PhD students should exploit their industry links, report urges
Darragh O’Keeffe, The Australian
Universities should examine the barriers preventing more PhD candidates from using their professional experience and contacts in the funding and supervision of their research, according to a major study.
About 80 per cent of the 3700 PhD candidates surveyed by researchers at the LH Martin Institute had prior professional experience, yet engagement with organisations outside their university was found to be a “minority activity”.
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Natasha Abrahams, national president of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations, said PhD candidates were generally interested in engagement opportunities but time and financial constraints limited the extent to which they could seek them out.
