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Searching 4 PHDs

  • 31-10-2004 6:47pm
    #1
    jArgHA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭


    I'm not sure if I've posted this to the right forum but here goes

    I am currently looking out for PHD positions in Ireland & Britain. Searching for PHDs seems to be an awful headache as it usually means trawling through a maze of individual university websites for the various research positions going. The navigational qualities of such sites varies greatly, and can drive one up the wall.

    What I'm wondering is whether there is any PHD searching website (something similar to a recruitment website) where institutions submit their positions? It seems to make sense that such a site would exist but I can't find any such thing..

    jAH


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  • #2
    deRanged
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭deRanged


    there's a list here - http://www.heanet.ie/resources/vacancies.php.
    it's won't be that exhaustive though, you'll still have to check each colleges website, and even contact people individually so see if they've positions available. I found that people are usually very helpful, they'll point you to someone in the dept who's offering places if they're not themselves.


  • #3
    damnyanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭damnyanks


    www.findaphd.com

    Its for the UK only though I think


  • #4
    jArgHA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭jArgHA


    thanks a million, those sites seem quite useful


  • #5
    ArthurDent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 915 ✭✭✭ArthurDent


    If you're looking for a PhD in a college you haven't been to, or even in the college you were in, be very, very careful picking your supervisor. Make sure you and they see eye to eye on the number of hours they expect to see you around each week, if they tend to catch up with you regularly or just when you run into a problem etc (try to find someone that you can work with) and whatever else you do find out the average time it takes their students to finish and write up (and don't rely on them for this, talk to other postgrads). Check out their publications list and find out their policies on authorship.

    The last thing you need is a supervisor who doesn't give a rats ass about you or your topic and you find yourself in a position that you've nothing to write up in 4 years - happens a lot more ofthen than it should. Too many people in my year ended up still trying to finish off a PhD 6 or 7 years later.

    HTH


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