My old Italian uncles, or, Doll's recent Doctoral Assessment paper & slideshow

Following Lindsay's lead I will upload my recent Doctoral Assessment. This consists of the quite ugly designed slide show (I know you will both recoil -- i was under pressure!) to which I winged my talk, then we had 2 weeks in which to revise our written papers that the slideshow was based on, taking into account feedback we received after our talks. At University of Technology, Sydney, all PhD candidates have to to this DA in their third year, to basically prove that by this stage to the Faculty and Grad School peeps we know what the frak we are doing.

Of course I still didn't know my frakking question, but after the torture I met my supervisor for a drink and he basically told me what my question is....which you can see in the DA paper. This was a great frakken relief!!

He also restructured my entire thesis, so the structure in the written paper is what i am following now (not the slide show version).

I am meant to finish in Dec 08..but I am requesting an extension, so hope to finish in June 2009. This gives me I guess 10 months from now to start wrestling the beastie to the floor!