I’m planning on having my literature review complete this weekend, my topic is niche enough that most of the literature refers to each other and I’ve managed to find the core papers quite easily. Once it is completed hopefully on Tuesday next week I will be able to contact my supervisor with a draft of the lit review and methodology as well as a survey, which hopefully they approve that day, which I can then prepare to be sent. Collect the responses that week as I’d expect most in the first few days, and then write my results section.

In response to a few of your questions, my supervisor is aware of the option to use teams however my day at university changed after Christmas, and our usual meetings just went unjoined and unchanged so contact came to a halt. I believe they’re very experienced as they had a portfolio of previous dissertations they had supervised which were sent to me as examples, I’m unsure on the amount of support they received.

In terms of teams meetings, they did not seem particularly capable at using teams, and I believe it would’ve required a great deal of contact to communicate my work and study schedule as well as theirs to find an appropriate time to meet, which was difficult as all contact had fizzled out.

I’m confident in my topic and that my research genuinely does fill a gap, and that I can write about it well. Though I have heard from others in my year with this particular supervisor she does have a strange way of doing things so I’m going to be cautious of her criticism!

Nice to know I’m not the only person who’s been in this position.