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Some of you will know that I recently (aged 47) completed my first degree - I decided when I left school that if Oxford wouldn't have me I'd not bother with university and went into the city so only just got round to it after 15 years working here at my university!
Anyway, I got a first class honours (and, though comparisons are not exact, about a 3.8 GPA according to the way we are calculating it here), and I'm thinking of trying to enrol for a PhD - possibly in January with an aim to register a thesis title next September.
My undergraduate dissertation was about finding a more mutual, social investment mechanism for financing postgraduate studies (which is here if you're interested - http://jockcoats.me/financing-postgraduate-education-mutual-approach). But in reality, since I think it's much the bigger problem, I want to do something about land, housing finance and community governance.
So, I wondered if anyone had any thoughts about what was *missing* from the Georgist, geo-mutualist, geo-anarchist type scholarly literature that might be a useful area to focus on for something PhD length. It's most likely to be on the "politics" side of "political economy" (my degree was Economics and Politics) but if something comes up for which economic statistical analyses would be needed I can always take the stats modules I didn't do at undergrad level, but could likely cope anyway.
Anything spring to mind that a PhD might be able to fill a gap in?
The ultimate aim is really to get into full time academe, teaching and researching in some aspect of political-economy. But if there's a glaring gap in the literature which filling might help make change more likely, that would really fire me up I think!
