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"of graduating PhD students wish to continue to work in academia" I'd be interested in the number who think they want to work in academia at the start of their
by arethuza 6y ago
"of graduating PhD students wish to continue to work in academia"
I'd be interested in the number who think they want to work in academia at the start of their PhD and compare this with the number at the end - I certainly went completely off the idea, not so much because I thought getting a job would be difficult but that I really didn't like what academic research encourages.
Mind you a pyramidal "up or out" structure can be found in areas like law - relatively few lawyers will make partner or even want to take on what that involves.
- T-A 6y agohttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0184130 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
- dijksterhuis 6y agoI probably fall into this camp, as does a close friend of mine. We actually talked about it recently and she mentioned there's a significant percentage of PhDs that don't continue into academia (something like a quarter or a half,can't remember the actual figure). It's a serious enough issue that it's been nicknamed the "PhD brain drain". Essentially, people burn out during the PhD and don't want to go back. Which is fair enough.