I’ve been asked a few times recently about the text that accompanies published papers for the PhD by publication. So who am I to refuse?

This is a slide show that I use to raise some key questions that people doing a PhD by publication need to consider. This is necessarily a brief overview.

I do not cover the different rules that apply to PhD by publication in different countries, nor the different processes of examination. Nor do I talk about the processes of putting papers into journals and how that might make things tricky for PhDers. The slide show focuses on broad questions of writing the actual additional text.