The phrase "doctorate candidate" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a person who is pursuing a doctoral degree, also known as a doctorate, in a particular field of study. Example: The university had a highly competitive program for doctorate candidates in the field of neuroscience.
A current UC MEXUS-CONACYT fellow is Octavio Narváez-Aroche, a doctorate candidate in his second year, studying mechanical engineering in the Berkeley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory.
Brandon Sample is a former federal prisoner, juris doctorate candidate at Vermont Law School, and the Executive Director of Prisology.
Take it from the researchers themselves: "Because it's not a causal relationship, we can't say which one came first," says Christina Richardson, a UNL doctorate candidate on the team that conducted the study.
The first author and the second author are doctorate candidates.
Science and engineering graduates are top of its list — with doctorate candidates required to have a degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, medical engineering or material engineering.
Specifically, the report says, "[t]he academic career expectations of doctorate candidates need to be managed in ways that recognise that only a tiny proportion of those who undertake PhDs will progress into a career in academia".
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/10/41/prepub BDN is the recipient of scholarships from the Ministère de la Recherche, the Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (France) and the European Council of doctorate candidates and young researchers (Eurodoc).
Many theological doctorate programs require doctoral candidates to complete 4 or 6 semesters of full-time study to fulfill the residency requirement.
Generally, "[t]he preference and orientation of a high proportion of PhD candidates and doctorate holders is towards a career in academia, despite the extraordinary challenges involved in securing a tenured position".
The bride and bridegroom met at Stanford, where the bride is a candidate for a doctorate in African history and where the bridegroom received a doctorate in that subject in 2003.
