Hi Gidget,

I can TOTALLY identify with your dilemma!! I finished my MA in Film in 2006 and really wanted to do my PhD on a particular director but couldn't decide exactly why I wanted to do my PhD on her work. Anyway, I have spent the last 3 years working and continued to think about the PhD and this director and it has only been in the last month that the lightbulb has come on and I now have the beginnings of a unique research area and much more direction!!!

I contacted the university that I was interested in a week ago with a general question about the course and a sentence that summoned up my area of PhD interest and I am now going up to the university in Feb to meet two of the senior lecturers and current PhD students.

Basically what I'm trying to say is that the unique idea will come to you and you should stay positive. Can I ask what general area of research that you are hoping to pursue?

Hi!

I'm glad to have found this thread as the vast majority of the others are science etc!

I'm hoping to start a p/t PhD in October in film and cultural studies and I wanted to ask if anyone else started their PhD p/t and what kind of workload was expected from them in their first year?

Thanks!!!

Hi!!

I am hoping to do a part-time PhD in Canadian film at Birmingham Uni (as it is the only one that specialises in this area of research). However I am 30 and live and work in London and completely moving up to Birmingham as a part-time student is not really an option!! London has a great range of resources like the BFI, British Library etc so I think that I will be about to conduct most of the research down South. Birmingham is only 2 hours away on the train so I could get up there for meetings, tutorials, library visits etc...

If there anyone else out there who is doing a part-time arts/humanities PhD living away from their university, I would really love to hear from you about your experiences!

Thanks

Kate

Hi!!

I am hoping to do a part-time PhD in Canadian film at Birmingham Uni (as it is the only one that specialises in this area of research). However I am 30 and live and work in London and completely moving up to Birmingham as a part-time student is not really an option!! London has a great range of resources like the BFI, British Library etc so I think that I will be about to conduct most of the research down South. Birmingham is only 2 hours away on the train so I could get up there for meetings, tutorials, library visits etc...

If there anyone else out there who is doing a part-time arts/humanities PhD living away from their university, I would really love to hear from you about your experiences!

Thanks

Kate :-)