Well this just turned personal.

I'm doing a DPhil at Oxford University in particle accelerators but the project is a nightmare. I'm tied to a national lab but out of all the research groups I'm part of I feel I have the least research freedom. I've asked to switch topic but always no. Ultimately I want to do something challenging that will contribute to the intellectual sphere and has some humanity associated with it.

So I'm going to apply for a new DPhil (from scratch) in Climate Research. I think that combines my skills in physics (mostly computational), my new found love for stochastic processes, and my strange CV that now includes having been a research assistant in both Disinformation and Economics.

The biggest obstacle I face will be trying to convince the interview panel that I'm not some wet quitter, but a serious DPhil candidate who wants to engage in proper physics research and hopes to escape a project that I feel was mis-sold.

Will I get back in for a new DPhil project? (Atm only have plans to apply to this one programme but will update if I apply for another)