Timeline for Should my PhD thesis be submitted under my legal name?
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| Mar 27, 2019 at 8:17 | comment | added | Michael Kay | Administrators should certainly be used to name-changes caused by marriage, and there's a formula for that: Mary Jones née Smith. Name changes caused by gender reassignment are probably more problematic, because people may want to "wipe out the past", and administrative systems have trouble with that. | |
| Mar 26, 2019 at 9:29 | comment | added | stuart10 | As others have said, the administrative burden may be not so slight if you move to a (typically civil law) country where you have to produce your degree certificate more frequently. It may be a particular problem if you move to a country where people do not or can not change their names. | |
| Mar 26, 2019 at 7:05 | comment | added | vsz | @AzorAhai : sadly, that's typical for many bureaucrats: even if they've seen something millions of times, they still often act as if it was the first time they encountered it. | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 17:08 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | @Ali If they regularly ask for it, why aren't they used to people (women especially) changing their names? | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 16:13 | comment | added | Ali | In the UK employers usually ask for these certificates too. It is sometimes awkward for people who changed their names through (re)marriage, divorce etc. | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 15:40 | comment | added | Martin Bonner supports Monica | @user2768 I'm not in academia, but my employer in Switzerland wanted my O-level certificates from 1974 (as well as my degree certificate). (If you are not familiar with the British education system, O-levels were the muggle equivalent of OWLs.) | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 15:32 | comment | added | user2768 | @MartinBonner That seems unnecessarily bureaucratic, but not unexpected. Does that hold for say a 50 year old professor? | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 15:16 | comment | added | Martin Bonner supports Monica | "degree certificates probably won't be required later in life" - probably true in UK/USA/etc, not so true in Germany/Switzerland/etc. | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 14:38 | comment | added | user2768 | @Kathy I suppose that depends how you quantify burden. Changing later might reduce the lifetime burden, because after graduation there is less life. That said, degree certificates probably won't be required later in life, so the period of disruption is perhaps fixed. I'm not sure whether these details are particularly useful. Crucially, changing a name later has a higher impact on professional life, since a name is essentially a brand, which (hopefully) improves over time. | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 14:00 | comment | added | Kathy | Wouldn't the burden be the same as if someone changed their name after graduation? | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 13:05 | comment | added | user2768 | @Kimball Regardless, it is a slight burden? | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 12:48 | comment | added | Kimball | It may create a slight administrative burden, in that you may have to prove that your degree certificate is yours - I think this is not at all an issue in Western academia, nor if one goes to industry/government/etc. | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 9:21 | history | answered | user2768 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |