Do You Want Your PhD Now?: The PhD Student's Stratagem Having trouble with your supervisors? PhD not on track? Did your research give back negative results? Are you getting no good advice? Dr. John Hockey demystifies the PhD process, giving a very clear outline of what it is and what it contains. He then delves into the plethora of problems that arise during the PhD process, and how to overcome them. He discloses the biggest problem of the PhD process and how it reduces PhD students to work-horses, and how all of the subsequent problems can be drawn back to it. These problems include the average completion rate being a lowly 15%, and the average time-to-completion being 8.2 years. Supervisors and advisors don't want you to finish, they want you to work more. Understanding how their political tactics work is the first step to overcoming them. John goes further and explains how to turn it back on them and gain control of your PhD. John got his PhD despite his advisors not wanting him to. The problems with the PhD process mainly arise from the politics involved, which unfortunately, you're part of whether you know it or not, whether you realize it or not, and most of all, whether you like it or not. The only way around that is to understand the game and understand how to play it. That is what Dr. John Hockey details in this book. Dr. John Hockey has been involved with the PhD process for almost 20 years, from hopeful applicant, to PhD student, to recent graduate, to having his own PhD students, to designing PhD programs. He was able to do so by understanding the PhD system and academia. Since finishing his PhD, he has worked around the world at internationally acclaimed Universities. He has had PhD students from all different countries, and backgrounds, and successfully advised them to completion. |
