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User: Jellybeanz2 - 21 May 2014 22:24

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?

User: jinio - 17 March 2014 13:59

I passed with minor corrections on 06 March 2014! Congrats to all other Doc out there who have passed recently too! J.

User: ae7 - 02 March 2014 07:06

Humanities. Passed my viva with no corrections. Emotionally drained, happy nonetheless.

User: ginga - 08 November 2013 13:33

Corrections done and dusted, took six months to produce an extra 61 pages with three more experiments in the lab. Got them signed off this week. Graduate in January!

User: doli - 02 November 2013 17:29

congrats to all
i need your guidance for getting addmission in phd program in UAE and get scholership for phd as well.
i am asian and my husband is working in uae. I have one year baby so cant afford to go in any other country for study.please guide me

User: zipidee - 29 September 2013 21:02

Handed my bound thesis into the uni last week! Didn't believe it was actually over until then. Phew! :)

User: Batfink27 - 11 September 2013 10:50

Had my viva on Friday, and passed with minor corrections. Just waiting for the list from the examiners and it'll all be over. So happy!

The viva was two hours. Tough questions but nothing I couldn't handle - I was surprised by how okay it all felt, actually. They told me they were very impressed with the statistics I'd taught myself, and gave me loads of suggestions for how I could turn the thesis into publishable papers, and afterwards my internal examiner said it was among the best vivas they'd ever done. Unbelievably happy!

User: apat - 09 September 2013 15:08

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User: mohana - 13 August 2013 19:27

I passed my Viva with no amendments at the end of July, submitted hardbound copies last week... and today I got my letter of conferment. I'm a Doctor now!!! I can't believe it after the really bumpy ride I had. I had my research topic approval suspended... and my supervisory team changed twice!!! Thank you Phd forum... I've been a rather shy contributor, but it was very useful to know I was not the only one going through similar trouble.
I got there in the end too ;)

User: Pineapple30 - 14 June 2013 10:12

Quote From snelison:
Can't believe i forgot to post on this thread as I've been whistfully eyeing it up for years!

Submitted January, passed viva April, submitted corrections last week, corrections accepted by internal this week.

Just got to get hardbound copy sorted for library and then graduation ceremony middle of July....and then submitting 3 publications to journals in July....

...but at this point, for the first time in a decade, I do not have a thesis to think about (piggy-backed MSc, MPhil, PhD) so to not have that sense of guilt when i'm sat not doing anything is what's most strange! Going to take some getting used to!

Congratulations Snelison! :)

Delighted for you!!

I know what you mean SN about not having a thesis to think about! Similar sort of journey ie one course after another (BSc, MSc, MSc, PGCert, PhD) and for the first time in a long time, at the moment, I'm not working on some sort of assessment for a course. Taking a break to reflect and give my brain a rest, although intend to get back into my health psychology stuff and PhD publications in July.

In terms of my hellish PhD journey (by no means representative of other PhD stories!),
- I submitted in 2010,
- waited 9 months for my viva voce,
- external examiner cancelled viva voce two weeks before viva,
- frantic search for a replacement examiner,
- resubmission verdict in 2011 (but received very positive feedback from examiners- I just needed to reduce it down to 100,000 words),
- resubmitted thesis in 2012,
- five month wait for decision on my resubmitted thesis
- minor corrections verdict awarded following resubmission,
- submitted minor corrections in 2013,
- corrections accepted two days after minor corrections submission,
- submitted hardbound copy in May 2013
- graduating as Dr. Pineapple in July 2013 :)

Got there in the end :)

User: snelison - 13 June 2013 15:06

Can't believe i forgot to post on this thread as I've been whistfully eyeing it up for years!

Submitted January, passed viva April, submitted corrections last week, corrections accepted by internal this week.

Just got to get hardbound copy sorted for library and then graduation ceremony middle of July....and then submitting 3 publications to journals in July....

...but at this point, for the first time in a decade, I do not have a thesis to think about (piggy-backed MSc, MPhil, PhD) so to not have that sense of guilt when i'm sat not doing anything is what's most strange! Going to take some getting used to!

User: ginga - 29 May 2013 16:17

Passed with minor corrections yesterday, have three months to do them.

User: ginga - 29 May 2013 16:09

Viva was yesterday, a gruelling three and a half hours but managed to get through it with minor corrections. Now got three months to do them.

User: Ants - 10 April 2013 17:39

Got minor corrections in October 2012 and these were approved two days ago (8 April 2013). So although I had to wait more than a year between submission and The End, partially because my subject, a politically dangerous branch of Iranian studies, hadn't been done at all (in my supervisor's words: "there is no field") and prospective examiners kept saying 'this is not my expertise', I guess it's now... done?

User: huhu - 10 March 2013 13:59

Hi

I've been dreaming of posting the completion of my PhD on this thread. So here it goes. :-)

Huhu, Doctor of Philosophy in .... Engineering, March 2013. :-)
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