Hi Phdbug, thanks for replying. It's the subject i miss rather than university. It seems doing something i enjoy in addition to gaining more qualifications will open up doors in the future for me. However i understand where you're coming from so thanks for the advice. Sleepyhead, i have a first and i'm interested in financial mathematics but if there was something different that is interesting to me, i would consider applying for it. I guess the next step is to look into some potential research projects!

Hi sleephead, thanks for the reply. I'll be looking for a funded project. I was ideally going to apply for a studentship at Liverpool uni but none have come up yet. What are the chances of obtaining funding from a research council?

Hi everybody. I am new to this forum so if i'm asking questions that can be found elsewhere, feel free to let me know! I graduated from the University of Liverpool in June 2008 and have found it very difficult to find a job that i want to do. I've slowly realised that i miss university (well, learning) and so i am thinking about looking for a PHD. I studied Maths with Finance where the maths side consisted of a lot of statistics. However my interests are really varied but when searching PHDs i am unsure whether i'd be considered as just under half of my course contained finance modules. So i'm basically looking for some advice on how to go about searching for a suitable PHD and any other general help. Feel free to ask me any questions!