Hi,

I have just been offered a scholarship for PhD! Very exciting because i missed out on ESRC 1+3 despite scoring well, and the only MA funding I was offered was £2000 towards fees.

Great news, but now i'm worried about missing out on the MA.

I was rejected for ESRC open comp 1+3. Scored 2 A's and an A+ and was told same story about no of applicants and places etc. But on the good side i was offered a different scholarship today for PhD which will be around the same amount! Really excited.

Well I didn't get the ESRC 1+3 open comp funding (good feedback though), but I am still on the reserve list for MA Full Fee funding and a Phd Scholarship. I also have a scholarship offer for £2000 towards MA fees. So things could be worse, but, unless the Phd scholarship reserve place comes through, I will still need to find living expenses. I should know in about a week for sure about the reserve places. It all seems very late to not know, the course starts in a few weeks!

I'm back to work at the moment and realistically staying here for the next month or two. I'm really unsure of what to do. I reckon i have saved enough money to live off for six months max, so i could leave work in second part of the year? I could take out a CDL, but then i would have to get a job at the end of MA to pay back, before doing PhD. Also really i want to be aiming at a distinction to secure funding next year. I thought about looking for a job that i don't have to focus so much on, but los of them were still 20 hours a week and for less money. I guess i could do the MA part time. Hmmm.

Hi,

I have a place on an MA starting this Oct and am in the process of finding out the results of funding etc. In the process of applying for funding i was encouraged to apply for various PhD funding awards starting this Oct too. Although I wasn't successful in getting PhD funding for this year, I am on the reserves list for several of these scholarships.

If i were to be offered either of these scholarships (fees and living exp) I would be going straight to PhD from BA. Does anyone have any experience of this? I am a mature student who has been in employment, then continued to work whilst studying FT at Undergrad. I got a first in my degree.

My main concern would be missing out on MA research training which would surely help for PhD research?

Thanks

Hi, i have a place on an MA in Human Geography at Leeds and have been put forward for ESRC 1+3 Open Competition, and have also applied for various bursaries. I won't hear back about funding results until August. I am making back up plans in case i am unsuccessful in acquiring funding.

What do people think about working PT through a FT MA? I worked about 20 hours a week through my FT undergrad degree and got a First at the end of it. However, i would prefer not to do this again.