Practical PhDs: perhaps it’s time.
What's in a PhD? Back when I was in grad school in the late 80s at Oregon State University, the idea of working on a PhD(s) was really about pushing the boundaries of current knowledge into a very, very narrow areas. This means that the person is effectively the sole expert (for a few years) in that very, very narrow space. All those who went through that rigour, the anxieties, the doubts, the mental crises, the massive amounts of work that needed to be put in knowing that the bulk of it […]https://harishpillay.com/2026/02/07/practical-phds-perhaps-its-time/



