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  • 20-10-2018 3:49pm
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    Diggity2018
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭


    Hi,

    I'm considering doing a Phd in archeology. Can anyone tell me when the living allowance/grant stops? I'm thinking maybe upon graduation?
    Thanks


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    Diggity2018
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭Diggity2018


    Would love to know if anyone has experience in this with a PHD in ireland? Especially Nuig?
    Thanks


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Diggity2018 wrote: »
    Would love to know if anyone has experience in this with a PHD in ireland? Especially Nuig?
    Thanks

    Entirely depends on the specific grant funding your PhD, but considering people tend to graduate months after completing their PhD studies, I'd be very surprised if a grant continued paying until then. Once you've finished your thesis/been examined you'd be free to get a job so most only pay for a certain number of years (usually 3-4 if full time) and it's up to you to finish it in time. Most PhD students I've known have only just about gotten their theses submitted before their grant ran out, had to ask for an extension or wrote up their thesis after their funding ran out. None were continuing to receive funding up until graduating.

    Really if considering a PhD you need to be doing a lot more research into this, including the specifics of any funding you might be applying for. Funding is extremely competitive and a PhD is a huge undertaking, not to be entered into blindly.


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    Smegging hell
    Registered Users Posts: 460 ✭✭Smegging hell


    The IRC postgraduate scholarship runs out at the end of fourth year, regardless of whether you've submitted or not. The same is true of the Galway Doctoral Scholarship which is the internal arts and humanities funding scheme in NUIG. Neither continues till graduation.


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