Judy Backhouse

Is a PhD For Me? What Professionals Can Expect From Doctoral Studies (PhD Paths, #1) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

If you are a professional, deciding whether or not to enroll for a PhD can be difficult. It's hard to know what to expect or what will be expected of you. The time and effort required are not clear. Success is uncertain and it's not clear what the benefits are. Worst of all, you won't really know what a PhD entails until you are in the program. Many professionals start a PhD and only then discover that it is not what they wanted.

This book helps you to decide. You will learn what a PhD is, and what it's not. You will get to understand the academic nature of the degree and how that affects the kind of knowledge you will produce in your research. You'll get an idea of what it's like to do a PhD, what the benefits are, and what it takes to succeed. You'll also learn how to make a PhD work for you, as part of a professional career.

This book is for any kind of professional, with a practice outside of the university who already has a master's degree. It will help you if you are undecided about the value doing a PhD. The book is practical and gives you guiding questions that help you apply the information to your own circumstances.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Judy Backhouse
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463010327
• Artikelnr.: 55168770

Autorenporträt

Judy Backhouse is an author of informative, practical books to help people craft good work lives. She uses her experience in academia, professional practice, business, teaching and management to make things simple and accessible.

Judy is a career nomad. She training as a Mathematician, but dropped out of a PhD in Mathematics to pursue a career in Information Technology, working first in technical roles, and then in management. She returned to academia twelve years later as Head of the School of Information Technology at Monash South Africa. She went on to work for eight years in the Department of Information Systems at the University of the Witwatersrand, including a stint as Head of the School of Economic and Business Sciences. She has also worked in the public sector as the Director responsible for monitoring the South African higher education system and advising the Minister of Higher Education at the South African Council on Higher Education.

She completed her PhD on doctoral education and for five years convened the PhD program in Information Systems at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She processed many PhD applications, interviewed many candidates, taught classes to PhD students, sat on panels to review proposals, listened to tales of woe and triumph from doctoral candidates, examined many PhD theses and attended numerous happy graduations. She draws on this experience in her PhD Paths series.

Judy lives in Porto, Portugal.