As the title says. I am planning to take a year out after my BSc to have a second child. I would officialy graduate in July 2015 and will start to apply from September 2015 for 2016 start.
Do you think it will a problem? Will supervisors question my year out as I will not be at work?
Will they be less likely to choose me because I will have 2 children?
Thanks:)
They can't discriminate on the grounds of you having children.
There was a 21-year gap between my BSc and my PhD (not child-related) and I wasn't asked to account for all that time! As Huxley said, it's the quality of your application, your skills, how well your research ideas fit with the department and so on that they will consider.
I don't see any reason why this should be a barrier. The only thing they might enquire about (though I'm not sure if they can) is whether you would need any accommodations in terms of managing childcare.
It does really depend on your choice of project though. Something like cell biology where you need to tend to your experiments very frequently at particularly times might afford you less flexibility than an analysis based project. But that depends on your personal arrangements as to whether or not this would be a problem.
As much as anticipating what they might ask you, I would make sure I asked them plenty of questions too. I have no experience of this myself but I imagine that there is variation between departments/institutions as to how hard/easy it is to balance childcare and PhD work.
Thanks guys:)
I am in science so I supppose I am worried they will look at me like I am out of date.
Regards childcare, my husband is really supportive and is happy to stay home with kids when ill if he needs to. I mean I will also stay occasionaly but it will be shared.
But with the one we have now it isnt a problem really, not ill for about 2 years now!
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