Hi Rachococo,

I have just replied to your reply in a thread I started ages ago haha. But I literally applied for a competition funded PhD at Manchester last time around and it's quite confusing. My understanding is that the University has got funding for so many projects and then supervisors who have projects in mind advertise for a candidate. They then contact you if they're interested and decide who they're going to put forward to represent their project to the postgrad coordinator. They then decide which candidates are strongest and pick who they'll interview. Then once your interviewed they'll pick who will actually get the funding... so it's really hard in all! I got put forward by the supervisor but didn't get the interview which was a shame! But whatever the outcome just keep your chin up and you'll get there in the end! It's all useful experience... or so I keep telling myself haha! Good luck xx

Thanks for the advice everyone! I ended up getting shortlisted for interview but didn't actually get the funding in the end. Since then I've applied for another one where I was interviewed and they said they'd take me but didn't have enough funding for everyone so offered me a non-funded PhD!! I took it as good news but couldn't accept as I can't fund myself :(

Anyway, I'm now working back at my old Uni on a bit of an unpaid internship thing... and just doing some random temp work on the side... exciting stuff :p Fingers crossed it'll all work out in the end though and I can wangle some funding from someone! It's getting more frustrating the longer it's taking but got to just see the big picture at the end of it I think! Good luck to you too Rachococo! x

Hello!
Right I'm currently in the midst of applying for a fully funded PhD and have everything (pretty much) sorted apart from an academic CV :s It's for a PhD in psychology (designing a new prison intervention) and I'm just a bit confused as to what to include?? I've not had any real research experience apart from i've got a BSc. and MSc. in Psychology (with first and distinction) but I've not really had any other research experience outside of my courses.

Anyway, as i don't exactly have any publications to include I was wondering if anyone had any tips of what I could include or make sound more impressive than it is? Also any tips on structuring/length/topic headers etc. would be much appreciated :)

Thanks x