I have got some interesting research topic and I would like to seek financial support.

I will talk to my faculty while the topic may not to be covered by my PHD founding, what should I do?

I have heard that there are a couple of research agencies or web sites who help researcher to contact industry or institutes?

Any recommendations from you will be appreciated? (sprout)

It seems not a big problem for those who have been working in academic circle and had their publication or at least ongoing ones.

Ph.D by publication probably encourage more polished sections of the thesis by reviewing with the criteria of high ranking journal article. For instance, a published literature review may generally be better than those involved in a traditional dissertation, in this case the author should also specify something they may not do in the counterpart of a conventional thesis.

However,is it possible that my early paper still can not be accepted after the sections of suevey and disscusion have already been pubished?

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Hello there,

I am a new Ph.D student.My supervisors have just approved my research question and working title.

Then they advised me to shift to the Ph.D of "thesis by publication" which means I should have 2-6 publications during the same period of "traditional Ph.d).

I am not sure about that,I think it is risky and challenging because the rejection or revision would mess my procedure.

Any suggestion would be appreciated.(robin)