Yes I've referenced later chapters in earlier ones and vice versa.

It depends on what the content is for what format I write, so if it's very general I will say 'Chapter x' such as 'growing plants is discussed in chapter x', whereas if it's something specific I will say 'this plant did not grow in the dark (section 5.2.5.1)' etc.

In my results chapters when I refer to the methods I just say 'section 2.1.1', rather than 'chapter 2, section 2.1.1'

Glad it wasn't just me Chococake!

That's all you can do in my opinion. If your all chapters interrelate in a small way that's what you would have to do any way right? That's what I've done and my supervisors say it's fine.

Um, not sure any of us on here are qualified to answer that! There's a lot of possibilities there!

I doubt the UK is going to leave the EU anyway so I wouldn't worry about that.

Also, if you get funding for a project, I expect it will continue; leaving the EU would only affect new applicants.

Oh ok, it's probably higher in biomedical sciences. I've seen biology RA jobs advertised from £22k but going up to £30k occasionally.

Yeah I think it depends on how supportive they are. This is difficult to gauge in an interview though as obviously they are just going to say they are supportive, so unless you can speak to other researchers in the lab it's difficult to know for sure.

I don't know anyone doing this but I imagine the difficulties will be defining your research contribution when you are assisting with other people's work. Also depends on whether they let you participate in training conferences etc and whether they let you write up during the working day or if this needs to be done in the evenings.

I guess the pay works out about £200-400 pm more than a PhD stipend considering you would be on a salary of £22-25k (?) and paying income tax, council tax and NIC.

Yeah I agree to be honest. I identify as English way more than British, but I just used British as if it was synonym for English. I don't know if that's the right thing to do or not.

Done, I found it a bit confusing at first on the 'fuzzy' section about British people though. I understood it when I came on to the questions again about other groups of people

Honestly, I would give it up and move on. You can't do anything about it now. You don't know, and will never know, whether this affected your PhD chances so there's really no point in wasting time thinking about it.

I get it thxht. I think I would feel the same as you if they told me to rehash my thesis.

I would moan about it for a few days but then I would do it because there is no choice.

A lot of people do seem to be commenting on this recently. Don't suppose you have a UK address you can 'borrow' for applications?

Can't really help, I'm biology. What does your supervisor want to you to do? What's your research question?

What is your PhD on?