sorry to hear about your illness at the time which cost your PhD but it was a blessing in the disguise surely.

I hear what exactly you're saying. I wanted to do my PhD and faced financial problems and the university I wanted to go to didn't have teh supervisor but I understand they have for next year. I'll be doing my best to secure my place but need advice and tips on writing a good proposal and finding fully funded PhD. Any tips?

You surely thought of it yourself - (below is what I do usually in my commercial research planning)

1) what you need to review (subject of article, book etc.)

2) what the journal is about (industry and sector)

3) Who read the journal (students, businesses, government etc.)

4) how others approach the issue/similar review in previous studies, which you can usually see it in the actual book/article you are going to review

Hope that helps.

Good luck (up)

It seems you need to motivate yourself to finish what you started. It is very difficult to get things done when you don't have enough motivation, but this is something you will be proud of upon completion. Why not have a break from it for sometime and do something totally different, or remind yourself what were your motives back in 2006 ;-) Then you will be fresh once again and can complete your Ph.D.

Good luck my friend - anything I can help you with please just ask (up)

Hi everyone,

I've been recently thinking about doing my Ph.D. in Communications & Media. I understand there are number of universities doing this already. I need your help and advice on how best write up a proposal, narrowing down the research area, have an assumption or a question etc.

Thank you very much.