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Kirsten G

1 reviews | Active since Sept 2021

25 Feb 2026, 09:03

Research Proposal

Good day, sometime last week or the week before that I wrote a review about MANCOSA and their turnaround time.

In that review I also made mention of the deadlines they’ve give me to submit my research proposal even though I was allocated my supervisor and coordinator late. After I left my review they reached out to me and not long after that, I was given my ethical approval from the ethics committee meaning I could now start with full data collection for my proposal interviews etc.

Diana Dalais called me after my first review on hello Peter and i made mentioned that my supervisor and I have been working on my proposal since last year. I’ve submitted my draft proposal and made various changes as requested and so forth and I was given instruction to do my data which was to work on my chapters 1-3 in the interim.

I did not proceed to do my interviews and actual data collection besides chapter 1-3 which is still a work in progress.

Diana sends me the following mail and now I am being told to change my study and submit by the 20th of March, for data collection that I didn’t do. The only data collection was my chapters 1-3.

Make it make sense

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Mancosa
Mancosa's reply25 Feb 2026, 10:33
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Hi Kirsten,

Thank you for reaching out. We’re truly sorry to hear about your experience and apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Please be assured that your concern has been escalated to the relevant department. A MANCOSA representative will be in touch with you shortly to assist further.
  Kind regards,
MANCOSA Team 

Best regards,