Hi everybody.

I am writing to search some advices, or at least some wise words concerning my situation and my future.
As a matter of a fact, I am actually in (my second) Master (political sciences), and come from a very (I would like to underline this word) interdisciplinary background in social sciences : anthropology, languages (rares), history, politics... and I feel a bit lost just now.

I would like to do a PhD, not only because it's convenient and that I cannot have a job ( ;-) ), but because I am interested in research. The fact is that I can't figure 1. a topic, and 2. (worse) a specialization : as you may have guessed through my interest for interdisciplinary disciplines, I have not switched because I was unable to stay in one or another, but because I found it interesting to learn new (cross-disciplinary) things, and I have some difficulties to figure how to be happy by being too much "specialized" (it's not and offense toward the "specialized" persons. It is just how I feel for my own case), and how to "assemble" that and make it a strengh rather than a weakness (one of the problems of an interdisciplinary education, on my own opinion, is that you may perceive some limits of one discipline, limits which are "normality" for an other, but itself limited, etc. etc.).

Living in Europe (working languages : French and English, speaking more than those 2), the possibilities of an interdisciplinary PhD are quite limited to the best of my knowledge (and las months of research), at least in social sciences, and the scholarships (no scholarships, no PhD, as simple as that) are even more rare with the crisis (for eg. the soc. sciences dept. of the Uni Maastricht, NL, does not even offers one this year), so I really don't know where to address, and what to do, in the several acceptations of those words....

I you have any advices or thoughts, that'll be really kind of you,

Regards,

iMe.