that sux
christ, if djtp can get one, I thought they must have been giving them out with cereal packets.

Can you self-fund? Might there be an employer who would love to exploit your research who might consider funding?

If all else fails, you could try going on the game.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:52, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I doubt I would earn much as a prossie
but I can't self fund, it doesn't really work that way in biological sciences. There's no real way of finding/applying for your own funding if you want a paid PhD: I could probably find one which comes without a stipend but then I would have no money to live off. So that's not really a go-er.
(berk, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:56, Reply)

if it's biological sciences
wouldn't some of the big pharmas be interested? Or, assuming you're in Europe, have you thought about Erasmus?

Wow, I really refuse to believe there's someone I can't help...
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 13:58, Reply)

There's something called a CASE studentship
which is where a company - usually a big pharma - supplies the funding and the research is carried out mainly at the university but partially at the company too. But you still have to apply for those in the same way, meaning I'd likely get turned down and pharma doesn't really interest me. There really is no way and nowhere you can apply for your own personal funding and then go to a lab of your choice. I've asked. The few PhDs I've looked at in Europe would require me to have an MSc - it's this pesky 2ii I have, see.
(berk, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:05, Reply)

bummer
in that case, I would definitely recommend retail therapy.

Also, one of my teachers at school was doing a PhD of her own, and had been working on it for at least 15 years as and when she could afford it. Take a job, earn some money and a good reputation, then take a sabbatical and do your PhD later.

Or, kidnap a family member of one of the review board, and threaten to strat sending body parts back until you get the result you want.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:13, Reply)

Yeah, that works less well
when you're doing primary research. A PhD which just involves a lot of reading and writing and not being in a lab, you can take as long as you like. Sadly without a PhD there is no career, no progression so I'll just have to stay at the shitty level I'm at and lump it.
(berk, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 14:15, Reply)