Why Should You Do A PhD? - career-advice.jobs.ac.uk.
Like their standard PhD counterparts, they usually begin in October or January. While you won't typically be looking to get an academic job, your research is expected to contribute to theory as well as professional practice. Projects often revolve around a real-life issue that affects your employer.
PhD: Anyone who wants to be involved in a more study-based role (e.g., researchers, sociologists, etc.) instead of managing or overseeing others might want to consider a PhD over an EdD. Take someone with an interest in childhood development: A PhD candidate may seek to write papers that inform other educators about how children learn, experiment with new learning technology or change policies.
I have a Ph.D in machine learning and initially did mention it on my email signature and prominently on my LinkedIn profile as I felt it was relevant to my work (data scientist) and a good differentiator. Early on in my job I was advised by a trus.
I'm glad that you're asking this question rather than plunging in. No one can truly answer it for you. However, please remember this: many extremely talented, dedicated PhDs never get full time jobs. The whole PhD system for social sciences and hu.
As far as my situation goes I am nearing 5 months into my phd which I went into straight after completing my research masters (before I had my result even). This may sound like a rushed decision but I really love research and knew that I was doing good work and wanted to keep the ball rolling.
Should you quit your PhD or should you stay? That’s a question we all have once (or millions of times) during our PhDs. It occurs mostly halfway a PhD. It feels like for the last 2 years you haven’t done any progress. If that is true, it means that you only have half of a PhD to come up with all the sound results and to write a thesis.
A computer science PhD offers the chance to become a leading researcher in a highly important field with potential for transformational research. Especially consider it if you want to enter computer science academia or do high-level research in industry and expect to be among the top 30% of PhD candidates.