The unruly PhD
Subtitle: doubts, detours, departures, and other success stories
By: by Rebecca Peabody
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781137373106
Subjects: Doctor of philosophy degree; Doctoral students; Interviews; Attitudes; EDUCATION / Guidance & Orientation; EDUCATION / Higher; EDUCATION / Students & Student Life
Description: "The Unruly PhD is a collection of first-person stories recounted by former graduate students who have successfully reached the other side of a PhD - and are willing to speak frankly about the challenges and decisions they faced along the way. Their stories reveal that many of the difficulties associated with graduate school are institutional rather than personal; that getting sidetracked, detoured and even derailed are the norm, not the exception; and that success is not necessarily tied to the tenure track - or even to completion. Ultimately, The Unruly PhD leaves no doubt that there are as many right ways to get through graduate school as there are students willing to forge their own paths"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: PART I: PHDS IN ACADEMIAEssay 1: DerekEssay 2: JosephineEssay 3: JenniferInterview: Kara CooneySidebar 1: What it Took to Get it DonePART II: PHDS OUTSIDE OF ACADEMIAEssay 1: AnikaEssay 2: GabrielEssay 3: KerryInterview: Peter WellerInterview: Karen KelskySidebar 2: What I Know Now that I Wish I'd Known ThenPART III: PHDS REDIRECTEDEssay 1: RodrigoEssay 2: JasonEssay 3: TonyInterview: Lauren Willig.