Hi,

I've been looking for info about doing a PhD this way and wasn't sure if it was possible. So I'm glad I found this thread. I'm wondering if when you are working full-time, do you get many opportunities to see and converse with your supervisor? I'm thinking of doing bioinformatics/computational biology type studies and I started of my MSc doing a distance part time course this way so I would think it's a possibility. I'm not sure what supervisor attitudes would be like to this minimal level of contact on a PhD.
Being employed full-time already I'm also wondering if the fact that with self-funding it would help my application chances, as I also got a poor BSc class (my excuse is that I had issues when I was young and foolish and doing my BSc but that doesn't really help me push on with my future unless I put it behind me) but I have worked in industry for 8 years and done an MSc since then.

S