Find it curious that you say we want you 'down the pits' and you have a cloth and coal lifestyle, whilst at the same time confirming out you have a comfortable position in FE and can afford to fund a PhD part time. Hardly a serf existence is it? Champage socialist springs to mind. As it happens I'm first generation to go to Uni in my family, from Middlesbrough, and fund wife and baby off the PhD scholarship (no subbing).

I will have to bow out of this now, however. Well done in your achievements to date, you have clearly achieved against the odds, something for the OP to consider. Best of luck.

Given, I would suggest, a fair few of the posters on this site are fully funded and not 'subbed' by anyone, I think you may have just alienated yourself, Onion. Not sure how your rant addresses the OP but I take your point.

As for the OP, if your a person wishing to enter academia, with no other outside income, self funding as a bad idea.

2/2 that doesn't mean he is right. Talk it through with your main supervisor.

Maybe it's uni specific but I thought it was up to you when to submit and they couldn't block it - as it's your work. And yes, what does your first supervisor say? The Prof is surely only trying to be helpful, but..1/2

Yes, and you'd be right. The more stats I've used in my thesis the more a disbelieve everything about statistics.

Finally, I should also add, (sorry, I can only write 2 line replies for some reason), you need to be super careful when reaching conclusions based on the p-value.

I use logistic regression in my thesis and I found something similar btw. I put it down to the variables generally being quite weak predictors, and the one that is not sig by itself is helped along by others.

1/2 but I guess you would report the result as being x variable becomes significant in the presence of the other predictor variables. You might then need to consider (qualitatively) why that would be the case?

Not an expert but...yes because variables can be weak by themselves but become significant in combination with others. Obv you'd been to be sure there's no collinearity which could invalidate your results 1/2

I personally would question doing the masters paper whilst juggling two (presumably PhD related?) studies? If it was me I would put that on ice a while until I've caught up my PhD.

Not a criminologist or psychologist, but it seems OK to me. You should find a potential supervisor and email them with your ideas. However, might be tricky to get hold of them at the moment.

I'm submitting on 1st October, but seems so close now. Waiting for feedback on my mock viva now :S

I'm fairly sure that when they say you need a first degree they are referring to the bachelors, not the classification. So apply away.

Thank you very much, I've sent you a PM :)

PS I say Aussies because I think most people with an Australian library card / Uni card have access to it?