[Closed] How many PhDs (or equivalent) on here, then?

Are we having some sort positivist gathering here?

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PhD 2006, Plant cellular and protein biochemistry.

Now lecturer and researcher in same with someone else's thesis sat on my desk for a viva in January. Time flies, big circle of life thingy.

Other half, both her sisters and their partners have PhDs plus her dad is a professor. Family get togethers are a riot.... 😉

PhD 2001
Corporate Environmental Management & Strategy
Spent as much time on GoFar as I did writing up
Spent 10 ish years applying myself but had enough - now I work in the bike industry in a job that has me talking to you lot most days 😀

ART - Member
PhD 2001 Corporate Environmental Management & Strategy

What is this? Ethics related? Green environmental stuff?

SaxonRider - Member
PhD 2008 Intellectual history (late antique/early medieval)

Are you doing interpretation of past events or something? I have no clue.

saxabar - Member
2007 - law, politics and new media technologies

Propaganda by any chance? Via interweb? (I used to work for an IT company with a new media department ... did not even know what they were in those days. Looking back they were going to use it as govt propaganda ...)

GJP - Member
PhD Management Sciences 1991.

Taylorism by any chance?

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Okay you lot are not in the same league so are any of you positivist? Coz you lot are doing some Nancy blouse research there dude!

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2011 - Power electronics...

Mind you, I did start it in about 2000! I guess I was just slow...

PhD 2013 in Water Treatment

PhD
2010
Physical geography: past sea-level change

Just got my first faculty position last week after long postdoc life!

PhD in Environmental Science in 2009. Again, odd how my first cohort of postdocs and PhDs have now completed. It certainly seems circular

Are you doing interpretation of past events or something? I have no clue.

I analysed/interpreted a seventh-century Latin text translated from Greek. If I told you what the text was, specifically, my cover would be blown. 😉

2010: how does stand age or management affect heathland responses to nitrogen deposition, Imperial College London

Distinct lack of arts, theories please*.

* or not, I don't really care, just curious.

Computing science, viva in a few weeks.

SaxonRider - Member

Are you doing interpretation of past events or something? I have no clue.

I analysed/interpreted a seventh-century Latin text translated from Greek. If I told you what the text was, specifically, my cover would be blown.

Interesting but please don't as my head will explode.
I guess I have enough time to evolve to where I am now and the RAM is full. 😆

What's equivalent to a PhD?
Personally I have a masters which was pretty vocational.

Caher - Member
What's equivalent to a PhD?

If you earn more than the average norm and happy as larry with a beautiful family then you have already got your PhD in life experience. Then I salute you Sir! Please give me the formula ...

Personally I have a masters which was pretty vocational.

That's the institutional way of saying give us your money quick while we print out a piece of paper for you in the shortest possible time just to acknowledge your endurance. 😛

PhD in Geochemistry in the 90s and after many years in academia I left and got a real job in industry and am very happy about it

Wow, do you guys use viagra?

I have a London Chamber of Commerce pass with distinction in mental arithmetic. Does that cut it? No I thought not.........
The wife has a PhD in Manta Rays and I feel like I should have got at least a Masters for putting up with it and spending my classic Porsche fund on university fees.

1993
PhD - Dairy Science (local control of milk secretion).
One post-doc in the US.

Now work in industry.

1995. Thrombin inhibition. I was making new small molecule anticoagulants. Small molecule as opposed to the more typical leech spit approach.

2 years post doc in the quantum mechanics of highly constrained molecules.

This thread is inversely proportional to the 'laat thing you made' thread.

Rare to get a PhD and have the physical coordination to actually make anything that doesn't look like a small child has ingested, then vomited up lego.

1986, Statistics

1997 spirooxazines and their merocyanine open form. Photochromics it was fun at the time.

Rare to get a PhD and have the physical coordination to actually make anything that doesn't look like a small child has ingested, then vomited up lego.

Seriously? You actually think that? You must be a troll (with a chip on your shoulder?) 😕

PhD 2012 (actually graduated) Solution structure of hMBD1 CXXC1 domain. I have an interest in the structure and dynamics of chromatin remodeling complexes using biophysics, primarly biomolecular nuclear magnetic resonance. I work in a supermarket picking up the items people order online. Some life choices have not been kind to me ha ha ha ha (its actually family reasons) but I did publish in september and currently writing another paper.

Caher - Member

What's equivalent to a PhD?

a D.Phil lol

There is no equivalent educational qualification but in my field if you have the experience/papers published then you can get the position/same grade of pay.

Can't remember when. Subject was earthquake prediction. You may have noticed that earthquakes are still unpredictable, so I guess I failed 🙁

STarted mine 97 but stopped as i realised a career in academia - which was where my research led- was not somethign that appealed to me.
I do have a post grad qual but no PhD. I dont regret the decision but do occasionally wonder f another subject area would have made a difference, I was good at my subject i was just not that interested in it.

DrJ - Member

Can't remember when. Subject was earthquake prediction.

maybe you should have done Riot prediction, the Kaiser Chiefs only solved that in 2005

maybe you should have done Riot prediction, the Kaiser Chiefs only solved that in 2005

Damn. If I'd got there first they'd have had to reset the clocks.

a D.Phil lol
There is no equivalent educational qualification

1997, Geentics and Biochem (sex-determination in flies), did 2 post-docs before a PGCE and now been a teacher over 10 years.

2002, mathematical modelling of electronic noses!

Similar to others, I now don't remember much of the stuff from that or my maths masters. Probably couldn't pass an A level now!

PhD in Psychology (2004) from QUB.
Still working there....

2007 aeronautical engineering waste of time as I have not worked in that sector since I finished and probably never will again. It's really stressful and under paid!

PhD 2000 Chemistry.

To up the willy waving stakes...I was awarded mine straight after the viva, as I had zero corrections. Published 16 peer review publications on the subject during the course of it, and quite a few more afterwards :-).

16 peer review publications

Final year EngD in Batteries.

Well you'd need to have STW levels of pedantry not to see DEng or DSci or even DLett as being equivalent.

not quite, a DSci is a higher award. I was basing my reply on what you would need for a particular post. In my line of research a DEng isn't an equivalent. A DEng will be industry focused rather than purely research and will have a significant taught part to it. So while they are both doctorates they differ with the PhD being more academical.

Spent 2 years part time working on heat shock protein 90 inhibition in myeloma.
Did my transfer viva and decided after speaking with my supervisors that sticking with my full time job in leukaemia diagnostics would give me a lot more career options since I already had a masters.

Bit of a regret not finishing but I reckon it would have taken another 6 years part time and I didn't have the stomach for that.

Now run one if the largest leukaemia diagnosis labs in Britain so could start again in a couple of years once the kids are a bit older and I would pick a project a lot more relevant to my day job!

Wow some quite interesting subject matter, not gone the academia route myself.

Fair play everyone

Junkyard - lazarus

STarted mine 97 but stopped as i realised a career in academia - which was where my research led- was not somethign that appealed to me.
I do have a post grad qual but no PhD. I dont regret the decision but do occasionally wonder f another subject area would have made a difference, I was good at my subject i was just not that interested in it.

angeldust - Member

PhD 2000 Chemistry.

To up the willy waving stakes...I was awarded mine straight after the viva, as I had zero corrections. Published 16 peer review publications on the subject during the course of it, and quite a few more afterwards :-).

poah - Member
So while they are both doctorates they differ with the PhD being more academical.

alansd1980 - Member
Bit of a regret not finishing but I reckon it would have taken another 6 years part time and I didn't have the stomach for that.
Income comes first if you are not loaded ...

If I were to do one I guess I would research into human logic ... ya ...

angeldust - Member
PhD 2000 Chemistry.

To up the willy waving stakes...I was awarded mine straight after the viva, as I had zero corrections. Published 16 peer review publications on the subject during the course of it, and quite a few more afterwards :-).

97 Palaeoecology stuff in the western isles

In my line of research a DEng isn't an equivalent. A DEng will be industry focused rather than purely research and will have a significant taught part to it. So while they are both doctorates they differ with the PhD being more academical.

This is true. There is a difference between a 'professional' doctorate (of which there are a few, relating to different professions), and an academic doctorate.

Then, among academic doctorates, there are rankings that go back to the middle ages, although not generally regarded except in academic processions.

EDIT: While I'm at it, can I just say how lonely it is so far as the only person on here with a pure humanities-based degree?

Mine (PhD) & the wife (Eng D) in Materials Engineering from Cranfield Uni.... I did do some post doc and lecturing but moved to industry recently