Getting Published In...
A series of talks from publishers and authors on the process of getting published.
No festival is complete without its own fringe event!
Event Details
14:00 - 15:00 26 May, 2016
Building 67/1027, Highfield Campus
What is a PhD for?
‘Traditionally’ the doctorate was pursued by a few people in a select group of institutions, but since the 1980s there has been a dramatic increase worldwide in the number of researchers undertaking doctoral research.
Where the doctorate was once seen as the ‘apprenticeship’ for an academic career, without a corresponding increase in the number of academic posts, the question arises: ‘what is the PhD for’?
Speakers
Dr Russell Bentley , Associate Professor of Political Theory and the University's Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor - Education, and Dr Julie Reeves , Researcher Development Coordinator, Professional Development - ILIaD, will express differing viewpoints on the purpose of the doctorate and discuss the ‘overproduction’ of PhDs.
The discussion will be chaired by Professor James Vickers , Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Doctoral College.
Open to all
We invite postgraduate researchers and their supervisors to join in the discussion and we hope that every PGR will leave this fringe event pondering what they are doing a doctorate for – in the nicest of ways of course!
