Timeline for Are PhD Students and PhD Researchers the same thing?
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| Nov 9, 2017 at 1:06 | comment | added | Alex | @PeteL.Clark This was based on a seminar that was available to all PhD students in Switzerland to help them plan their careers. They specifically advised us to avoid the term "student" for these reasons. Take from it what you want. I didn't make it up. It is possible that postdoc has a different connotation in certain countries such as the US. I only have experience with the Swiss and French systems where a postdoc is just a category of professional researcher who has already obtained their PhD and is not a part of the permanent staff (like a senior scientist). Maybe you could explain what you | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 0:58 | comment | added | Alex | @JeffE Idioms are expressions whose meanings are not deducible from their individual words and doesn't have anything to do with job titles. Also, language does have logical structure, it is called grammar. I think what you are trying to get at is that expressions evolve based on repeated usage, regardless whether it is correct or not (e.g. main courses are called entrées in the US). | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 0:11 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | "The generally accepted job title of a researcher who already has a PhD is a post-doctoral researcher." This is just not true. Postdoctoral researcher means something much more specific. "This makes sense considering that we do not say doctoral student for students that already have obtained their doctorates." In modern anglophone academic parlance, once you get your doctorate in X you are no longer any kind of student of X. Also, "doctorand" and "PhD student" are synonymous. If someone wants to stigmatize PhD students, then they will regardless of what they are called. | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 23:34 | comment | added | JeffE | Downvoted. People are not dictionaries, and human language is not logical. Idioms also vary significantly across different countries, institution types, and research communities. | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 23:31 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Nov 8, 2017 at 23:15 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 8, 2017 at 23:14 | history | answered | Alex | CC BY-SA 3.0 |