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+ | ====== Arranging Project Supervision ====== | ||
+ | After proposals have been submitted, they become available for arranging supervision once selection has been opened. This will be announced by e-mail. Supervisors can then view your proposals (that are listed as available), and students can view staff proposals. You can only see proposals that match your degree, but you should question if they are suitable and potentially discuss this with the proposer. It is also still possible to edit your proposals and add additional proposals to the system (until proposal submission has been closed, which is usually done at the same time selection must be completed). Suitable navigation links will then be available in PATS to view proposals and express interest in them. Deadlines for active tasks are visible in your task list in PATS. | ||
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+ | Initially, you should **express interest** in the proposals you are considering on PATS. This indicates to the proposer that you may want to do the project, but it does not mean supervision is agreed upon. Members of staff can see which proposals you are interested in, and you can see who is interested in your proposals. PATS shows a plain list of all proposals but also a list of supervisors (or for supervisors, | ||
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+ | Then you should **contact supervisors to discuss the proposals to agree on supervision**, | ||
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+ | You must **discuss a proposal with a supervisor** before supervision can be agreed upon. This should be done with an **in-person or virtual meeting**, not an e-mail alone. If you wish to do the project, clearly indicate this to the supervisor during the meeting or later on via e-mail. | ||
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+ | **Discuss the following during the meeting**: | ||
+ | * **The project** and any **clarifications** on the problem or its specific version (in case there are multiple options). | ||
+ | * **Expectations** of what should be done to complete the project to a specific standard. | ||
+ | * Your **degree scheme** to ensure the project is suitable for you. | ||
+ | * **Supervision arrangements** such as regular meetings and communication (project management is the student' | ||
+ | * Any **special resources** needed, **ethics** or **legal** issues related to the problem to ensure it is feasible to execute. | ||
+ | * If you want to **decide later**, the likelihood of the proposal and supervisor to remain available (in the time the proposal may be taken by another student or the supervisor may run out of project slots). | ||
+ | The student and supervisor are responsible for the project being executable in principle, including any appropriate risk management. This should be clear before project supervision is agreed upon on PATS. | ||
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+ | If a supervisor is happy to take you on for a project and you agree to do the project, they can **select to supervise you** on PATS directly. Once this happens, you have a project agreed upon and cannot select any other project; if there is a problem, please contact the project coordinator (a change without a well-justified reason is unlikely). You will receive an e-mail from PATS that the project has been created and see the project with details (instead of the proposal/ | ||
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+ | Note that supervisors can only choose to supervise you on a project in which you have shown interest. If it is your project, they must show interest before they can select to supervise you. This is to reduce mistakes in agreeing on supervision. | ||
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+ | After supervision has been agreed upon, the proposal accepted will become unavailable, | ||
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+ | If you do not select a proposal by the deadline, you will be **assigned a random supervisor shortly after the selection deadline**. You must then agree on a project with this supervisor, which is likely based on one of their projects still available or your project if it is feasible. At that stage, there is no other choice. This is not in your interest, as you may well get the worst possible arrangement. Even if you cannot find a perfect proposal or cannot find a supervisor for your own proposal, it is still better for you to select a proposal than not select anything at all. Note that the deadline cannot be extended as no supervision slots are available after this has been completed. | ||
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+ | ====== Changes to Projects ====== | ||
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+ | After supervision is agreed supervisor and project cannot easily be changed anymore. Many projects have a range of possible directions or approaches, which you can still select from, and these are often indicated in the proposal/ | ||
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+ | A **major topic change** that is not within the remit of the project proposal agreed upon (and potentially refined in the project description once the project has been created) requires **agreement between the supervisor and student**. Otherwise, even a successfully executed project may result in failure due to working on a different topic. Usually, supervisors are flexible, and projects can be adjusted, particularly if there is a reasonable justification for it. However, they must remain suitable for the module and degree scheme you are on, and you cannot arbitrarily change the project. | ||
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+ | A **change of supervisor** after the deadline of the project selection is generally impossible. It will only be considered if the supervisor becomes unavailable for a long (most/all of the term) period or similar major reasons. If there is any issue, discuss this with the project coordinator. |