Your MSc dissertation will give you an idea of what research in a PhD is like - there will likely be more dead ends, exhaustion and admin! Well worth it though.

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If you're at a loose end, fancy helping write mine?! Seriously though, congratulations!

Swim

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Woah, does that look weird to everyone else too? I guess that happened because I put the end quote phrase there as an example without the start quote phrase...

Yep, I also put my text at the very bottom, after [/quote] and it still included it in the quote. Hence I had to put it on the top. Don't worry, I bet the admins are stalking this thread and are already on it, right guys?

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I'm not a tailor.


Luckily, I do have good taste in coats. ;-)

Get reading!

1. Yep, though obviously it is more competitive with the better institutions/supervisors/funding bodies.

2. If you're worried then get a couple of opinions?

3. Since a PhD is mostly your own work, then the biggest factor in getting something to suit is getting the supervisor bit right. But think about resource availability in your area, copyright or big library etc? Training and support networks.

4. It might be more difficult, but its certainly possible. Depending on your field and future institution, there might be some travel, hardship or subsistence funds available.

5. I'm not a historian but I have heard York, Hull, Cambridge are all good. Depends on your research focus though I suppose. Look up the institutions of the people who right all your undergraduate books!

Yep, write as you go along. If I was presenting work at a supervision, I'd write it as a report (I'm in the sciences) - e.g. intro, methods, results, discussion. A lot of it will be ditched in the end, but if you copy and paste all these reports into chapters then you have a really good start. Official write up time for me after this has/is going to be 4-5 months.

Nice one 8-)

Moral of this thread - anyone can achieve anything with hard work and a bit of luck ;-) There ya go, I hope that ends it on a happy note :-)

Yeah, sounds like she could give you some guidance. Its worth sticking at for the one time it will actually tentatively come together...

I tick most of the widening participation boxes, and here I am about to submit my funded PhD. And class has never really been an issue - the richest people you'll meet are self-funded intertnational students. Seriously, class will be the last thing to worry about with the workload they'll throw at you!