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A number of the hundreds and hundreds of students who have visited the site in the past few weeks have asked whether they can use myUface to look for postdoctoral fellowships.  I thought I’d take a moment on the blog to answer that question.

Sadly, the answer is no.  It’s not that we wouldn’t want to help students looking for a PhD – it’s just that our experience working with PhD candidates is pretty much non-existent.  We don’t want to say that we can do something, only to have good candidates sign up and find that we can’t in fact help them.

However, I do want to be of some use to such candidates, so I did some basic research.  Here are the results:

findaphd.com is a clearinghouse of PhD opportunities in the UK. There are also a lot of interesting links on this site, and a number of PhD scholarships are advertised there.

This site has got some good general advice about pursuing a PhD.

This wiki has the very basic step by step guide to applying to PhD programs in the U.S. It’s for science applicants, but I think the advice would apply to any subject.

Gradschools.com has a lot of information about individual graduate programs, and while it’s targeted more towards Master’s students, it will at least give you an idea of the right institutions.

Also, after having read quite a bit online, I think I can say that, yes, it’s very much possible to find a fellowship or scholarship to pursue your PhD. I’m sure such opportunities are competitive, but they also seem to be fairly abundant. For example, here’s a fellowship for PhD research through the American Association of University Women.

You can find answers to more questions at the myUface Help Section.