I’ve only got a masters, so I feel a bit like this.

🙂

I had noticed a worrying large number of folks who can actually spell on this site. Never realised there were so many ‘proper job’ dodgers about though…

(5 year) PhD in Phylogenetics/Conservation biology (very few other biologists around???) currently earning below national average wage, yay.

The certificate says ‘Behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology’. In other words, I’m a fish behaviour doctor.

Dr of semiconductor lasers here

Is anyone keeping a count?

With all these PhDs you’d hope that someone could count…

I’m just about to submit my Ph.D thesis, on fish physiology, so I hope to be a Dr. in the new year.
Chickadee I’d be interested in finding out more about fish behaviour as anythng fish related seems to be a bit ‘specialist’.

Is anyone keeping a count?

Not counting exactly, but I think that is at least 60 of us so far qualified, with a few more nearly qualified. It’d be interesting to know what the total number of STWers is and then we can see what percentage of us are have Ph.Ds. I imagine it is a pretty tiny percentage though.

I am just about to receive my masters degree. I was looking into applying for a PhD, but my supervisor suggested against it and that I should just crack on and write a book instead, which I have done and am now looking for publishers. Although I have been told I am on course for a distinction, given that my dissertation was on the world’s strongest hallucinogens, I am having to keep quiet about it in job applications 🙂

I’m seriously considering quitting mine (1 year in) as it bores me to death and I can see no prospect of publishing anything…

I’m very impressed by the number of people on here who’ve finished though, well done!

Dr here, Genetics now working in Neuroscience.

Although my sister still thinks I’m not a real Dr…

I only have one degree, and it’s (evidently) not a doctorate.

I have, however, had the honour (or something like that) to fund Dr North’s fourth* year when she was writing up.

Tho’ she works in a university, she doesn’t actually use what she did her doctorate in (Bioinformatics – that’s as close as I get to understanding it).

I’d happily do one, but (1) funding for social sciences isn’t exactly forthcoming right now (2) no idea what I’d then do (3) I have a short attention span, and doctorates are all about being able to stick at it.

*Her supervisor still doesn’t understand why her candidates can’t get the whole thing done, handed in and awarded in under two years like she did.

*Her supervisor still doesn’t understand why her candidates can’t get the whole thing done, handed in and awarded in under two years like she did.

you’re not allowed to

Perhaps the need for a PhD STW group ride! Although when I was managing the uni staff football team which consisted of profs, lecturers and post-docs I used to quip that we never made a decisive pass as we were much more prone to discuss the theoretical implications the pass may or may not have had. Perhaps a similar thing is likely to happen with route choice with 60 PhD graduates

andy_hew – Member
Perhaps the need for a PhD STW group ride!

Make it South Wales after Christmas, and I’m in.

you’re not allowed to

You can do it in two and a little bit, but there tends to need to be a special process.

Average in my dept. was something like 4.2 years though…

Dr SSBonty, Evolutionary Biology, married to Dr SSBonty (nee Ms SSBonty, well obviously not but you get the picture), also Evolutionary Biology. We shared an office at the start of my first postdoc (she was writing up), things are a little easier now she is on the other campus! Am now working more on the developmental part of Evolutionary and Developmental biology…

well obviously not now as I’m slacking on STW but you knew what I meant…

Dr Jones here… PhD in Plant Ecology.

After an 11 month stint without a job I am finally working part-time as a Lab Technician on £10k a year. Woop! Happy daze… 😀

Dr Andy – Nanocomposite materials (passed viva last month)