PhD students could get twelve month write up period
College already on board
It is likely that PhD students will be getting their writeup period extended to twelve months for all Departments, it emerged on Tuesday 12 February.
Imperial College Union Council passed a paper that resolved to discuss the idea with key stakeholders and to lobby College. It was mentioned in Council that College are already for the idea, and so it seems unlikely to not work.
Currently, not all students get twelve months to write up their PhD after they complete their experiments. Some get six months, after which they lose access to College and the journal subscriptions. This is annoying for students and is why it is possibly changing.
