PhDs - The SuperNinjas of Knowledge
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In an article in the university paper Khrono, Marija Slavkovik and Knut Risnes turns the assumed skills mismatch of Phds upside down;
"Don’t worry about whether Ph.D. graduates will get jobs; worry about whether the jobs that need them will get Ph.D. graduates. Be concerned that we are producing so few Ph.D.-educated individuals that companies won’t have the opportunity to hire one. Be worried that if all companies suddenly decided to hire them, we wouldn’t have enough to renew our academic environments", they claim.
PhDs as superninjas of knowledge offer valuable skills that both academia and the industry needs, how did we end up discussing if and how their skills are valued?
In collaboration with UiBDoc and the postdoc associations at UiB, we rise to the challenge and invite the authors to elaborate and engage in a lively debate!
Head of Department Marija Slavkovik and research adviser Knut Risnes.
For the panel discussion after the talk, we are happy to invite:
