Hi Ian,

Thank you for the informative reply. He does not want to see the names of the participants, and I did not enclose any details about my subjects in my thesis for example their names, their identity are completely coded. However, I also cannot collect their personal data such as their tests scores in their university and use it in my thesis without their' permission. I have only their consent to interview them and to fill out the questionnaires. Now it is very hard to get hold of them as they have already graduated 2 years ago. So is my justification strong?

Best wishes
Nanaly

I am sorry I did not make this clearer I did not chase them by mysefl. It is the office themselves who did this on my behalf . I have been told that the EE is still examining my revisions.

Dear TreeofLife,
Your reply made my day to be honest. I thank you for your support. I tried to chase the the examiners and then I stopped as my research exams office and suggested not to annoy the examiners and they might get upset. Although I have now been financially affected and my employer wanted the outcome last Monday.

Dear All,

I have passed my viva with major correction to be done no later than 6 montths. I have submitted my corrections and I now have been waiting for the results for almost 3 months. I did all the corrections required except one that was not possible although I tried and the reason is that I found there is an ethical breach on my research if I did this particular correction. So if examiners here or PhD students know if this would be okay to not some of the corrections and my examiners wont fail me because of that?

Any reply would be really appricaited!

Best,
Nanaly