Timing
You must have a project and a supervisor by the start of
week 9 of the 2nd semester. If you do nothing about
choosing one you will be allocated a project and will have
to put up with what you get so read what follows
carefully. Work on projects starts full time after
week 15 of the 2nd semester and continues until you submit
your dissertation. You may not go on holiday
in the dissertation period.
Proposing your own project
Student are encouraged to propose their own projects but
you must have academic approval before submitting one. The
deadline for students to submit proposals for their own
MSc projects is in week 4 of the 2nd semester.
Projects proposed by academic staff or external bodies
Projects proposed or supported by staff will be available
on MOLE to view from week 5 of semester 2 (external
project details may continue to be received and listed
after this date). This is the start of a consultation
period between students and staff. Discussions should take
place via the MOLE bulletin boards. Staff will
eventually pick students they want to do their
projects based on student suitability so it is in your
interest to actively engage with members of staff. No
projects will be allocated before Week 8 , so you
have plenty of time to investigate the possibilities.
Please have more than one project in mind as you may not
get offered your number one choice.
Project Allocation
Week 8 of the second semester is Projects Week. Taking
into account the various discussions they've had with
interested students, supervisors will decide which student
they would like to have on each of their projects, and
will make them an offer. This offer will be time-limited,
i.e. you will be given a deadline, typically 24 hours. You
may receive offers from several projects, but you can only
accept one of them. To accept an offer, you should reply
to the supervisor saying that you agree to do the project
(the supervisor will then tell the relevant members of the
admin team); you are now committed to doing that project -
you cannot change your mind and accept a different project
later. If you reject the offer (or if you miss the
deadline) the project may be offered to another student
instead. You cannot accept more than one offer.
In addition to any deadline you may receive in respect of
an offer, there is a global deadline at 5pm on Friday of
Week 8. Any students who have failed to secure a project
at that point will be assigned an unallocated project by
the Projects Officer (in practice this happens the
following Monday, so that supervisors have time to notify
us of late acceptances).
You are strongly encouraged to attend the third year
poster session which occurs during Week 11. After the
poster session there will be a social event for all second
and third year students, MSc students, staff and
Industrial Liaison Board members.
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