So, in light of [url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/phd-university-lecturing ]this thread[/url], 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.
Dr rkr - computational chemistry
Oh a fellow geeky chemist 😉 What was your thesis title?
Dr Aidan - Computer Science
But I left the cube farm behind.
😈 Irrelevant stuff me.
Dr Munqe-chick (esq) something to do with material science catalysts. Something I clearly don't understand!! Mrs MC just a BA Hons...arts though
Dr Nutt, Advanced Truancy and Wayward Nature
Dr andy_hew here. PhD in Geography (Political/Economic). Did a couple of years post docs before getting fed up with short-term contracts. Joined local government to get some long term financial security ... 😯
I'm a relative thicky only a Masters Degree in communications. But I married a PhD in Immunology, which I think is better cos its allowed me to retire at 40 🙂
To add to mema, I get a lot of fuuny looks when I say its Mr and Dr, everyone assumes I bat the other way.
Zokes
"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..."
I think the PhD/DPhil drs are the real ones and the medical drs nicked the term. Well that's what my Headmaster said. Guess what doctorate he had!
DrRS****
As for what my PhD is in is best left unwritten......
Dr r0bh, High Energy Physics
i.e. that big thing in France/Switzerland that spins particles round very quickly then smashes them together.
Dr CharlieMungus - Fluid Mechanics and Flow Visualisation, reporting for duty, Sir!
I think the PhD/DPhil drs are the real ones and the medical drs nicked the term. Well that's what my Headmaster said. Guess what doctorate he had!
Well, when the medics change jobs, they stop being doctors, the rest of us are doctors even when we become unemployed.
Dr Coffeeking - Robotics/EEE - defected after my more mech-eng related MEng!
MEng atm, but i'll be starting a PhD on Ti-processing soon 🙂 I'm surprised to see few Material Engineering types... for all this talk over steel, Ti, alu and cabrone frames...
Dr R. Gasket
Operational Research (Lancaster)
Well, when the medics change jobs, they stop being doctors, the rest of us are doctors even when we become unemployed.
To 99.9% of the population out there we are PhDs and medics are doctors. To argue it any other way is pointless.
(Almost) Dr LabMonkey - exercise physiology
Dr CaptJon, Phd in economic geography (nods head at Dr andy_hew). Currently a lecturer.
Incidentally, i had a maths teach called Dr Captain.
Yes, well of course Ph.Ds are much easier to come by nowadays. The only ones worth anything will have been those achieved in the last millennium. The were much harder in the old days.
[]Dr CaptJon, Phd in economic geography (nods head at Dr andy_hew)
Where did you do your PhD and where are you lecturing Dr CaptJon?
Dr Darrell, Ph.D in Geochemistry
Dr. STL Chemistry with emphasis in Biochem.
Dr Foster, PhD in walking into surprisingly deep puddles.
Chortle
Dr NDT, analytical chemistry. Left that behind me now, but I do miss tinkering with the big noisy mass spectrometers sometimes.
With a [s]bit[/s] lot of luck and a tailwind i'll be dr finbar by May. Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction - i'm looking at the physical environments modern human behaviour originated in.
It's reassuring so many of you have actually finished the bl00dy things!
Well prepare yourself for the post PhD blues 😉
To be fair I think so far my PhD years were the best 3 years of my life. I discovered another country, another culture, plenty of new people, singlespeeding and I did some pretty stupid things too.
Not that my PhD is helping me in feeling the fridge in anyway...
Very nearly Dr Slunk (submitting next week, all being well) - wastewater chemical engineering. It's been lovely.
Yes, well of course Ph.Ds are much easier to come by nowadays. The only ones worth anything will have been those achieved in the last millennium. The were much harder in the old days
Nah, think of all that extra knowledge that has to be incorporated and read up on - the earlier the PhD the less difficult to do something new and exciting.... 😆
There is someone on here (I can't remember who), has a PhD, and/or does research into the beer goggle effect. I jest you not!
yup what coffeeking says 😉
In my field in the time where you use to pay the same as an house for a computer you only had an handful of different method.
Nowadays from the top of my head you have
Docking (rigid, flexi, semi flexi and split)
MD (Umbrella sampling, SA, REMD, RETI, TI-REX and other exotic method)
MC (same as above RETI REMC, FEDTI plus all the different sampling method)
You have basillion of basis set for QM
QM/MM
Coarse grain (once again with all different integrator and variation)
And I am damn sure I forgot some 😉
If you're reading this thinking 'what's a PDH?' and 'where do I live?' - I'm bringing the average intelligence quota down with you.
I say my PhD was plant community ecology, but really it was about cowshite and hay meadows
Juan - rigid docking?
can I chip in for starting but not completing mine ...I did get a lot of research done in that week though
A_A I always knew you talked a load of manure I just never knew to what level
Dr Baronspudulike, material sciences/radio-chemistry, currently working away in a related industry after a short while post-doc'ing. Still don't know anything it’s just people think you do with less persuasion now.
Dr P, but we already have one of these on STW, so I guess it has to be Dr GJP.
PhD Management Sciences - Loughborough University of Technology
Dr Skippy - Genetics, seem to be the only one so far but a lot of scientists...
Dr Digiphotoneil of obscure uses of electrical generators...
Dr JonM Invertebrate Cryobiology.
Working part-time and doing PhD is no fun at all so unless you have a strong desire to do a PhD, I think it's a waste of time as the return you are going to get might not worth all the effort you put in.
Want to become a lceturer? You need to publish (in 3 star journals and not those journals your circle of friends created) and on top of that you must bring in "funding" for your department otherwise you will jumping from one institution to another forever ...
Worst case the job depends on funding and there is no certainty when the fund will dry up but it will eventually.
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