Can anyone tell me what my offical employment status as a phd student is? Am I still in full-time education as a student, with access to student discounts and the like? Or employed as a researcher? I need clarification for applying to various things, including car insurance.

Thanks

for council tax and young persons rail tickets I was a student.

For other things I was a researcher :p

But I think officially its student.

You're not employed because student funding is almost always tax exempt, whereas if you were an employee you would be paying tax.

You are a student. Full-time by the sounds of it.

Postgraduate student. But still a student.

You are a student and a researcher (at my Uni I also have a student AND staff card), just choose whichever is the best. If you get a discount use your staff card. but if someone asks (especially in relation to accomodation) you are a researcher.

I put postgraduate student for my car insurance. I didn't want them to come up with any excuse not to pay out if I needed them too!

I go with researcher and student, depends whom I'm talking to.

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What staff card? I always had a (postgraduate) student card. Which could be used for student discounts.

I only got a staff card when I was actually staff i.e. working separately as an employed/paid research assistant, or some such.