Includes bibliographic references and index

Contents: Why and how to use this book -- Exploring routes, opportunities and funding -- Making an application -- Producing the research proposal -- Settling in and taking stock -- Interacting with supervisors -- Reading round the subject: working procedures -- Reading round the subject: evaluating quality -- Handling ethical issues -- Managing influences of personal circumstances -- Succeeding as an 'overseas' research student -- Managing your skills development -- Planning out the work -- Getting into a productive routine -- Cooperating with others for mutual support -- Producing progress reports -- Giving presentations on your work -- Transferring registration from MPhil to PhD -- Coming to terms with originality in research -- Developing ideas through creative thinking -- Keeping going when you feel like giving up -- Job seeking -- Producing the thesis -- Handling the oral/viral/thesis defence -- Afterwards --