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[cheekbones3]

Right then folks. I'm severely creatively stifled. I want to go into research, or a job that has similar content and feel, and because my first degree is crap, I'm scuppered at almost all turns, even though I have an MSc. I fell into the trap of going straight from school to uni, and only in the last few years have I actually been in the proper frame of mind for study.

Time for your ideas: Do you reckon it would be worth me getting a decent BSc from scratch, to then get me onto a funded PhD in two or three years? I reckon I could get an honours degree in quick time, especially if I found a course that let me defer first year, or at least do it in my own time. Otherwise, I could just get a job (eventually) and be stuck doing stuff that isn't bad, but isn't really what I want to do. Either way, I think I'll be doing crappy work for the next year at least to pay for all these silly ideas...your thoughts are welcome anyway.

In other news, I reckon the new Kate Bush single is pretty good, now I've heard it a few times.

Also, I'll be down south until Saturday or maybe Sunday (Saturday if I can be arsed getting back to listen to the North Queensland v Tigers NRL grand final via the web on Sunday morning), so I'll see you all whenever.

Furthermore, I'm planning to go to see Scotland v Ireland in the RL Nations Cup on the 23rd of October with bunnyphone if anyone else fancies joining us.

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Re: If you don't want to read this, just read the last line.

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Well I've been trying for a while to get on a PhD, and NERC funding just isn't open to me. As for EPSRC, I think that's possible, and I've not tried for any PPARC courses, as that's not what I'm looking for these days. Chatting to the relevant academic might be an idea though, not sure why I didn't do that before enough. Think I'll fire off an e-mail about the one I applied for yesterday!

Thanks.

Re: If you don't want to read this, just read the last line.

[xquiq.livejournal.com]

Have you considered other routes to PhD funding? Sometimes if there's an opening in a department and you have an interesting enough idea you can get a paid post and do your PhD at the same time?

Of course that does rather depend on you having a relevant qualification in the first place. I'm not clear on whether you're wanting to pursue something you've done before or something completely different.

Re: If you don't want to read this, just read the last line.

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure at all about the whole "I've got a great idea" way into studying, I suppose mainly because I don't have one. I usually just chase projects which are already proposed.

I'm looking at working in an area which isn't really covered by what I've studied before, but which I've touched on with project work, so I'm sort of trying to demonstrate relevant skills and interests which don't show strongly on paper.