The exact alchemy by which so much economic lead is turned into political gold will preoccupy future PhD theses and coalition biographies; but, on a day filled with as much hot air as this one, let me just point out that it goes on.
Extending this to the realm of entrepreneurship might be a leap (and it could be great fodder for a future PhD dissertation).
The five categories may be elements in future PhD supervisor training programs and should be further evaluated for their importance and impact on PhD education.
In the same way, it is assumed that scientific results in the shape of a research project and scientific publications should be able to be included in any future PhD.
The authors thank the funding support provided by Alberta Livestock Meat Agency (2010R033R), Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions (2010F110R) for LL Guan, and Alberta Innovates Technology Futures PhD student scholarship for JM Romao.
Facing job market fears, low adjunct pay, crushing workloads, debt and uncertain futures, some PhD students are exhausted, poor and miserable.
"You get a couple years into your PhD and you begin to wonder what else is out there," recounts Seredick on his initial thoughts about his post-PhD future.
And we want to train people with a good range of skills so they can produce good PhDs for the future at LSE and Imperial.
When you decide, as I did a couple of years into my PhD, that your future doesn't lie in the lab, getting to where you do want to be can seem hard.
We have demonstrated GP can automatically explore around current implementations, nevertheless we hope future software designers, implementers and PhD students, will have tools which can explore potential trade-offs before implementation starts [ 21].
