the case that one of the examiners was not familiar with this structure.
Do you think that if I will have viva I will need to respond to all 3 examiner questions?
To make thing more interesting I've secured an academic position in order to take which I need to finish by very earlier next year. That puts huge strain on me.

Hi, I recently submitted my PhD thesis and my uni received both examiner reports back. My university didn't show me reports but just said that they were divergent. Now they appointed a third examiner. From what I heard from my chief supervisor one examiner recommended just minor corrections and another said its not ready for viva and needs major rewrite and renrollment. I can't see reports until third examiner will provide theirs report back to uni. Might take several months. I tried to ask uni to show me reports but they declined. I am so really worried what's going happen. Anybody has ideas? Thank you.