The College and University Scramble for PhD Funding
On Tuesday, this week, I went to a seminar in London about locating funding possibilities for Creative Writing PhDs. What I learned was not good. At least not for me. The already slim opportunities that exist for Arts and Humanities research are now anorexic, and I emerged from the session kicking myself for having wasted £30 on the train fare simply to confirm what I already suspected: it's very unlikely I will receive funding because - like most postgrad Creative Writing students - I have not followed the traditional (i.e. preferred ) academic route. To be honest, rather than traipsing all the way to London for this news, it would have been less expensive and more convenient if I had just gone to Online PhD or one of the other online sites offering information and advice to postgraduate students. In short, this is what I learned: f unding bodies such as the Arts and Humanities Research Council like to play safe and...