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Miranda Irving

August 2015

  • Miranda Irving, who took 30 years to gain her PhD. Photograph by Felix Clay Commissioned for Education

    ‘How I finished my PhD … just 30 years after I began’

    After decades of shame as a ‘non-completer’, Miranda Irving went back to her doctorate. It took another seven years, but she made it

October 2007

  • Crib sheet

    Barbie takes up the baton | Is your MP as fit as mine? | Academian rhapsody

July 2006

  • Unfinished business

    More than a third of doctoral students never complete their PhD. What can be done to help, asks Miranda Irving.

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