Thursday 11 December 2008

Supervision meeting

Supervision Meeting for Nothando Ngwenya on the 11th of December 2008 at 11:30am in Paul’s Office.

Present: NN, SM, and PK

1) We discussed the outcome and feedback from the RDC2 MPhil to PhD upgrade which included the following:
a. Include references in the literature review and also include in depth research into palliative care
b. Amend the document to include the revised sample and sample size after ethical approval – (including the online sample)
c. The document to be revised to include current stage, timescale of the project and plans for writing up and submission.
d. Review the aims and objectives of the project in light of the revisions and changes made to the studies. Instead of developing ‘policy recommendations’, the project is most likely to develop ‘recommendations’ for practice rather than for policy.

2) NN to work on the changes and submit before Christmas break. The PhD has a conditional transfer and confirmation of the transfer will be given by the Chair of the transfer after successful completion of the conditions.
3) We had a discussion on the Austria conference and possible collaborations and publications.
4) We discussed the recruitment stage for the hospice participants and the interviews on the response rate from the hospice CEOs. End of the recruitment phase will be on Monday the 15th of December 2008 in …….. The last interview for the response rate will be on the 23rd of December with Dr …….



Things to do by next meeting

1) NN to submit the methodology Chapter