Thanks guys I really appreciate your response!

I do get on really well with my supervisor, this is probably one of the reasons he's offered me the position before even interviewing anyone else. He knows his stuff when it comes to this area of research and has plenty of publications to his name. I'm also hoping that having a year abroad in a different academic institution will help to as it will mean I still have 2 academic supervisors!

This is the only PhD project I've seen so far that has REALLY appealed to me, I've found other titles interesting, but this would also tie in nicely with work I've done here too.........

Thanks again! :-)

Hey folks, would appreciate your thoughts on this matter.

I've been offered a fully funded PhD which looks really interesting......However, it is with my Undergraduate tutor. I like and respect the guy very much so this isn't an issue at all, but how is it going to affect my academic career? Is it frowned upon to stay with the same supervisor and institution?

I'm currently on a Year abroad programme, with VERY little chance of me being able to come back and meet any other prospective supervisors. If I get accepted anywhere else then I'm gonna have to go in blind and hope I get on with them.

Any advice? Thanks for reading!

Liz


BACKGROUND: Probably should have put this at the top, I study Astrophysics at the University of Southampton and am currently at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, I have also applied to Cambridge, UCL and Imperial. Southampton is pretty well respected in the High Energy Astrophysics "world" or certainly appears to be. If you want to know anymore just let me know :)