Timeline for In what cases are you able to start a postdoc without a "conferred" PhD?
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| Nov 11, 2022 at 9:27 | answer | added | Chris Jefferson | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 22, 2021 at 21:45 | answer | added | WetlabStudent | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 20, 2015 at 12:54 | comment | added | user2379888 | I defended in June, started my postdoc in August, and my degree was issued in October. My PhD advisor told me, due to scheduling, he didn't even defend until after he'd started his postdoc. As others have said, contact the postdoctoral institution. I suspect the most important detail for them is that you will have defended your thesis (successfully) before showing up. | |
| Dec 23, 2014 at 0:45 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | One slightly more likely possibility is that you might have to start with a different job title, and lower salary, until your degree is officially conferred. | |
| Dec 23, 2014 at 0:42 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | I agree that you would have to ask each individual department to know for sure. However, I would say that if you have completed all the requirements (including a successful dissertation defense), you have an official letter to that effect, and the delay before the conferral of the degree is beyond your control, then it would be pretty unreasonable for a department to refuse to let you start a postdoc on those grounds. Of course, unreasonable policies do exist. | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 14:29 | vote | accept | WetlabStudent | ||
| Dec 22, 2014 at 12:54 | comment | added | cbeleites | My university offered that if I needed the PhD before the next ceremony (or couldn't attend), I could a) have certified copies or b) get it without ceremony. On the other hand, I have been on postdoc positions (both regarding responsibilities and salary) for several years before. Depends quite a bit on negotiations and whether the institute is convinced they want you, and that you will nicely do the job etc, last but not least also on the local culture (whether negotiations are possible at all). | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 10:04 | comment | added | Vladimir F Героям слава | This also depends on what legally constitutes the end of the study in your country. Just now I am after my defense, but I will get my diploma in May. Nevertheless my study is legally finished and I am entitled to use the title by the law. Therefore the certificate from the university does not say "all requirements are completed" it really says that I finished the study and received the title "PhD". | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 3:45 | answer | added | Pete L. Clark | timeline score: 12 | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 3:23 | history | edited | WetlabStudent | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 22, 2014 at 2:36 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/546856869676204034 | ||
| Dec 22, 2014 at 1:34 | answer | added | RoboKaren | timeline score: 10 | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 1:14 | comment | added | keshlam | I don't think there's a general answer; it will depend on whether you impress them enough that they're willing to waive that requirement. How much will be needed to impress them will vary by school(s), by program(s), by who you have been working with and who you will be working with and what your recommendations look like and... | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 1:06 | history | asked | WetlabStudent | CC BY-SA 3.0 |