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  1. Thank you! Ya, I bit the bullet and e-mailed her as well and I was waitlisted also. I was waitlisted last year too, so I'm disappointed but hopefully I'm higher on the list this time.
  2. Congratulations! Did you contact them yourself first? Or did they email you on their own? (Fellow uvic student here!)
  3. Thank you so much for this. Having been through this once already - some people may hear from their grad studies/departments by email but that is highly variable (I received a salt-in-my-wounds email notice from grad studies to let me know about my rejection a week AFTER I got my letter). And, yes SSHRC will tweet when they mail the results. Also, I am in BC and last year I received my letter from SSHRC a week and a half before my friend in Toronto got theirs - so distance is not a good predictor for when your mail will arrive. To those who are really anxious: It's always an anxiety-inducing process so my advice is to just distract yourself as much as possible until your letter arrives. Beyond the financial aspects, it can feel like the be all and end all in terms of validation, but it is not - I was pleased to meet a few Canadian professors this past year who never got a doctoral SSHRC grant and of course they are all excellent researchers and educators. So take heart, keep calm and good luck!
  4. Last year I got my CGS-SSHRC on April 1st
  5. Anybody heard back from Canadian universities?
  6. Hi Kaitri, My advisor explained the basis of this decision to me in a really helpful way. She said that your masters research is essentially about your ability to carry out a well-rounded, cohesive and coherent small-scale research project, and discuss and write in your field at an advanced level, so you can show PhD program committees that you are capable of doing this kind of stuff independently - that they can trust your abilities and you will be a valuable contributor to their team, and a good investment. Which school's environment will help you accomplish this goal? I stopped looking at the "prestigious" schools because, to me, that is only worth so much at the end of the day. It made me realize that my current school will give me the flexibility, finances, independence and supportive environment that I require to accomplish the aforementioned goals. And. I know that my advisor and my committee will go to bat for me for my LORs for Phd. Personally, since I am also doing Med anthro and because I too considered McMaster and Toronto (but got better funding and a better advisor elsewhere), I would go with McMaster. The faculty seemed really great, the advisor I was thinking of going with was amazing and it seemed like the environment fostered learning and collaboration rather than competition - the latter is often considered a negative trait of U of T's environment. My advisor and some of my colleagues were trained at McMaster in bio and med anthro and absolutely loved it. Coincidentally, one of my friends just last week chose McMaster over Toronto, Alberta and USask. Just my two cents. It's a difficult decision, no doubt, but whatever choice you make will be the right one.
  7. Hello all, I was in conversation with a professor in the Faculty of Education at my (Canadian) university yesterday. They studied both education and anthropology and stated that though anthro was their first choice for teaching, since there were no jobs, they had to settle, they said sadly, for teaching in the Education faculty. Of course, I am well aware of the dire job situation for Phds in Anthropology and other social sciences and humanities fields. Now, I'm starting to hear more and more first-hand accounts from disgruntled adjuncts and sessionals at my school, and a prof recently told me, half-joking half-serious, "make sure you are confident about your decision [of grad school], because we [tenured/tenure track profs] don't intend to die anytime soon, we're gonna hang on to these positions as long as possible". She has a point. My subfield is medical anthropology and I have been placating myself by telling myself that I can always work for hospitals/public health/NGOs/med faculties and research projects etc. but now I'm starting to worry that that is much easier said than done. So, I have started looking into MD/PhD programs (which...I don't wanna have to do). I've also started to double-up on my networking - something I'm already quite good at - and attending as many events, colloquiums, conferences etc. as possible and creating contacts. But, at the end of the day, I still worry, and hear my mom's voice in my head saying "I told you so". I just love medical anthropology and my dream job would be to teach and research in the field. So, after that long rant I'm wondering: are there any strategies that you are implementing now, during your graduate training to safeguard from unemployment?
  8. Hello again, I, too, have gotten overwhelmingly positive and encouraging responses from the profs. I contacted. HOWEVER, I have now decided to stay at my current university for my M.A for a number of reasons. I guess I'm feeling a little awkward now about all the great conversations I started with profs. at other schools, lol. Oh, how the tables have turned, I'll just let them down gently I guess (jk, I know I'm the beggar not the chooser in this situation)! If anyone is wondering: To continue the conversation with POIs over e-mail, I asked about their interests, specifically, what got them interested in their topics of research, if they had any recommendations for authors that I should read (I would talk about what I've read recently too), about the collegiality of the department, and the distinctions between fields, what their favorite thing about the department, university and/or city is (especially if they are newer profs), what they expect from their graduate students, if I could contact one of their students etc.Also, so far, I did not send my CV to any of the profs. It never came up, in part I think because its part of the app package and I don't think they like to see that stuff before the official process begins - just my 2 cents.
  9. Hello! I have a similar background in that my first undergrad was Psychology, and I too found Anthropology to be the field for me. I think it'll be important to elaborate on your interest and attraction to anthro (which I'm sure you will), but as a convert myself I do recommend taking a couple of foundation courses in anthro if you haven't already. I did a second degree in Anthro because I had the time and interest and I wasn't sure what I wanted to study exactly. In my opinion, your chances are good, as Anne00 mentioned, but for the sake of your own growth and development as a future anthro student I think its important to study the theories that inform the research that you are interested in. -Best wishes!
  10. Hi all- I am applying for Fall 2014 anthro programs with specialties in medical anthropology. I am just gearing up to start contacting potential supervisors (I think I'm late but no one else I know has started yet) and I'm starting to get a little nervous. Basically I'm concerned about "fit", and my grades and just getting in, in general. I'm applying to schools in Canada and UK including UToronto, Alberta, McMaster, Oxford, maybe Brunel. I'm terrified of applying to the UK schools but I think I'd regret it if I didn't. My safety school is my alma mater where I'm currently doing some grad work as a special student and the faculty knows me really well. While that's great and all, they don't have a med anthro specialty, which would be fine if it wasn't for the there is only one faculty member who studies med anthro and the fit isn't quite there. As well, I'm still trying to pin down what I want to study, my interests, due to my background and natural curiosity are very broad Too many things interest me, so I'm trying to narrow down my research interests while still keeping an open mind. I really want this whole application business to be a positive experience and it has been so far...I'm trying to think of it as just another adventure in post-secondary life.
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