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Feb 2020
11:07pm, 28 Feb 2020
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Dr PhFleecyD
Not as annoying as getting shit pay, insecure working conditions, being overworked and having unis spend money on buildings instead of staff...
Feb 2020
6:46am, 29 Feb 2020
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Tomsmum
Oh I know and I am supportive - just .. timing
Feb 2020
7:32am, 29 Feb 2020
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LindsD
And overpaid, dim VCs...
Feb 2020
9:47am, 29 Feb 2020
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Grast_girl
We share your frustration tomsmum. I've held out on voting for strike action so far, but only because of the effects on my students. Have a full weekend of working ahead of me, and will still be behind. Even our flawed workload model has me on 2200 hours per year.

I had high hopes of our current VC when he started, but I don't think many VCs are up to much.
Feb 2020
11:49pm, 29 Feb 2020
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LindsD
Could have written that post myself
Mar 2020
1:55pm, 2 Mar 2020
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Carpathius
Just coming in to moan, otherwise I might burst into tears in the middle of the library.

Dissertation - systematic literature review. Want to do it on patient experiences of pain in venous leg ulcers.

Have spent hours and hours searching databases etc and then narrowing down with exclusion criteria. Not sure I've done that properly.

Anyway there is no recent research I can find that looks specifically at patient experience of pain. Some on general experience of living with leg ulcer, some on specific interventions. I might be able to extract some patient pain experiences from some of these but it isn't the main focus.

Papers supposed to be within last 10 years. There is stuff before that but not a massive amount. And I'd have to justify why I went so far back.

My supervisor hasn't replied to me after I had to cancel our last meeting which was to look at papers I found and see if any were any good. She doesn't work Mon or Tues.

So this morning I have spent some time trying to revise the question. But the two alternative questions have been the subject of systematic reviews already.

I'm so stuck. I don't want to waste all the work I've already done but if I can't answer the question from the literature I'll have to start from scratch, and I have no ideas :(
Mar 2020
5:45pm, 2 Mar 2020
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Dr PhFleecyD
You sound like you’ve done ok Carp, you can’t magic up papers from thin air. Usually with these sorts of exercises they just need you to have ticked the boxes: can you set up an database search and apply filters? And then I’m assuming you critique the papers or draw some sort of conclusion about the current state of research and what else needs researching. You could double check you’ve not missed anything blindingly obvious by using Google scholar and also by checking the reference lists of some of the more recent papers.
Mar 2020
6:02pm, 2 Mar 2020
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Grast_girl
This is assuming your whole dissertation is a systematic review. If you've checked a couple of databases, and documented your search terms, what happened when you excluded based on your exclusion criteria, and then come to the conclusion there aren't enough papers, then it should be fine to expand/change your research question.

Alternatively, if you then go on to study the thing that has had no recent research done on it, you've just proved why it needs to be done.

You could also look at various forums/facebook groups for anecdotal data.
Mar 2020
6:28pm, 2 Mar 2020
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LindsD
That's what I was going to say. :)
Mar 2020
6:35pm, 2 Mar 2020
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Grast_girl
I'm beginning to think we're actually clones of each other LindsD.

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