Doing a Ph.D. without funding

L

Tere is anybody doing his/her Ph.D. without receiving any financial support by the university?
If you start a Ph.D. without funding, there is any possibility to find something after few months?

G

A university will want to see some concrete evidence of funding being in place. More so if you are not a UK national.


S

ditto Golfpro. You have to provide documentary evidence of funds being available.

L

I think doing a Ph.D. without funding is almost a folly!!!
After many years of study you should not pay to work!!!!If the University can not provide you any funding they should not offer you a position!!!

D

I'm keeping all my options open not been too reliant but if you get a job at the uni surely that can help?

S

I wasn't asked to prove anything

HA HA HA if they'd seen my bank account they would have thought twice about that offer

Luigi - not all areas of research are well funded so there simply isn't the money available to fund every PhD student.

P

Same as sixkitten, they'd never have let me through the door, if they'd seen my bank statements - simply laughed. I am 1/2 way through and it's a constant struggle with the fees & to be honest I don't really know how/ if I will be able to pay my way through from one day to the next.
The money I earn from teaching only covers my living expenses and the money I earn from freelance work, always takes ages to come through - anything up to 60 days from invoice & even then I sometimes have to chase it - so it's really unstable.
I had no choice though. other than self funding.
I am one of those people who is stuck somewhere between the AHRC & ESRC. I applied to the open ESRC competition and although I scored reasonabley & my supervisors got an amazing score - they still turned me down & I found out that this year the ESRC awared a grant to only 1 ( yes thats a big fat one) person in my subject area out of nearly 4000 applicants.

D

Are you part or full time?

P

moi? FT although I spend 4-6 hours teaching a week + additional 2-5 hours preping or marking & then about 1-2 days a week on my freelance marketing/ events & the odd magazine article here and there.

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