Information for Current Full-time DOC Research Students

The Postgraduate Tutor is Julie A. McCann. Do not hesitate to contact her for any problems, however small - it is best to tackle problems early.

Notice Board (last update 5/1/7)
October 2006 starters are required to hand in their 3 month periodic report by Jan 10!! See form and 'ALL you need...' section below


The IC print shop on walkway next to STA travel does printing and binding of theses. You can give them pdf even. And a purchase order .TheSummer PhD Fiesta Week 05. (previous year’s summmer event04)

Requirements and Milestones

ALL you need to know about Being a Research Student at the Department of Computing.
Timeline summary of all milestones - depends on when you started April or October (check with PhD Tutor if you registered outside those months for clarification).
Log-book must be kept by all PhD Students: suggested log structure, text (see section 17 QAA doc)
Rules for Research Student travel Funding (and forms)

Forms etc

Title
Periodic Progress report	pdf	word
Change of Supervisor, Change of Department, Interruption of Studies, Withdrawal and Other	pdf	word
MPhil to PhD Transfer	pdf	WORD
Thesis Template	LATEX (tar file)*,	WORD (to follow)

General Information/Resources

Guide to online research sources (journals, bibliographies etc)
Recruitment: Recruitment in higher education in the UK, and recruitment in research
Good advice:
- There is no advice, you have to make your own advice!
- From Stanford, on getting the most out of your relationship with your supervisor, what you read, organizing your research, and handling the research blues.
- From Serge Abiteboul, INRIA on how to choose a thesis topic - with a large pinch of salt!
- From David Paterson, Berkeley on writing.
- From David Paterson, Berkeley on choosing research topics, writing papers, giving talks, and technology transfer - tongue in cheek.
- From Maryland, on thesis writing.
- How Theses Get Written: Some Cool Tips - slides by Dr Steve Easterbrook, Dept of Computer Science, University of Toronto
- From H. T. Kung, Harvard, on types of PhD thesis, and on the stages of a PhD.