I should know by early September. I'm waiting to hear back on Monday from one of the faculty administrators about how many awards they have going...Sorry to hear about your experience of scholarship lists Mellory....urgh...I get the distinct feeling the same will happen to me...position thirteen just doesn't feel that good....Anyway, I'm working on recapturing the anticipation I felt a few days ago at the prospect of starting my PhD part-time....

Good luck to anybody awaiting funding news....

Yay! So good things can be associated with the number thirteen! lol

I got a letter from my university yesterday: I'm place number 13 on a list for studentships awards in September based on AHRC outcomes: they'll know for sure when all the AHRC results come back. I did some digging on the net and last year the School awarded 16 studentships and teaching assistantships......I really, really hope that they have thirteen of these studentships this year! I know I shouldn't dare to dream...but after rejection from the AHRC this is my last best hope for full time study. Has anybody else faced the trauma of the studentship waiting list before?

Lilly...For the past month I have pounced on the various post-people that have come to the door, raced downstairs and eventually on the day (because I have moved) it was my ex-boyfriend who brought the letter around. Which was nice of him.

Anyway, I have been pleasantly suprised by the ease at which my uni has allowed me to transfer to part-time!

Good luck with your AHRC app! As for age........yeah, will be more chilled out about it....I was moaning on the phone to parents about my lack of a pension plan/scheme. I was told to get a grip. That put my in my place! lol

Thanks for all your comments guys!

You did(are doing) a PhD in Museology/History of Science...what is your subject area?

I know 28 isn't old....just feels that way sometimes!lol

Once I've started in the autumn I'll work towards getting a more relevant job and that way at least I'll get decent career experience whilst studying...

Thank you. I had a peek and will monitor it regularly for studentships in my field. But since my field is very small (Museology/History of Science)and my supervisor is pretty much the bees knees in the area I want to do, I'm pretty much resolved on my chosen institution. If I want this bad enough, I'll just do it....and I will.

*sobs*

My application for a PhD grant got the following grade: '4: good application, priority for funding'. To get funding I needed to be number 1. Sigh. I always knew it was a long shot, what with 3 out of 4 people being told 'computer says no'...Still I can always apply again next year.

So now, I'll be doing it part-time and will start in September. This will take 5 years. So I'll be 28 when I finish. What am I doing?! I must be mad! I'm going to be sacrificing financial solvency, respectability and lifestyle for stuffed animals and menageries in seventeenth and eighteenth century Britain! Somebody shake me into sanity, please....

God....I'll have zero social life, a negative bank balance and men won't be wanting to touch this poor-geek with a bargepole....

Yet, despite all this...I still want to do it. Wish this poor fool luck...

I hope the pain meds work.

You're so right Ann. I have a mouthful of fillings and most of these aren't needed! I also had two molars removed to make way for the brace brackets....but as my doctor said as she wrote out the prescription for the Carbamzepine 'your teeth are so lovely and straight'. So I suppose in a pain/pleasure way it may have been worth it! Well maybe a little. I just feel for those who never manage to get rid of their Trigeminal Neuralgia.

Hey!

I wore braces for five years and once they were removed started to suffer unbearable pain in the left hand side of my face which would come and go. I kept going to dentists and doctors both NHS and private and they kept going 'you need fillings' and 'you're stressed'. I coped as best as I could for about two years (even doing my 3rd year finals whilst in tears because my face hurt so much: a sharp stinging/burning sensation that would build up until I would cry and yell in pain and then it would stop, and come back a few seconds/minutes/hours or days later) until whilst doing my MA it hurt so much I spent an entire weekend without sleep and had to stay in the dark, not eat or speak because it hurt so much. I staggered into Manchester A & E and was diagnosed with Trigeminal Neuralgia (a nerve on the left hand side of my face had undergone trauma whilst wearing braces) and got the meds I needed. So if any of you have chronic tooth pain....don't forget there can be non-dental causes of it! Hope you got the dental help you needed.

lol!

It has been several months since I have been accepted onto my PhD for septewmber, and there is still three months until I enrol. So when my supervisor-to-be emailed me a review he had written to comment upon I 'came over all fuzzy and postgraduate' and eagerly wrote one. I can't wait until september.... :-)

Bodies Without Organs 'Riding Through The Night'. It is great.

Thanks for all your replies!

*vomits into waste paper bin* I suppose it is something every phd student has to get over....