Dissertation while travelling or moving around?

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Hi,

I'm off to UEA, Exeter, or Cardiff for PG this fall. Doing a program in sustainable dev. or int dev and environ. The dissertation period begins in Spring 2012. I was just wondering if it was possible to work, travel, and/or do the dissertation in a different country? Seems like a lot of reading and writing that could be done anywhere.

Thanks

[far_to_go]

I'm in Anthropology, but I know that a lot of students in my program do their dissertation write-up while living elsewhere (sometimes in different countries). I would bet it really depends on your own program and various personal factors, though.

[StrangeLight]

there's a few too many abbreviations in your post to have any real idea of what program you're doing and where, but...

once you have amassed all of the data you need, you can write from pretty much anywhere. if you're on a fellowship that doesn't require you to be "in residence" at a university, you can truly live and work from anywhere you want to. if your fellowship requires that you actually be at the university you're attending, or if you're being paid with TA or RA work, then you'll actually still have to stay in the location of your school.

not to make this thread about me, but i recently won a multi-year fellowship that will allow me to live anywhere i want to (on a tight salary) for two years of dissertation writing. i was thrilled and relieved to win the fellowship not necessarily because of the money (my own school had promised me TA positions for those years) but for the freedom to move, travel, and focus on nothing other than the dissertation. it's pretty sweet.

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Thanks for the replies. I will be doing a MSC Environment and Development at the Uni of East Anglia this fall and writing my dissertation next spring/summer. I will be actively seeking an internship or hopefully, some paid work, while writing. Of course the job must be applicable to my career. However, if I can't do that, I think I'd like to get a cabin on a lake in Croatia or something for the summer to write .