Discussion question
What support did you need?
Julie
You need the support of your tutor definitely but also that of your peer group, people who are doing their dissertation at the same time, people who have gone through it who can help you as they understand what you are going through and have been through it. As well as your family and friends and if you are working, your employer, and maybe they'll consider study leave or just easing up on work for a while, that can be important.
Phil
I think it was probably friends and family who were the most important and I found myself a bit isolated and would have appreciated a peer group to trade ideas with but that wasn't there so I was relying on immediate family.
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