A young PhD researcher described vividly how PhD students are 'used' to produce peer-reviewed papers and how this threatens scientific integrity and hampers personal development of young researchers.
There is no conformity in the way PhD programmes are organised and there are substantial differences in how PhD students are funded, supervised, and assessed--not only between universities, but also across different academic departments within the same university.
Exactly how PHD and FIH activity is inhibited by hypoxia is unclear.
The reasons, almost certainly, are that universities and principal investigators (PIs) recruit PhD students primarily as cheap labour, ignoring the question of how many PhDs the US needs.
Just how many PhDs does she have?
"When we speak to companies, the first thing they ask is how many PhDs we have," he says.
You see, we at Next Wave are often surprised by how many PhDs we meet who are happily employed in universities and research institutes, and yet who aren't doing the kinds of things we usually think of a PhD as leading to.
But often, what is at the root of this mid-PhD crisis is a lack of understanding about how a PhD is expected to develop -- rather than an inability of a PhD student to develop as a researcher.
The paper probably says something about how economics PhD programmes are taught.
