{"id":167,"date":"2009-10-12T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/10\/12\/if-you-loved-writing-and-defending-your-phd-dissertation\/"},"modified":"2009-10-12T08:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T13:00:47","slug":"if-you-loved-writing-and-defending-your-phd-dissertation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/10\/12\/if-you-loved-writing-and-defending-your-phd-dissertation\/","title":{"rendered":"If you loved writing and defending your Ph.D. dissertation,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>then get an academic job in France.\u00a0 They make you write and defend <em>another <\/em>thesis, after the Ph.D.\u00a0 It&#8217;s called the habilitation \u00c3\u00a0 diriger des recherches (HDR), which I guess means &#8220;qualification to direct research.&#8221; As I understand it (i.e., not very well), you need to get it before you&#8217;re allowed to supervise Ph.D. students.\u00a0 My colleague here in Paris just had his today.\u00a0 He&#8217;s actually supervised Ph.D. students before, so it must be possible to get around that requirement, but I guess you need to get this certification to climb the academic ladder.<\/p>\n<p>At first this sounded kind of cruel to me, but actually, I&#8217;d gladly have signed up to write another dissertation rather than go through the tenure process at U.R.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>then get an academic job in France.\u00a0 They make you write and defend another thesis, after the Ph.D.\u00a0 It&#8217;s called the habilitation \u00c3\u00a0 diriger des recherches (HDR), which I guess means &#8220;qualification to direct research.&#8221; As I understand it (i.e., not very well), you need to get it before you&#8217;re allowed to supervise Ph.D. students.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/10\/12\/if-you-loved-writing-and-defending-your-phd-dissertation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If you loved writing and defending your Ph.D. dissertation,<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}