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Postgrad funding

  • 16-12-2014 8:42pm
    #1
    eet fuk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 263 ✭✭


    I recently graduated with a degree in physics and I've been working in a small company since then. It's not really my cup of tea for the long term however, and I think I would like to pursue a post-graduate qualification and do some research.

    I'm largely familiar with the working of PhD's but I'm not so sure that I want to commit to 3/4 years. Does anyone here have any experience with funded research masters degrees that are 1/2 years in length? I have done a bit of browsing and most funding opportunities are for PhD level only. Any information at all would be very helpful.
    I would be happy to go abroad to study. I'm just finding it difficult to figure out where to begin!


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  • #2
    citrus burst
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭citrus burst


    As far as I know unless you have a research Masters degree, all PhD students in Ireland technically start off as Masters students and "transfer" over onto the PhD track upon completion of a transfer report and all the crap associated with that. I think you can use this opportunity to complete a Master's thesis and graduate with a level 9 instead. A friend had to do this when his funding ran out, but I don't think I know anyone willingly did this, in for a penny in for a pound. This may have also been caused by how the system was ran with people submitting their transfer reports two weeks before their thesis. I think they are trying to clamp down on that though


  • #3
    eet fuk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 263 ✭✭eet fuk


    I have heard of that type of carry on and it always seemed to be frowned upon. If I was staying in Ireland I'd be more comfortable doing to PhD, but I suppose if I went abroad I would prefer to only do 1 year in case the place didn't suit me.


  • #4
    daragh8008
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭daragh8008


    It is usually the case that you start on the masters registry, then half way or so you do a mini viva to transfer. It is a check to make sure you are making good progress. But usually the funding is in place for the full phd. As for doing a masters v a phd from my own experience I got practically no career traction with my masters. Doing the PhD was probably the best time of my life. But each to their own got to do some really cool stuff and found it was very rewarding. Though many of my friends didn't find as much fun. None regretted though


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