However, after all, many people believe that the doctoral career is still full of glory and hope.
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “Qubit” (ID: QbitAI), the author Chuanshan Da Guo Yi Yi. Authorized to reprint.
Reading Bo has always been a stressful activity. Doctoral students have long working hours, high pressure, and low subsidies. Their peers have already established a family business, and doctoral students are still suffering from papers.
But now, Nature knows your tiredness during the reading process, and Nature knows.
Yes, the top academic journal Nature has launched a large survey of doctoral students. More than 6,000 doctoral students from all over the world took the opportunity to make a lot of pains, research anxiety, job search pressure, and dissatisfaction with the circle. All confided.
Statistics, the data from this survey is very eye-popping:
36% of doctoral students seek help because of anxiety or depression;
21% of Ph.D. students have experienced harassment, discrimination and bullying;
Nearly 80% of doctors believe that the current academic circle is not correct, full of various relationships, privileges and bureaucracy, too squeezing doctoral students, and cultural backwardness needs to be improved.
For the most realistic graduation job search, Dr. Qicheng does not know what to do in the future, and even more than 30% of PhD students feel that the project they are reading is simply not useful for finding a job.
One of the world’s academic circles expects to publish the top journals of the paper, and published such amazing data, it is simply “official persuasion of scientific research”!
No wonder, even the old lady of the landlord said, “Don’t read blog, don’t write code” (don’t gamble, don’t smoke marijuana).
Nearly 40% of doctoral students are overseas Chinese, in-serviceThere are also a lot of people
In fact, this is the fifth PhD student survey of Nature, with more than 6320 valid data.
In addition to the English version, the questionnaire was translated into the four languages of Sino-Portuguese and Western Law, and it has gained wide participation from doctoral students all over the world. 36% of the questionnaires were from Europe, 28% from Asia (mainly Chinese and Indian), 27% from North America and Central America, and only 3% of doctoral students in Africa, South America and Oceania.
The 6,000 doctoral students are basically half male and half female. Most of them are between the ages of 25 and 34. In addition, 12% of doctoral students are less than 25 years old, and 11% of doctoral students exceed At the age of 35, there are even old doctoral students who are fifty or sixty years old.
22% of them are in or on the old, or under the small, need to take care of the family.
Fonseca-Hernández, a doctoral student who has already become a mother, is very anxious about reading Bobian’s baby. Because there is no kindergarten in the school, she sent her 5-year-old daughter to a very expensive off-campus daycare. Center, she lamented that it is too difficult to become a good doctoral student and a good parent at the same time.
37% of doctoral students go abroad to study, most of them go to Europe and the United States, and the reasons for going abroad are concentrated on experiencing exotic cultures, insufficient funds and doctoral programs in the country, and easy access to work.
However, there are quite a lot of pressure from the overseas party. A Cuban girl studying meteorology went to Mexico to study for a Ph.D. in marine physics and found that it is very difficult to change a country. Read a new one.The field is even more difficult, and even suffering from anxiety.
19% of Ph.D. students work at Bentham. They mainly want to support their families, and a few people are trying to improve their skills or brush their resumes. Considering the age and family environment factors, older doctoral students over the age of 35, and those who have small and old doctors basically have jobs.
European doctoral students are worried that “German does not match”, and doctoral students in Asia and Africa are the most likely to seek employment to make money
In the process of reading blogs, the most common headache is the confusion of the future. 79% of doctoral students are uncertain about their career prospects. 70% of doctoral students are always concerned about being a postdoctoral. Where can I go to find a teaching position?
In addition, their academic pressure is also very high, 78% of doctoral students feel that it is difficult to maintain a balance of work and life, 74% of doctoral students can not complete their studies within the specified time.
Money is also a problem. The first aspect is the issue of research funding. 68% of doctoral students are worried about funding. In the second aspect, half of the doctoral students are worried about how their student loans will be paid. The third aspect is the income of future careers. The problem is that 67% of doctoral students are worried about where to live after graduation, where to buy a house, raise a child, and retired.
The doctoral students are also crying poorly, and the slag is psychologically balanced.
However, these worrying issues are also regional:
African doctoral students have no money at all;
Oceanian doctoral students are the most faculty;
The doctoral students in South America are worried about finding a job, but also have to sell their white powder and always worry about the political situation;
European doctoral students worry about their relationship with their boss, work-life balance and mental health issues;
Ph.D. students in North America and Central America are worried that they are “not compatible”, and the professional term is “impersonation syndrome” – they always feel that their status is obtained by luck, for fear that one day they will find themselves The director was treated as a liar and then lost his name. Of course, Europeans who are equally rich (po) and (le) eu (de) are sometimes worried about this problem;
The Asian doctoral student of bitter haha, the place where you can worry is more: how to do it without finding a job, how to do it without earning money, how to do the doctoral inflation, what to do with the old father and mother in the family… Note that this is not an sale of anxiety, is a report of nature on a black backgroundwritten.
Hey, the Asian readers here, you all live in hard mode.
No regrets, but satisfaction is getting lower and lower
Radhakrishnan, who is a veterinarian in the United States, said that the current Ph.D. program is very suitable for himself and does not feel lonely.
He has a deep interest in his research projects and wants to find a way to suppress the spread of rabies in his home country, India.
So, even if you read the blog while taking the child, there is no leisure, he still has no regrets to read Bo.
In fact, 74% of doctoral students in this survey are as satisfied with his decision to read Bo (the following two green columns):
There are 75% of Ph.D. students who are satisfied with the degree of independence of their research.
67% expressed satisfaction with the relationship between themselves and their mentor.
However, even if you are satisfied, there are still feelings of setbacks and complaints.
45% of PhD students said that as time went by and the project progressed, the level of satisfaction declined. In contrast, 42% believe that satisfaction has improved.
