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NW Employers' Needs and Expectations of Postgraduates: Dissemination Report Fiona Cushlow & Hayley Morris, 2000 DFEE/HEQE.

"Two of my students are within weeks of submitting their doctorates. It is tough to configure the right mix of compassionate support and needling motivation to ensure that the exhaustion, fear and worry are not incapacitating. All supervisors know that these final few weeks - to use estate-agent speak - will close the deal. If students suffer a metaphoric brain explosion and become so overwhelmed with stress that they cannot complete the necessary editing, a thesis that should have sailed through examination becomes mired in major corrections."

What do we expect from a PhD in Human Computer Interaction? This brief paper summarises a range of possible responses to this question. The final section goes on to argue that alternative means of assessment must be considered if we are to apply the multi-disciplinary criteria that many people use to define a PhD in HCI.