This will depend on things like who funded you and what your university's rules are on PhD students and intellectual property rights. Your oiginal contract / letter of appointment / funding terms and conditions should say something. Similarly try looking at your university / faculty research office website for the rules on intellectual property. Someone in that office should be able to advise you if things remain unclear.

First tip I have is to make sure you have read any guidance on the funding body's website / documentation really thoroughly. There are often little things that they want including, or won't fund, that it's easy to miss. I gather you're applying for funding to cover fieldwork - if so I'd make sure that your application makes it clear what the rationale for the fieldwork is, how it will assist in answering your main research question, show awareness of any ethical issues you will encounter so perhaps rather than summarising your entire project, forefront what you're asking them to fund (obviously don't do this if there are instructions to the contrary). I have usually not included references when it's been a short statement unless they were specifically asked for. If your research is anywhere considered risky you might need to include some risk assessment statement. On expenses check what they will and will not fund; assume economy flights and cheap accommodation are what will be funded in your costings; you might want to include an amount for day-to-day subsistence; and think about whether you will need translation assistance, a guide or anything similar. Final suggestion is to run the draft application past your supervisor s/he may have some helpful suggestions.

Does your university's maths or statistics courses run any relevant modules? Perhaps you could sit in on the classes as I suspect your chances of finding a tutor at that level, who is specialised in precisely what you need might be rather small. You might also find that such a department might be able to point you in the direction of useful online help. I imagine you've already done this with no success but if your supervisor can't help (I'm assuming they know you're struggling), have you investigated adding someone who is strong in stats onto your supervisory team?

Hi Human,

Someone is not being very honest with you. The EU does not fund lectureships or teaching (with two very small exceptions - it offers some extremely limited funding for the teaching of European integration modules (so in politics, economics and law) and it does offer funding for Erasmus Mundus, which is mainly Masters courses offered jointly by a consortium of EU and non-EU universities). This would have no bearing on anyone employing you as they don't fund posts but rather enable courses and modules to go ahead where the costs of working with other international partners might have made it impossible.
It does fund some research - the European Research Council is probably the most prestigious form of funding http://erc.europa.eu/funding-schemes - if you have a look at the early career grants scheme for example, you will see researchers of any nationality can apply. If there is an EU office at your university, their website will probably have an easy to follow guide to all of the various schemes but as a big aim is to improve international mobility of researchers, they really are pretty open as far as nationality is concerned. The only thing I can think of is Marie Curie funding, where I think you'd be eligible but just not to stay in the UK - like any British-based researcher, you'd have to apply to go elsewhere in the EU.
Is it possible that these people are trying to tell you gently that you need a plan B and cannot rely on finding an academic job in the UK? If so, I think they should just tell you the truth. The academic jobs market is really horrendously overcrowded with well-qualified people and so pretty much everyone needs a back-up plan.

Why on earth do you think academic jobs in the UK are EU only, when a quick glance through the staff lists anywhere will quickly reveal that this is not the case? Nearly half my department are non-EU citizens. British academics in fact often feel it's a bit unfair how open the academic job market is here, when this openness is not reciprocated in most other countries! If you have a PhD and excellent publications (as understood by the REF definitions of excellent so basically in good journals) then you stand as good a chance as anyone else (particularly in your case they don't even have to worry about a work permit). However, you need to understand that it is an extremely competitive academic job market with many extremely well-qualified job candidates - it will be a case of whether your application is strong enough, not whether you possess an EU passport or not.

The other thing to consider is what you want to do afterwards. I do know someone who submitted at 2 3/4 years against what proved to be the better judgement of his supervisor (not a good tale as he then got 12 months major corrections), but did this by attending no conferences, publishing nothing and teaching nothing. Even if it had gone as he'd hoped i.e. no corrections, he would have been very uncompetitive for any academic jobs.

Whether you are wasting your time or not depends on your motivation for doing the PhD - if it's only to try and gain academic employment then you do need to have a long hard look at how many jobs there are in your field versus how many PhD students and see whether it looks realistic or not. If as I suspect you are in Mod Lang (username) then I think you do need to be very very hard-headed about this as given falling undergraduate applications. If on the other hand the project is something that fascinates you and you feel that however things turn out job-wise that you won't regret doing the PhD then no you're not wasting your time (even if others think you're crazy). On the teaching hours, you're right teaching experience does matter increasingly especially in humanities and social science. Have you sent your cv to nearby universities, who offer courses that you could teach, asking to be considered for any hourly paid teaching they have available? It's worth a try plus if you are in mod lang, it's worth trying continuing eductation programmes as they often offer language classes.

One thing to be aware of depending on your field, is that if your supervisor(s) do fieldwork / archival work, that may involve lengthy absences over the summer as that's the only time they can do it. But otherwise as everyone else has said they should be around. Sadly, the lengthy summer break is only for undergrads.

I wouldn't chase book reviews given you've done some already - if you have too many compared to actual publications, then you risk giving the impression that you don't understand what counts and doesn't count for much.

Bottom of the pile alongside encyclopedia entries in social sciences at any rate - it's worth keeping on your cv as it shows that you are reasonably networked within the profession, but separate them from your proper publications. The only exception to this is for review essays that review a set of books on the same topic and are much lengthier. I would assume it's the same for humanities. Basically if it's not REF-able it doesn't count for anything much.

If this has been listed as a correction in your thesis, then could you ask your internal examiner to be more precise about exactly what they want you to change and what analysis they want instead? If it's been phrased at all vaguely, it would strike me as a very legitimate question to ask. That might give you something more concrete to go looking for help with at the places LindaLou suggested.

If they aren't doing the reading you could try some sort of entry ticket system. You might ask them to write down the 3 key arguments from each reading - if they don't produce it, then they can't stay in the seminar (emphasise the unfairness of them free-riding on more conscientous students). You could then make your first group activity to compare their answers and come up with a joint three to report back to the whole group. Whoever thought two hour seminars for undergrads was a good idea was mad but I think the key is to plan plenty of short activities to break up the time and keep them concentrated. If you have the technology, short relevant youTube films can be useful to do this. Don't set your face completely against lecturing - a ten minute talk in the middle might not be a bad idea (particularly if they are off track and you need to reorient them) and you need to sum up the session at the end. You also probably need to give them a 5 minute break in the middle. Basically, variety in my experience is best - I teach politics and we use role-playing simulations quite a bit for longer sessions - it tends to go down well but might be impossible in your discipline.
The other thing that it might be a good idea to do is to ask your supervisor, who in the dept is the known brilliant small group teacher and see if you could observe one of his/her sessions. I learnt a lot that way. A google search for small group teaching and your subject area will also probably generate useful ideas. Hope this helps a bit.