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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jacqui and I are planning the PH450 vivas.  We need your help!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">More importantly we need you to let us know when you are available between 21<sup>st</sup> April and 23<sup>rd</sup> May.
<b>Please can you let us know before 31<sup>st</sup> March?</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jacqui and I have collated information from students (exams and other extraordinary circumstances) and hope that you will be able to help us to find dates that fit with your own plans and that of the other members of the same panel.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The dates proposed in our first draft (attached) and are based on student availability. You can also look at the draft file via the path link I:\Physics\project\2024-2025_PH450\PH450_Vivas_April_25\20250326_Draft_PH450_ Vivas.xlsx
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>How to feed back to us:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please look at your panel assignments.  <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Your name may appear up to four times in the attached document (I recommend that you use the filters at the top of the columns to arrange them by name)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After reviewing the panels and the student’s availability, please let us and the other panel members know when you are available.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We will then help the panel to find the most suitable date and time for the viva and communicate it to the student.
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<p class="MsoNormal">We will be using Outlook calendar appointments to keep a track of all the vivas.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please can you help us by completing this 10 minute task by 31sth March?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Helen <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Thank you to those supervisors that found my well-hidden request for information about availability for vivas and sent it through to us. We know that you will now have a better idea of your calendars, conferences, travel plans, appointments.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Helen L Vaughan
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