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should I say in my university for Phd???

chen 13 posts
9 years ago

Quote From amyoxborrow:
I don't think you should worry too much about the ranking of the university. I think with PhDs it's more important to secure the research that you are really passionate about and finding a really good supervisor who will be there to help you all the way through.

As for being a teacher, do you mean school/sixth form teacher? In which case in the UK you only require an undergrad degree and a teacher trainign qualification so it might be worth looking into this instead of a PhD.

Also, are you likely to get fully funded at your current university? If you are, it's definitely worth going for that as fully funded PhDs are hard to come by or so I understand from talking to friends.

I hope this helps, I am very new to this site so please forgive me.

Thanks! I don;t think my uni would provide me with scholarship, and actually my parents will fully support me during the Phd study. To be a teacher i mean to teach in the university. I am a Chinese so that why, or i would say most of Chinese people they treat the university ranking very seriously. anyway, i am not that serious. i think you are right, a good supervisor and the passion to research are more important than just the ranking.

My friend told me, he heard from an India teacher, the teacher told him if you want to get just a degree then you can stay here, if you want to learn more then go to other unis. I don't really understand. For Phd i think your supervisor and yourself are the most important factors. As I know it's a research and being guided by the supervisor process, rather than being taught on the lectures. well this is just i think so, no one told me how exactly the Phd will be...

should I say in my university for Phd???

chen 13 posts
9 years ago

Hi

I am currently in my master study in a university in London. But dissertation supervisor looks like being interested in me and wants to supervisor me for Phd study. I am not sure the potential supervisor is him or another professor. My dissertation supervisor is not a professor, he is a senior lecturer and he graduated in a top15 university in the UK few years ago.

My university ranks very so so, in between 80 and 90 in the UK....according to the new ranking, the academic score of my uni is just 2.2.

i don't know what I should do now. i know if i want to stay, it will be more easier for me because my dissertation supervisor will give me a topic for the research proposal. otherwise i need to write it myself...i think it's hard. My dream is to be a teacher in the UK. That's the main reason for me to take Phd. of course i want to have good knowledges as well.

but, honestly speaking, if my Phd potential supervisor is that professor,then i really want to stay because he is a kind of famous. i know it's is very likely that i won't follow a professor if i apply for another universities. so what do you think guys? do you thing it is worth taking a phd in this university that has not good ranking??

Thanks:):):)

A Phd project? what is that?

chen 13 posts
9 years ago

Quote From Mark_B:
Hi Chen

A PhD is a PhD, funded or not - don't worry!

A funded PhD will usually be set up by the university in question as part of an ongoing research initiative in that subject area. The department / lab / supervisor will have some funding available to support a certain number of students and will be seeking applications to find the best candidates.

Because these are set projects (the money is there to support work on a specific topic) you won't submit your own research proposal in the same way. Instead, you'll need to show that you're the right candidate for that particular project.

Funded projects are more common in some subject areas than others - Arts and Humanities students, for example, normally write their own proposals. This doesn't mean they can't be funded if the university has money available, but in these cases studentships are usually just offered to the 'best' students, not tied to specific projects.

I hope that helps a bit?

Best

Mark

yes, it definitely helps. I think I will try both. I mean one side I will apply for one project that I am mildly interested in, then I will also produce I proposal in which the area I intend to research. My programme leader just told me today that the selection of potential Phd students is very competitive in the UK, even in my university now( because my university ranks at 80 to 90 in the UK)....well, I just hope the uni's ranking won't affect my application......

A Phd project? what is that?

chen 13 posts
9 years ago

Quote From Caro:
Funded usually means that the cost of the PhD is covered and you will get a stipend to live from. If you write your own proposal funding is not guaranteed, you will need to talk to your potential supervisors, they will know more about funding in your subject area - often applying for funding this way is very competitive too but it really depends on your subject. I'm not sure I understand your question about the degrees being the same, PhD's are the same level of degree no matter what. It's just planned projects you have a research idea from your supervisors to work on and if you format your own proposal the idea is coming from you.

Thank you very much!

[urgent]Anyone know about stock market? how to find the subsription data of a stock?

chen 13 posts
9 years ago

Hello everyone

I am writing my dissertation now and i need to find out some stocks' offer date, which is also know as the period of pre-selling. Does anyone who know about this? I didn't find anything in the prospectus or datastream.

Please help me out, i really need this for my dissertation and it is essential !

I appreciate for your help.

PS:

now i am confused with the definition of that.

If anyone knows about the stock market, please read the following:

I use the mythology used by Aggarwal et al. (1003) and Khurshed and Mudambi (2002). It's about the initial return of the stock.

firstly, they calculate the The return of the stock i in period t is calculated as:

R_it=P_it/P_i0 -1,where R_it=P_it/P_i0 -1.

