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Is it time to overhaul the PhD?
Graduate Life / PhD

Is it time to overhaul the PhD?

Posted on September 28, 2015 by David Barner • Leave a comment

Recently I wrote about the dirty little secret in academia: That the majority of PhD students do not end up in faculty positions, but instead work in government, for NGOs, or elsewhere in industry. In that piece, I argued that (1) this situation isn’t entirely new, (2) interpreting it as a type of failure makes assumptions about … Continue reading →

Let’s kill the taboo of industry track PhDs in Psychology
Graduate Life

Let’s kill the taboo of industry track PhDs in Psychology

Posted on September 16, 2015 by David Barner • 8 Comments

Contributed by David Barner By some accounts, there is a dirty little secret in academia, a secret which applies to psychology departments, and most other departments on campus: Most PhD students will not end up on the other side of the desk in tenure track positions, and worse, only the best-of-the-best PhDs, from the best-of-the-best … Continue reading →

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