I am applying for a PhD, and trying to think about the future. While I am doing the PhD, would I be an employee of the University? Say, for example if I did Master's seminars - as was usual when I was doing mine - would I be paid? Are there ways of working part-time after the PhD and earning a salary? I am thinking about pensions etc.
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I am in the process of writing my research proposal for a PhD in Education. I'm looking at a specific way of teaching languages. I won't go into any more detail as it isn't really relevant. Basically, in order to really be sure what methodology to propose I really need to check out what is possible, in terms of accessing PGCE students etc, so really it depends on what my supervisor thinks is feasible. My problem is, if I ask this now it looks like I am asking for help writing the methodology, but if I don't it will inevitably be quite vague until I actually get going. Has anyone been in a similar situation? Or have any helpful thoughts? thanks in advance.