The phrase "my doctoral studies" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a student's pursuit of a doctoral degree, or the advanced studies and research involved in obtaining such a degree. Example: "After completing my undergraduate studies, I decided to focus on my doctoral studies in psychology."
After being undocumented for much of my childhood in the US, I'd been granted F-1 student visa status to pursue my doctoral studies at Stanford.
I conducted some cursory research, but was unable to break the cipher before finishing my degree and heading to Texas A&M University for my doctoral studies.
I hadn't lost touch with skateboarding either – after starting my doctoral studies in Los Angeles (drawn, more than I should admit, by its sunshine and skateboard history), I later wrote a rather theoretically informed book on skateboarding (Skateboarding, Space and the City, 2001), and have developed a career as an academic historian from this basis.
During my doctoral studies at this university, I received a call from Dr. Haddad, my undergraduate professor.
When I completed my doctoral studies at the University of Birmingham, I planned to pursue a career in industrial research.
Very soon after I started my doctoral studies, I found myself between a rock and a hard place.
I have plenty of publications from my doctoral study.
When I started my doctoral study in the U.S., my wife expected me to play more active roles in my child's learning and schooling like American fathers.
It is my two decades-old love of hip-hop that presently fuels my doctoral study on the contextualization of hip-hop spirituality for the church.
I was asked to give a talk to incoming graduate students, imparting my top 10 tips on getting through the PhD process, and that got me thinking about how much the process had changed since I started my own doctoral studies.
I went on to earn my doctorate with honors at Colorado Technical University and completed my post-doctoral studies at Tulane and University of Maryland.
