Hey guys, do you know what'll happen if you dont submit your thesis loan and deposit form? If I don't agree, then I suppose the school/ library won't be able to keep a copy of my thesis in the public. I'm not happy to have my thesis either stored in the library or online. But the admin told me that the max. period to impose a restriction is 2 years with possibility to extend further. What am I to do?

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Hey guys, do you know what'll happen if you dont submit your thesis loan and deposit form? If I don't agree, then I suppose the school/ library won't be able to keep a copy of my thesis in the public. I'm not happy to have my thesis either stored in the library or online. But the admin told me that the max. period to impose a restriction is 2 years with possibility to extend further. What am I to do?

You can't look at much until you've tried it or at least get him to tell you his supervising style.

Hi, thanks. Yeah I agree that it could mean so many things. But as a prospective students, I can't judge/assess how suitable a supervisor is for my research, based on 1 meeting with him.
Also, when choosing supervisors I notice that some of them have very strong opinions in what should be changed in my research outline. And some of them told me that there's no need to change. This has started to worry me because I want to do what's been proposed in the outline. Do you have experience working with supervisors who are very strongly opinionated, and does this make your life a bit more difficult?

For me, it's their cv and titles. Publications, international conferences. And very often, if he's good at what he does, he would be invited by a lot of places to give lectures. Most people in the field would know who he is.

so the reputation of my supervisor will mean hardly anything, since I'm not aiming for a academic job?

Yeah, Thanks for the insightful comments. I know being supportive is very important too. But I can't really tell wheather they are supportive or not based on the communications I had with them. This will probably only be tested half way into my phd? which means it would be too late to change a supervisor anyway.

Hiya, thanks.
I'm not considering academic career at the moment. This is not to say that I want to work in a private sector. I'd probably want to try a job in the public sector. Now does that make a difference going for a more reputable supervisor than a university?

Institute is that important? I don't know if I've given you the impression that I could get a place at Oxbridge. I don't even know if I could get into LSE. But certainly the well known ones like Manchester or Birmingham. So let's say comparing these with the Reading, Liverpool, Essex, is there really that big of a difference?

So I should go with whoever I'm comfortable working with and disregard the name of the university?

I'm looking to do a PhD and have started looking at several top 10 institutes in the UK including LSE and UCL. I noticed that the department I'm interested in at LSE has a lot of young lecturers from MIT, Harvard, Princeton, who have the same research interest as me. But am worried about their lack of experience in supervising students. As for UCL, their department doesn't have anybody that can supervise me as far as my research interest is concerned. So I am starting to widen my options, that is to consider universities outside the top 10 or 20 league. There are a couple of professors with good publication records and reputation in their specialisation, the only thing is that they don't work in so well-known universities (Essex, Liverpool and Reading). My question is that I'm pretty sure that with my grades I can get into the top 10 universities. Now for my career prospect, any advice on what I should do?