5th June 2007, 12:37 PM
A colleague just passed on details of a PhD studentship that he thought would interest me: The Mesolithic of England and the Planning Process. This is one of several PhDs jointly funded by EH where there is a fresh approach to combining the academic with commercial archaeology. This one has supervisors from EH and Dept of Archaeology, York Uni.
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/Projects/MesoPhD.html
Could this be my new direction in life? Surely, my publication record, including Mesolthic sites under PPG16, would hold me in good stead? Unfortunately not. Despite being able to tick most of the boxes I lack one essential criterion...no masters degree.
I was still curious so looked up the York supervisor's web page. What, no masters for them - a BA and straight to PhD! Oh yes, one of their masters students is researching the Mesolithic and developer funded fieldwork.
I would have thought such criteria in selection procedure approaches discrimination. When I left uni there were very few master degrees. In the meantime I have cracked on in field archaeology, gaining considerable practical and academic experience, producing several publications.
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/Projects/MesoPhD.html
Could this be my new direction in life? Surely, my publication record, including Mesolthic sites under PPG16, would hold me in good stead? Unfortunately not. Despite being able to tick most of the boxes I lack one essential criterion...no masters degree.
I was still curious so looked up the York supervisor's web page. What, no masters for them - a BA and straight to PhD! Oh yes, one of their masters students is researching the Mesolithic and developer funded fieldwork.
I would have thought such criteria in selection procedure approaches discrimination. When I left uni there were very few master degrees. In the meantime I have cracked on in field archaeology, gaining considerable practical and academic experience, producing several publications.