Where are you, H?

Well Jen, if Brown gets in then we'll find out!

I used to be Conservative, but now that Cameron is in charge, I've joined UKIP.

No offence taken - is a very good idea, although one that I've already done quite a bit of!

I know that this site offers several suggestions for books on PhDs, in terms of how to approach them, what they involve etc etc, but does anyone have any recommendations? The two I've thought best (merrely according to reviews) are "Your PhD Companion" by Stephen Marshall, and "The Unwritten Rules of PhD Research" by Rugg and Petre.

Anyone have any comments on these, or other books?

Ta!

Haha - although I'm not the marrying type. Unless you have kids, it's a pretty outdated Christian institution, and I'm a devout atheist. So ner ner :p

I'm in Pharmacology on M Floor. For two and half months more. So did you do a degree in Sheffield?

Hmmm - 20 minutes after accepting the offer, I got a call from another potential supervisor, asking if I was still interested in his PhD. Bloody awful timing! I said no though...

So which department are you in Gizmo?

I applied to Nottingham and got an interview in Biomedical Sciences (Phys and Pharm) but obviously won't be going to that now...

Sheffield, same place as I did my undergrad degree, and also where I've been working as a research technician for the past year (as, by the period of applying for PhDs in my final year, I wasn't 100% sure I wanted to do full time research). Great place. Where are you lot?

Well thanks for the replies - I phoned the potential supervisor to check with him about what he does. He said that both supervisors meet with their student formally once a month, where a record of the meeting is taken and filed with the university. However, he usually sees his students most days to check how things are, which suits me just fine. And now I've accepted. Wahey!

it's a PhD in neuropharmacology/neurophysiology, if that helps...

I've just been offered a PhD, but want to check something with the supervisor - how often he meets his students, and whether it's regular or just as and when necessary. Can people reading this let me know how often they meet their supervisors, and how they arrange it, just so I know what to compare his answer to?

Thanks!

Oh, and it's not helped by the fac that I have pretty long-standing depression, which makes me worry about whether I'd be able to complete the PhD if I find one...

I'm beginning to lose hope with looking for PhDs. All I really want is something that I'm interested in and which, ideally, is in the north or midlands. I've got a place at quite a prestigious centre in Bristol, but it's both an area with which I'm pretty unfamiliar, and a long way away, and so I'm probably going to turn it down. The problem is that I like quite a few areas, but none stand out, which can make decisions quite hard. I know I really want to do a PhD, but I'm getting pretty cheesed off with things.