Timeline for Applying for a postdoc. Should I mention that I completed my PhD with no supervision?
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| Mar 22, 2020 at 14:01 | comment | added | Our | I don't think having an advisor working on X while you are doing you PhD on Y is that much problematic, but "no people in area X (let alone Y) to talk to" would be a serious killing blow for me. | |
| Mar 3, 2020 at 21:08 | comment | added | Meths | @Karl True that! | |
| Mar 3, 2020 at 20:47 | comment | added | Karl | If your subject is sufficiently obscure (i.e. not currently overrun), everybody in it will know that your supervisor had no clue what you were doing. ;) | |
| Mar 3, 2020 at 13:19 | answer | added | WoJ | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 3, 2020 at 13:06 | comment | added | Meths | @houninym 2-3 external referees/examiners | |
| Mar 3, 2020 at 9:09 | comment | added | houninym | Just a wonder... if your nominal supervisor doesn't understand the area you are working in, who is going to be authoritative in examining your work? | |
| Mar 3, 2020 at 2:19 | answer | added | mongo | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 20:52 | vote | accept | Meths | ||
| Mar 2, 2020 at 20:30 | comment | added | Meths | @AnderBiguri I know, I didn't receive any help/guidance with any of those things either. It honestly has been "99% laissez-faire"! | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 20:20 | comment | added | JosephDoggie | Be positive about the situation, above all. To get a PhD it is assumed that a) you can do research on your own b) that you are willing and able to work under supervision, and usually with some sort of team-format. To the extent you worked with others (labs, any TA work, etc) emphasize that as well as your ability to do things on your own! | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 12:25 | history | edited | Wrzlprmft♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 2, 2020 at 10:10 | comment | added | Ander Biguri | Just to be clear: Supervision does not necessarily mean supervision om the research field. There are lots of supervising task that do not require knowledge of the field, but of management. Help you get on track of writing chapters, going to conferences, meeting people, etc. Did your supervisor not help with any of that either, or did them only not help with that particular subfield of maths? Because if its only the latter I'd say you still got plenty supervision | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 7:50 | comment | added | David Ketcheson | I don't mean this as a negative, but just for students in a similar situation who are still in grad school and reading this: I would be much more impressed if you had initiated connections with researchers in area Y (outside your institution) and then learned from and published research with them. That shows some important skills that will serve you well later in your research career. | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 5:39 | answer | added | Dan Romik | timeline score: 14 | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 4:36 | answer | added | Peter Dunne | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 2, 2020 at 2:04 | history | edited | Melanie Shebel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 1, 2020 at 23:41 | comment | added | Kimball | essentially complete research freedom (which I guess is strange for a typical PhD experience) - It's not that uncommon, and the situation should be clear from your reference letters. | |
| Mar 1, 2020 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1234222017131446272 | ||
| Mar 1, 2020 at 18:40 | answer | added | Anonymous Physicist | timeline score: 132 | |
| Mar 1, 2020 at 18:04 | answer | added | Bora Ön | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 1, 2020 at 15:43 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 1, 2020 at 10:12 | answer | added | Arno | timeline score: 30 | |
| Mar 1, 2020 at 8:41 | history | edited | lighthouse keeper | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 1, 2020 at 7:20 | review | First posts | |||
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| Mar 1, 2020 at 7:16 | history | asked | Meths | CC BY-SA 4.0 |