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Start your Open and Networked PhD by declaring your candidacy

This challenge is your first stage in an Open and Networked PhD (ONPhD) - establishing your candidacy.

You will be listing past research projects and publications - or equivalent; writing a plan that demonstrates your understanding of the ONPhD approach, and outlining the intended research project/s. Your plan will also contain ready offers of supervision and mentorship from experienced researchers, and evidence of a preparedness to follow ethical boundaries in the research work.

On successful completion of this challenge, you will be deemed an OnPhD Candidate at the Peer to Peer University, and Wikiversity.

P Time it should take to complete:
60 hrs

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Detail your contribution [Jan. 2, 2013, 3:10 p.m.]

Detail your ideas around a significant contribution. (remember this can be altered as your knowledge of the domain of study deepens, it is an iterative process)
How are you going to publish?
Where will you engage your network of peers and mentors?
How is your work going to be peer reviewed?
How are your findings and data going to be published in the open?
Describe how you know you are finished.

Add to your portfolio site the artifacts that show your completion of the above tasks. Provide a link to this in this tasks discussion thread.

Open & Networked PhD Candidacy

Detail your contribution [Jan. 2, 2013, 3:10 p.m.]