Hi,

My personal choice in order of pref would be: Manc, SOAS, Sussex then East Anglia. Partly because of the costs of living in London...

Mine seem to be getting all Stalinist about handing in four years. Supposedly ESRC have been taking a close interest in the department's completion rates...

Hey,

I suppose it all depends on whether you believe ethnography to be a method or a methodology. If you think ethnography is a method, three months is fine. Whereas if you think ethnography is a methodology, I guess the 'participant-as-observer' / 'observer-as-participant' should ideally be at least nine months; and some people use terms like 'ethnographically-informed' if they think ethnography is a methodology and they do not manage nine months.

There is also whether you are interested in one or multi-sites to consider.

If you are interested in policy / procedures I guess you have already come across Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis by Dvora Yanow; she also has a book out on organisational ethnography.

Hope this helps.

Hi,

I'm not sure what to say, other than I think everyone goes through this.

No magic insights, but lots of other people seem to pull everything together in the end.

Hope this helps...

Hi,

I wouldn't be too keen on contacting a business through the internet unless. I managed to find someone with a PhD from a reputable university who does this on a professional basis through LinkedIn.

Hi,

You might already be eligible now for a PhD programme - This, of course, all depends on where you apply to.

Are you willing / able to fund the full cost of a PhD programme without funding?

Is the new Masters' you are about to be begin ESRC accredited? Such Masters' cover research methdodology in depth and are in many instances seen as a good basis for a PhD programme. Some universities which offer these Masters' (eg. Warwick, Manchester and Lancaster) are likely to offer the better students full PhD scholarships.

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Do you mean for 'impact'?

There is a letter is last week's THES (http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=419632§ioncode=26) and a reply in this week's that (http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=419691&c=2) you might be interested in.

Someone wrote into say a friend's formula was cited in The Big Bang Theory and this must count as 'impact'. The reply states that this would only be regarded as 'impact' if they were able to predict at the begining that the formula would be cited in The Big Bang Theory...

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Hi,

University Campus Suffolk, although owned by, is a different institution from the University of East Anglia and the University of Essex. This might seem crass but a PhD from University Campus Suffolk might not be seen as being of the same 'worth' of a PhD from the University of East Anglia or the University of Essex.

Management learning at Lancaster University seems to be held in high regard as it was the first department of its kind and founded the journal of the same name.

As you are looking to study in a Business / Management School it might be best to use the FT rankings as a guide: http://www.ft.com/businesseducation/mba This ranks Lancaster University quite high. It also ranks The University of Manchester (not Manchester Metropolitan University) highly.

If you wanted more information - PM me.

I found Rowena Murray's Writing for Academic Journals a great help.

Stirling offer a PhD by publication...

Hi,

Rather than looking to change disciplines specifically have you looked into something more inter-disciplinary where there would be a major cross-over with your undergraduate? Science and Technology Studies while neither philosophy nor psychology as such certainly draws on both of these disciplines.

Have you seen David Harvey's Reading Capital lectures? He's posted them online: http://davidharvey.org/

Hi,

I would guess any thing by Norman Fairclough would be a useful place to start:

http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/263

Fairclough's New Labour, New Language? might be of interest.

Hi,

Is he a member of UCU by any chance? It might be worth getting in contact with them either way.

Congrats!