Doing your Ph.D. with me at QMUL
  1. First of all, you have to get accepted as a Postgraduate Student at QMUL. Please find all necessary information (application forms, etc.) under this link. Note: Your application will automatically be considered for awarding a QMUL Research Studentship, which covers the (high) tuition fees. Some of these scholarships also provide money for your basic living expenses. If you are planning to apply, please contact me beforehand. You should explain in your application that you want to work with me on a Ph.D. project, perhaps by roughly describing your own research interests, and that we have already been in touch on this. A more detailed research proposal is not needed. Your application will then be ranked by an expert committee. All Ph.D. grants available to the school will then be distributed according to this ranking. If you want to be considered for such a scholarship, you must apply until early April every year! Note that such scholarships are rare and the competition is tough, hence you must submit an outstanding application!
    Alternatively, you may wish to apply for an Overseas Research Students Award at QMUL, which is also highly competitive. These awards cover the difference between the overseas and home tuition fee for postgraduates so that awardholders pay a sum equivalent to the home rate.
    If you come with your own money, decisions about mere acceptance to our school are made frequently throughout the year.
  1. Another way to get funding would be to apply for some Ph.D. scholarship at some organisation:
    Of course, this list is not exhaustive. Unfortunately, for  British students the possibilities to apply for individual Ph.D. scholarships seem to be almost non-existent. It seems that such scholarships are essentially distributed by the single Colleges.
    If the conditions under point 1 of the previous webpage are fulfilled, I could offer to support your application for funding by some Letter of Invitation. If you are getting accepted as a Postgraduate Student at QMUL, note that there are opportunities to earn some money related to undergraduate teaching, but that will not be enough to pay your tuition fees or living expenses.
  2. If you already succeeded to get some money for your Ph.D. from other sources, please apply at QMUL as indicated above. If you are getting accepted, we might start right away on some research project. However, before collaborating we should ideally get to know each other. Hence, I would highly recommend that you try to present yourself to me / at our institute at due occasion, perhaps by giving a talk about some previous (masters level) work of yours.