• Question: What do you have do to get a PhD

    Asked by ellie_legend_7 to Peter on 17 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Peter Boorman

      Peter Boorman answered on 17 Nov 2016:

      Hi Ellie,

      In the UK, typically you have to spend just over 3 years researching a particular area of science that no-one else has studied before, and at the end you have to produce a long (the length of a book!) study into what you were researching. Then a few people read the book, and decide whether or not you should become a Doctor, and give a ‘viva’ where the ask you questions on the specific things you wrote!

      Peter

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