Deliverable: Plan and Context Survey

This deliverable consists of a very early draft of your dissertation, as a single PDF document. This should include three elements:

• Table of contents with all the chapter and section headings. These will form the skeleton of your dissertation and ensure that it is properly structured;
• Largely complete review of related work (literature review). This is normally 5-10 pages long and will include citations to most important papers on this topic and explain how they relate to the task;
• Work plan for the rest of your dissertation period (week-by-week) indicating the main tasks and objectives you will need to tackle and when you will be doing this. This is usually in the form of a table, a Gantt chart, or similar.

Submission of the plan and context survey by the advertised deadline is a compulsory module element.

This is only required as a formal deliverable for 5000-level modules. Nonetheless a context survey of appropriate scope is also expected in the final report for 4000-level modules, so it is a good idea to draft a survey early in the project.