I said I would tell more about my Oxford conference trip after talking to my supervisor about it. So here goes: I got a result!

Although I never knew what the normal process of selecting an external examiner for a PhD student is, I do now. And let me tell you, it doesn’t involve a respected academic asking the PhD student, in person, can they be the student’s external examiner. It does involve the supervisor asking their first choice academic very nicely to be their student’s external examiner and hoping they’ve got the time and inclination to say yes.

I don’t do normal.

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categories: Academia
tags: Andrew, conferences, Oxford, PhD
series: OxMorph1