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PhD program open for 2024 applications
Round three applications for the Australian government's National Industry PhD Program encouraging research co-design between universities and industry are now…
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Industry & Research
PhD students struggle to find work: study
Universities should review their PhD courses to ensure students gain professional skills and develop a network to help them land…
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Industry & Research
New study analyses the current and future skills needed to complete a PhD – podcast
As of 2019, Australian universities produced about 10 thousand PhD graduates each year, a number that kept growing in the previous 20…
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‘Other people have much more to be proud of’: Australia’s 94-year-old PhD graduate
Dr David Bottomley may look old, but he barely sounds it. Having recently completed his thesis, the 94-year-old now holds…
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Policy & Reform
‘Many…cannot afford to eat’: Poverty-stricken postgrads plea for concessions
Eniola David Ibraheem, the second of four children, hails from Nigeria. He initially studied international law and diplomacy, and worked…
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Industry & Research
New PhD scholarship honours socceroos legend
As the Socceroos prepare for the first game of their fifth World Cup campaign, the foundation named in honour of…
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Policy & Reform
Is the Chief Scientist out of touch with what PhDs want?
"I have no patience for people who tell me that a person with a PhD who starts a company, or…
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Analysis
‘Toxic’ supervisors and isolation sapping students’ mental health
A study of 3,659 PhD students in Flanders, Belgium found that over a third - well above the proportion in comparison…
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News
PhD to PhWe: UniMelb develops postgrad peer support network
'Work smarter, not harder' may be a hackneyed adage, but the University of Melbourne is putting it to use. It…
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Industry & Research
Large ‘hidden job market’ for PhD graduates unearthed
Not all PhDs have an experience as unsavoury as that of Karin Bodewits. However, like her, many have difficulty finding a job…
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Commentary
Fictionalised memoir exposes ‘dubious’ PhD experience in ‘modern, successful university’
I wake to the sound of raindrops tapping on the window of the tiny room in Pollock Halls of Residence.…
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Features
Swinburne PhD brands Timor-Leste
"Selling for good" is not a phrase you often hear in the marketing world, but that's what Sara Currie is doing.…
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Preparation and inspiration
The long, hard road to a PhD can be navigated a little more easily through good planning and a little…
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The changing nature of PhDs
In the act of completion of a PhD, some truths become evident – such as the need to streamline…
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Push to get PhDs into workforce
Universities have to do more to support their doctoral candidates and it can start with giving them a desk and…
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