Timeline for Are PhD Students and PhD Researchers the same thing?
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| Jan 12 at 7:39 | history | edited | CrimsonDark | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 21, 2022 at 22:28 | answer | added | Huyen | timeline score: -1 | |
| Mar 15, 2022 at 17:27 | answer | added | Dt Milto Miltiadou | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 30, 2019 at 19:58 | comment | added | Flyto | Anecdote: During my PhD I always wrote "PhD researcher" on business cards etc. There are two audiences: One is people in academia, who will know exactly what that means. The other is people outside academia, who may see "PhD student" as "student". For those people, the fact that I was a researcher was more important for most intents and purposes than whether I had a PhD or not. | |
| Nov 24, 2018 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1066300540576047104 | ||
| Nov 24, 2018 at 3:05 | answer | added | Sid | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 23:14 | answer | added | Alex | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 29, 2016 at 3:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 23, 2016 at 7:51 | answer | added | Gerhard | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 22, 2016 at 23:01 | comment | added | Gerhard | And if you really just want to avoid the word "student" on your CV: why not just write "PhD-project", potentially adding "in subject/topic"? Or maybe "PhD research project"? | |
| Jun 22, 2016 at 21:37 | comment | added | Gerhard | @Trylks: language is the way it is, and unilateral "bug fixing" does not work, as communication requires both parties to buy into the premise. As for "pre-doctoral researchers": I agree with you (and wikipedia) that I would interpret it as a period BEFORE the start of a phd-project. I just described that i have phd-project advertised as pre-doctoral-positions, usually from Spanish universities (so possibly it is a 1:1 translation from the original Spanish term). | |
| Jun 22, 2016 at 20:00 | comment | added | Trylks | Predoctoral, as predoctoral fellows (in wikipedia) refers to people still not studying a PhD, who might be considering whether to study one or not, possibly depending on whether they can find a grant or some funding for the duration of their PhD studies or not. If there is no difference between graduate and postgraduate students, I think we have found a "bug" in English, and IMHO it's a bad one academia.stackexchange.com/q/71563/7571#comment-174731 | |
| Jun 22, 2016 at 19:48 | comment | added | Gerhard | @Trylks: i unfortunately do not think so. "Doctoral researcher" might be a bit more ambiguous (in a good way from your perspective), but comparing it to "postdoctoral researcher" has the same problem as distinguishing between graduate and postgraduate students: there is no difference. Many languages have a separate word for phd students, like "Doktorand" in German, which reflects what you want to say. English unfortunately does not. The closest I can think of is "PhD candidate". I have also seen people advertise Predoctoral posts, which might also work, but sounds quite odd to my ears. | |
| Jun 22, 2016 at 19:40 | comment | added | Trylks | @AndreasBlass Doctoral researcher should then convey the meaning unambiguously, thanks to the term "Postdoctoral researcher". | |
| Jun 22, 2016 at 19:40 | comment | added | Trylks | @Gerhard Doctoral researcher should then convey the meaning unambiguously, thanks to the term "Postdoctoral researcher". | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 2:26 | comment | added | JeffE | There is no correct answer. Language varies wildly across disciplines, countries, and institutions. For extra confusion, let's throw in "PhD candidate"! | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 2:12 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | I agree with @Gerhard, and I'd go a bit further. To me, "Ph.D. researcher" unambiguously means a researcher who already has a Ph.D. | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 1:05 | comment | added | Jaap Eldering | I think the main issue is that people who are working towards their PhD are considered "students" in many places, but not all. For example, I obtained my PhD in The Netherlands, where most PhD "students" are employees and a master is a prerequisite. Others and I have used the term "PhD candidate" to distinguish from the "student", but this term also has other connotations in English, see academia.stackexchange.com/questions/10972/… | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 21:43 | comment | added | Gerhard | A "PhD researcher" might easily be confused with a "researcher who has a PhD". PhD students are researchers in training, and hence of course do perform research. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 21:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 19, 2016 at 20:45 | answer | added | Bill Barth | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 20:36 | history | asked | Trylks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |