Doctor of Philosophy

Thank you for having me, Lee.

So you spent the first part of your career accumulating educational degrees, academic degrees, including a Ph.D. in plant pathology.

Is that correct? Subdiscipline there?

That's better than my parents.

They still say a Ph.D. in tomatoes.

So you remember plant pathology.

Good work.

And this is why your analogy of like a hundred level class rather than a master's degree, like this is exactly right.

Like she's got to get to 200 before we get her into like PhDs.

And you're right.

What Asia and fee and all those like that, that is PhD level work, but you're right.

Just both both of what all three of what all three have said integrates what I'm wanting to integrate.

And so I'm getting my Ph.D. in transpersonal psychology.

Dean Radin is one of my committee members.

And then Roland McCready is my other.

I

have 22 PhDs.

Oh, okay.

74 postgraduates.

Absolutely right.

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And I thought I would like to be part of it.

So I started to pursue my PhD degree.

I initially considered the UK as well, but as we all know, the funding is tight, especially for international students.

And I thought to myself, I would like to get a fully funded PhD place.

So I looked around and I found this fantastic opportunity at the University of Vienna in Austria.

So I moved to University of Vienna, started my PhD, and I would say it was my biggest luck so far, having met my supervisor, because he has really taught me to learn how to be an independent researcher.

He taught me how to be able to shape any research directions, questions I want to, and how to teach, of course.

where I gained my most teaching experience before joining Exeter.

One path takes you into the professional world and the other path takes you on the path that you ultimately chose.

Well, both of my parents had PhDs and some of their parents, so it just seemed like the natural sort of thing to do for their parents.

Do you feel like it was

expected?

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Cara Dunlop is doing a PhD exploring how the UK public understands visual impairment.

Her work is examining the attitudes and stigma that shape everyday interactions and how these can be challenged.

And we're joined today by Cara to learn more.

It sounds great to be able to explore something that has impacted people in your life.

How have you started building a picture of how the public understands vision impairment?

So my PhD is at Northumbria University through the 9DTP.

So it lasts three and a half years and I'm only just going into the second year.

A school doesn't need a data center.

A farmer doesn't need a Ph.D.

They need access.

That doesn't make AI egalitarian.