Answer by R1NaNo for Finding a PhD supervisor as an experienced professional...
Your situation does indeed sound frustrating, because from your end, it is the ideal scenario. You want to work for free, and you already bring in a set of experiences and a useful background, so why...
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The alarm bells for me at least would be your self funding. You need to expand on this in your contact emails.How exactly is this going to work, will you have a full time job alongside a full time PhD?...
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As someone that walked away from my PhD despite getting funding from EPSRC and doing the full 3 years, I would like to highlight some alarm bells here. I chose not to submit my thesis.I have to explain...
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Here’s how I did it—though I was (and am) in the US and was already enrolled at the university. I just started taking a fairly broad range of courses that would help me eventually pass the qualifying...
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I am an experienced professional, I've got a good level of academic knowledge and commercial experience, an undergrad from the top university in the country and I am looking to self finance a PhD - in...
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In the UK, a very large portion of PhDs (particularly externally funded ones) are on a reasonably strict schedule, and must be externally advertised and filled through a (semi-)formal recruitment...
View ArticleAnswer by Daniel Hatton for Finding a PhD supervisor as an experienced...
Further to @Cheery's sound advice: In the UK, academics who do have places available for PhD students often publicly advertise the fact. One common location for such advertisements is...
View ArticleAnswer by Cheery for Finding a PhD supervisor as an experienced professional...
I know that academia sometimes resembles a closed union shop: you need to be a union member to get a job, but you can only get membership in the union through having a job in the first place.What you...
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I am looking to apply for a PhD position at a UK university but I desperately feel I am in a catch 22 situation. What I've read online, is that supervisors are very busy and receive many such emails so...
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