Then The corresponding market return for stock i in period t is calculated as

R_mt=P_mt/P_m0 -1, Where Pmt is the market value at the end of period t and Pm0 is the market value on the offer day of the stock i.
Finally, they calculate the market adjusted abnormal return (MAAR) for the stock i in the period t :

〖MAAR〗_it=[((1+R_it ))/((1+R_mt ) )-1]*100

So my question is, in the first equation, we use the offer price when the investor buy the share before the share trading publicly. and the 3rd equation we use to get the market adjusted abnormal return, therefore, we should use the corresponding date for the 2nd equation. Does this make sense? So the corresponding date for the 2nd equation should be the date we used in the 1st equation, which is the time when investors buy the shares. So the "offer date" should not be the date of the first trading day of the shares. Am I right?

A Phd project? what is that?

chen 13 posts
9 years ago

Quote From Caro:
The PhD's on findaphd will tell you if there is funding attached etc so you can apply for a project which already has funding. You won't need to write a proposal usually, you apply like it is a job - each might be different but it should tell you what they require you to do, a CV and covering letter is the standard format, and then you interview for the post - it'll likely be quite competitive if it's a funded project. Writing a proposal yourself I would guess is a very different process, but I'm in sciences where that is very rare so I don't know much about that I'm afraid.

yes, i think you are right, there should be every competitive for such projects which are already funded. but , may I ask, what do you mean by "funded"? if i write a proposal myself and then apply for a phd, then my project cannot be funded? because i really saw some projects that i am interested in but i am not sure about the main difference between those two i mentioned, i mean mainly about the final awarded Phd degrees, are they the same?

A Phd project? what is that?

chen 13 posts
9 years ago

Hi

I just saw on the website of findaphd.com there are a lot of phd projects which have already defined research area and future things. I just don't understand if I see something that I am interested in in those phd projects, do i still need to write a proposal? and what is the difference between such phd projects and if I write a proposal myself then apply for phd? Thanks a lot.

Am I the only one who ask about the Phd proposal? SOS plz!

chen 13 posts
9 years ago

thanks for your answer! So a new area, and, what about something has been mentioned, i mean just something looks logical, and a lot of researchers have concluded on that thing, but they have different answers, why no one has explained about why the aswers are different, but I want to explore it, is this a new area?

Am I the only one who ask about the Phd proposal? SOS plz!

chen 13 posts
9 years ago

Quote From Eds:
If it's an unresearched area like your diss then the reading is AROUND the topic rather than on it itself. You ned to focus- identify specific questions that need to be asked and how you would go about answering them you need to write a specific proposal and submit it. However there's no harm asking experts in the field for advice is there. Most will be happy to help especially if it is likely to bring a new student (with those overseas fees you can bring...) into their departments. I asure you you will be pretty popular with HoDs! So if you give them a reason to take you, they will. Get with it now.

First things first, finish the MA. A distinction will only augment your value; don't piss it up now. Good luck!

thank you! I think i have to read more and more and use critical thinking to find out the gap! i am too rush to apply for the Phd i think

Am I the only one who ask about the Phd proposal? SOS plz!

chen 13 posts
9 years ago

Quote From Eds:
First things first, get a second opinion! And a third, and a fourth. That vietnamese 'teacher' might have had any number of reasons unconnected with your ideas to give you a brush off. Yes your idea might be a load of balls- but don't give up on it yet, there are other universities and other lecturers (Vietnamese or otherwise!).

there are thousands of articles in an area, how to find something new from them? just keep reading and reading? i am seriously feeling upset in these days and i don't want to do anything even for my dissertation now........

Am I the only one who ask about the Phd proposal? SOS plz!

chen 13 posts
9 years ago

any one can help me?

Accepted a PhD for next year, but am i good enough?

chen 13 posts
9 years ago

Congratulation! You much have a good Phd proposal already. I have all modules with distinction so far but I don't have a good topic for the proposal. I am still struggling with it! Can you share your experience of how you prepare your proposal? I am NOT asking about your topic, but just the experience you have. Thanks :)

Am I the only one who ask about the Phd proposal? SOS plz!

chen 13 posts
9 years ago

Hello everyone

i hope I am not the first one to ask about the Phd proposal. I just feel so bad now.

I am a Chinese student in master study in the UK. So far I have finished all my modules and I am writing my dissertation at the moment. I got all distinctions for my 6 modules and I am confident that I will get distinction for my dissertation as well after 2 months.

Then I want to take Phd study in the UK for another 4 years(or 3 years). Frankly speaking, I don't recognize myself is a clever student, but I always work hard. Well, procrastination happens sometime...

I am interested in the stock market, venture capital, private equity. Recently I have read some articles, but I don't seen anything new.... I met a teacher in my university. She is a Phd and from Vietnam. She just negated me when I try to explain some of my ideas.

Now I am being confused. I just listed few questions below, really hope someone can help me:

1, Does it mean I have not read enough article? or just because I am not eligible for Phd?

2, what does mean "a new area"? is it the same as a gap in some articles? For example, a new research has studied on the question A which has never been studied before. And we know this study can not cover everything in that topic. So if I have noticed problem B in that article and found there is no one that has studied on the problem B, is this a new area??? can Any one give me a example?

Interestingly, my dissertation is about the 2008 financial crisis and venture backed IPOs, which is topic that no one has researched on it....I didn't find anything about this topic.... I don't know why, maybe it's not worth researching on it because there were not a lot new issues after the crisis.....

I really appreciate is any one can help me out! Thanks in advance!