Timeline for What is the hardest part of transitioning from a PhD to a full-time career in academia?
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Jun 10, 2021 at 7:45 | answer | added | G. Fougeron | timeline score: 0 | |
Jun 9, 2021 at 13:52 | comment | added | stackoverblown | The hardest part? More candidates than available academic positions. And departments have politics of who to hire. It is not always the best candidate. | |
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Jun 9, 2021 at 0:55 | answer | added | Tom | timeline score: 0 | |
Jun 9, 2021 at 0:51 | comment | added | user136193 | @EarlGrey Absolutely, I do not mean that these people have "failed" in any manner, I just mean that they have not made the transition, and that among them, there will be people who originally intended to go into a full-time career in academia. | |
Jun 8, 2021 at 18:48 | comment | added | EarlGrey | Please note that the remaining 9 over 10 PhDs (in the STEM area) that did not find their way in Academia usually got a good position in - research institution - public employee and similar etc - companies | |
Jun 8, 2021 at 18:01 | answer | added | Houska | timeline score: 11 | |
Jun 8, 2021 at 17:49 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | PhD students are (almost always) full-time academics. | |
Jun 8, 2021 at 15:57 | comment | added | user136193 | @gerrit I think this thread provides a few statistics, but I am yet to read through it completely. It is also only for the transition from PhD's to tenured professors. | |
Jun 8, 2021 at 15:52 | comment | added | gerrit | This could do with an answer that looks at actual data: How many PhD students are hired per year in a given field, how many postdocs (including re-hires), and how many faculty. Preferably world wide. I expect that would confirm my experience that it's relatively easy to go from PhD to postdoc if willing to move world wide, but that going from postdoc to faculty is hard. | |
Jun 8, 2021 at 13:41 | comment | added | user2705196 | "Hardest" is ill-defined. Maybe one could answer a question about transition rates. | |
Jun 8, 2021 at 13:24 | comment | added | user136193 | @DanielR.Collins Thanks for the suggestion! Will definitely check it out. | |
Jun 8, 2021 at 13:17 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | Highly suggest you read Lantsoght, The A-Z of the PhD Trajectory (available online), esp., Sec. 13.5.1: "Transitioning from PhD Student to Faculty Member". | |
Jun 8, 2021 at 13:16 | comment | added | user136193 | @JyrkiLahtonen Haha, I've not yet earned a PhD, I have only just finished my undergraduate degree :) | |
Jun 8, 2021 at 12:42 | comment | added | Jyrki Lahtonen | Are you saying that you didn't work full time while earning the PhD? Shame on you :-) | |
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Jun 8, 2021 at 8:23 | answer | added | sleepy | timeline score: 12 | |
Jun 8, 2021 at 8:01 | answer | added | Ian Sudbery | timeline score: 16 | |
Jun 8, 2021 at 3:12 | comment | added | user136193 | When I say academia, I mean a full-time career in academia, affiliated to a University, conducting research, handling classes, basically a professor position. | |
Jun 8, 2021 at 3:03 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | The title is unclear to me, PhD students are in academia | |
Jun 8, 2021 at 2:17 | answer | added | markvs | timeline score: 7 | |
Jun 8, 2021 at 2:08 | answer | added | Anonymous Physicist | timeline score: 64 | |
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Jun 8, 2021 at 1:59 | history | asked | user136193 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |