Tere is anybody doing his/her Ph.D. without receiving any financial support by the university?
If you start a Ph.D. without funding, there is any possibility to find something after few months?

A university will want to see some concrete evidence of funding being in place. More so if you are not a UK national.

ditto Golfpro. You have to provide documentary evidence of funds being available.

I think doing a Ph.D. without funding is almost a folly!!!
After many years of study you should not pay to work!!!!If the University can not provide you any funding they should not offer you a position!!!

I'm keeping all my options open not been too reliant but if you get a job at the uni surely that can help?

I wasn't asked to prove anything

HA HA HA if they'd seen my bank account they would have thought twice about that offer

Luigi - not all areas of research are well funded so there simply isn't the money available to fund every PhD student.

Same as sixkitten, they'd never have let me through the door, if they'd seen my bank statements - simply laughed. I am 1/2 way through and it's a constant struggle with the fees & to be honest I don't really know how/ if I will be able to pay my way through from one day to the next.
The money I earn from teaching only covers my living expenses and the money I earn from freelance work, always takes ages to come through - anything up to 60 days from invoice & even then I sometimes have to chase it - so it's really unstable.
I had no choice though. other than self funding.
I am one of those people who is stuck somewhere between the AHRC & ESRC. I applied to the open ESRC competition and although I scored reasonabley & my supervisors got an amazing score - they still turned me down & I found out that this year the ESRC awared a grant to only 1 ( yes thats a big fat one) person in my subject area out of nearly 4000 applicants.

Are you part or full time?

moi? FT although I spend 4-6 hours teaching a week + additional 2-5 hours preping or marking & then about 1-2 days a week on my freelance marketing/ events & the odd magazine article here and there.