Reimagining the PhD

Re:Reimagining the PhD by thomasahle on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:25AM (#21779987)

Cambridge awarded Aubrey de Grey a PhD in biology based on his book on the mitochondrial theory of aging.

Both Cambridge and Oxford will consider works of their former undergraduates for PhD's, and arrange formal defences.

This seems like an entirely fair system. Some people end up doing real research without having participated in a PhD program, and it seems natural to then let them defend that as a thesis.

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Re:Reimagining the PhD by kwhitefoot on Friday December 13, 2019 @10:46AM (#21782533)

As far as I can tell a European, and more specifically UK, PhD is a rather different animal than a US PhD. Much shorter elapsed time for a start.

I suspect that most people commenting are assuming that the system they are most familiar with is universal, including the author of the article.

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Re:Reimagining the PhD by dewy on Friday December 13, 2019 @08:12AM (#21781204)

And Martin Kleppman got his PhD based in part on Designing Data Intensive Applications.

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Re:Reimagining the PhD by ISL on Friday December 13, 2019 @05:26AM (#21780511)

That is very cool -- I've not seen that done before, but done right, it is a wonderful idea.

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