24th July 2008, 09:12 PM
Quote:quote: I would also add that you should use the time you have to pick a dissertation supervisor. The best thing you can do is ask some of your PhD student tutors who makes a good supervisor in the department and who doesn't
Cheers for the advice Windbag
I already have a personal tutor within the department, who is allocated from when we are freshers to when we graduate, and I assume would be the person who guides us through our dissertation too. She has a PhD in prehistory (not entirely sure what aspect) and a lovely person but is a bit...scatty, shall we say.
I'll certainly ask around the postgrads and fish for more information. Unfortunately the Department's in turmoil with building works and has had a significant changeover of teaching staff in the past couple of years, and may of the supervisors they had have moved to greener (muddier?!) pastures.
Thanks also to deposit-it. That's certainly given me a few angles to start looking at thing from now on.
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