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Entries from December 2009

An update: PhD, Holiday and New Venture

December 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment

What a difference a few months make! In the space of two months, I’ve managed to fit in submitting my PhD thesis, a week’s holiday in the Caledonia Pine Forest and starting up Interface3 – my latest venture!

If you’re on my facebook network, you’ll know that I finally submitted my thesis back at the start of November 2009. The title is “Understanding Requirements work in E-Science Projects” (the abstract is available here). I am still waiting to hear on the viva date, and if things go well, it should be soon. I have to say, that the last few weeks months were manic. Things were being pulled together and throughout this time my supervisors – Stuart Anderson and Mark Hartswood – and my officemates – Massimo Felici, Jenny Ure and Conrad Hughes – were all fantastic.

Much to the relief of my friends (some of who had started to send me messages checking to see if I was still alive), I printed and binded the thesis on 2nd Nov after an all night session of work.

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