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Asked by bigjen2 to Eileen, Aggelos on 11 Nov 2012. This question was also asked by chloe246.
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Eileen Diskin answered on 11 Nov 2012:
ME! I’m a Phd student. A PhD is what you do after university, if you feel as though you might want to be a scientist and do research and teach students in a university. It’s a qualification that can allow you to do lots of things, like teaching in a university. After you finish your PhD you’re called a ‘doctor’, but it doesn’t mean like a doctor in a hospital – its a little bit different!)
When you’re a PhD student, it is an awesome opportunity to do three or four years of research in a university on something that you’re REALLY interested in. You get to learn how to do all sorts of things in science, like how to do good research (in a lab or outside doing ‘fieldwork’, depending on what your PhD is). You also learn how to write about it, so other people can learn about what you did.
There are lots of PhD students in all sorts of science subjects, but also in subjects like English, History, basically in just about anything!
Where I am doing my PhD, there are lots of us PhD students. So I have lots of friends, and sometimes we talk about science things but most of the time we just go out and have fun!
Its great craic, really.
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Aggelos Zacharopoulos answered on 12 Nov 2012:
@bigjen2, good question!
A PhD student is somebody who has done his university degree and maybe also a masters degree and has decided to dedicate a further 3 years of his life to studying. You dont have to go to classes but you have to dedicate a lot of your time to reading about the subject of you PhD and then apply that knowledge to something which is innovative and has not been done before. It can be hard but very rewarding.
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