You should maintain regular contact with your advisors and develop a plan to maintain progress, including a plan to work off campus if required. This may involve you discussing how to rescope or reorder your work if needed. Plan with your advisors how you will maintain contact, if off campus, and how you can receive feedback from your advisors. Zoom might be a helpful tool to use.
If your research has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, you and your advisors should discuss adjustments to your project, and any associated field work and data collection, so that you can continue to make progress. This will be a challenging process, that may significantly change your project. However, with continued restrictions as a result of the pandemic, and uncertainty about when they will be lifted or reinstated, it is important to plan ahead and be prepared.
Be flexible, and be kind to yourself during this process. This is challenging time. If you feel like you need additional support you can access a number of sessions through the CDF or an appointment with student services.
To help keep track of your progress and any difficulties you encounter, all HDR candidates are asked to complete monthly (previously fortnightly and changed to monthly from 20-7-20) Research Progress Reports. These are 1-2 pages and the template can be found online. These reports are designed to help you and your advisors review progress and any impacts and disadvantage you experience. You should upload these to your project record in the Research Data Management (RDM) and share it with your advisors. Follow the online instructions on how to set up and use the RDM. While the RDM is not mandatory, it is highly recommended, and you may be asked to provide an RDM link if you need to present your reports at any stage.
It is also important that you keep these records of your progress, and any challenges you face, to help us assist you later if other options or an extension need to be explored.