So, in light of this thread, it seems that there are a lot of PhDs on STW.

How many of you actually hold one? And in what field?

Dr SaxonRider, historical theology

Dr julesf7, economics (runs and hides…)

Dr ART, if you please, corporate enviromental management & strategy (good grief) 😯

Dr StirlingCrispin, dairy science (or something like that)

Dr doc_blues, Immunopharmacology…actually thinking about it is was Neuroimmunopharmacology but that sounds a bit gash tbh

user name is related to the ‘doctoroal’ and ‘postdoctoral’ blues you get when you have been in research too long…

Dr Juan useless chemistry as it seems I can get a job 🙁

Dr IA, Informatics

Currently job hunting, if anyone needs an AI researcher…

Dr Clark – Chemical Engineering

But working in Sports 😀 much better

Dr BB – Engineering/Composite materials analysis

Dr tg2003 molecular cytogenetics

It still surprises me when someone calls me doc, I never use it.

about 9/10ths of one.

in Environmental Geochemistry.

submitting a thesis would be a good way to get the additional 1/10th, but it doesn’t want to go together.

hey ho, 7 years in industry and it really doesn’t matter.

Dr AdamW: molecular electronics/chemistry

Team found out about it a few years after I started. I’m now known as ‘the doc’.

I just wanted a verrry long scarf, that was all 😀

nearly Dr Marp, PhD applied biomedical research (physiotherapy). Writing up as we speak

Dr Zokes, Soil Biogeochemist (allegedly).

Seem to have found the holy grail of doing PhD, then Postdoc, then bugger off down under for twice the salary and a permanent job

Dr Shackleton, Plant Cellular Biochemistry. Still trying to make a career of it………

Dr saxabar: culture, creativity and communications

Dr Yetivaud, Analytical Chemistry/ Nutrition/ Biomarkers. PhD seemed to open loads of doors for me in science……. allowed me to find work in Switzerland quite easily.

Dr mema, optoelectronics, post doc in building massive mirrors for a big telescope and other stuff that Im not allowed to say!
I love when I’m are asked ‘so is that Miss or Mrs? ehhh Doctor!

Dr Anagallis_arvensis plant community ecology

Dr Foster, PhD in walking into surprisingly deep puddles.

Dr jwr – Computer Graphics & Image Processing.

Was all lined up to start one (in signal processing) but then I got offered an actual job.

I remain un-doctored (but considerably better paid).

Dr STS – PhD in Glaciology and numerical ice sheet and erosion modelling

Good to know.

I work as as technician to a national scientific service.

It’s amazing how many people assume I’m Dr Dan. About 90% of the stuff that gets sent to me is addressed to Dr Dan.

I have a 3rd class degree to my name (which I struggle to spell correctly most of the time) and can’t do basic maths in my head. Woo!

It makes me wonder how easy it would be to fake being a Dr (not a medical one..)

Dr PeteO – Mechanical Engineering

Dr rkr – computational chemistry although now working in mech eng

Dr uponthedowns Chemistry

It makes me wonder how easy it would be to fake being a Dr (not a medical one..)

Given some of the stories that make it to press, I’m slightly worried as to how easy it is to be a real doctor, not just a pretend one like me…

Dr redmist – geology and now working as a postdoc

Dr D – Laser Physics

Dr Joe. PhD in Computer Science, but mainly actually about magic and juggling.

Dr DaveRambo – AI in Analytical Chemistry

Dr Pippin – Forest Harvesting – 3 years about cutting down trees and chopping them up. Currently employed in working how to cut more trees down and burn them

The humanities are much neglected among mountain bikers, it seems. 😐

Writing up at the moment, another glaciologist.

I’ve just enrolled on mine Biochemistry but a lowly MSc at the moment 😳

Dr Jamie, Psychology

The humanities are much neglected among mountain bikers, it seems.

Dr Robespierre: Psychoanalysis and English National Identity.

Yes this is quite interesting in a geeky kind of a way isn’t it.

All we need now is for someone to compare the % of STW’ers with PhDs to that of the populace as a whole and come up with some kind of groovy reflection on what that says about the MTB community. If it helps with the balance of things mine was a social science PhD in a school of management, with some elements of what might now be described as ‘action research’ so whilst I ‘scienced’ it up a bit in places it felt like a massive reflection on the human condition at the time.