Added 2020-21 deadlines information

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-author: jeremy
-date: "2018-03-27"
 title: Undergraduate Dissertation FAQ
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 1. When is the thesis due?
 
-You should become very familiar with the handbook for the Dissertation course. It has all the details you need regarding deadlines and can be found in the Dissertation module page on Canvas.
+You should become very familiar with the handbook for the Dissertation course. It has all the details you need regarding deadlines and can be found in the Dissertation module page on Canvas. 
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+For academic year 2020-21, dissertations are due 17th May.
 
 2. How do supervisions work?
 
-We meet once a month, for a total of 7 meetings (the first is for planning and subsequent meetings are to discuss progress). For each of the subsequent six supervisions, I'll expect you to send me some form of written work that we can use as the basis for our discussion *no less than 3 working days in advance of our meeting*. 
+If you are doing a 12k word dissertation, we should meet once a month, for a total of 7 meetings (the first is for planning and subsequent meetings are to discuss progress). If you are doing a 6k word dissertation, we should meet a bit less frequently, but still in the start of term for an initial meeting and then four more times before the final deadlines. Our first meeting is just to chat our your plans for your project, so you can just bring yourself and your topic. For each of the subsequent supervisions, I'll expect you to send me some form of written work that we can use as the basis for our discussion *no less than 3 working days in advance of our meeting*. 
 
 I prefer to schedule out the whole year's worth of meetings in advance so we can both plan towards these deadlines as writing milestones. You should also bear in mind that supervisors are not allowed to review written work in the final month of your dissertation period, though in light of what I note below, this shouldn't be an issue as hopefully by this time you'll be an independent writer!
 
+For scheduling, I use a digital tool which sends out automatic reminders and allows you to reschedule without having to chase me down. You can access the page for dissertation supervison meetings here: [https://calendly.com/kidwellj/ug-dissertation-supervision](calendly link). As above, I'd be grateful if you could schedule a year's work of supervisions in advance. These can always be re-scheduled if you need to, and helps to protect that time as the year gets increasingly busy. It's up to you to choose meeting dates, so you can space these based on your own work plan, particularly if you want to emphasise working in S1 or S1. But please, once per month at a maximum. And do think about pacing yourself well for this big project!
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+For academic year 2020-21, you cannot send me written work after 19 April, and so our last supervision needs to be scheduled before May 1. So you might want to set up an introductory meeting in October, with subsequent supervisions in November, January, February and April. You can adjust as you like, this is just an example of how things might be set up in practice.
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 3. What kind of supervisor am I?
 
 Of all the work you'll complete during your degree programme, the dissertation is the piece of work which you have the most ownership over. On the basis of this, I approach supervisions as a kind of coaching - I will be ready to answer any questions you have that have arisen during your research and writing, whether about writing mechanics, the research process, or about your topic more specifically. I will also raise probing questions for you, drawing on examples from written work I have been able to review in order to highlight problems or issues more broadly for you as a writer. I will not provide a proofreading service (you should recruit a good friend or two to help with this), so you should always bear in mind that mark-up and feedback is not comprehensive, but suggestive. I'll usually mark the first few instances of an issue in the writing, leaving you to examine the remainder for repeated instances. So you shouldn't expect that anything I *haven't* highlighted or added remarks to on one of your drafts is perfect and shouldn't be revised. I expect you to take notes from our discussions and then review your work to find all the areas where my feedback may be relevant.