Solo Session: Bridging Humanities and STEM PhDs

Hello students and graduates, welcome to PhD Lounge, the podcast of late night talks in which PhDs have a drink and talk about their research topics, humanities and STEM. 2 long standing and bittersweet fields with different advantages in the course of society, yet they're totally inseparable. PhDs in humanities and STEM are two synergies where candidates from both fields can have a good laugh about their research or share their accomplishments by sharing them at pubs, conferences and seminars. Their doctoral application and written dissertation systems are incredibly different. A STEM PhD is about lab research generally with a pre designed project where the leading team. We'll evaluate your groundbreaking discoveries, negative and positive experiments, data reports, research posters and a written dissertation between 30 to 50K plus words. A humanities PhD, on the other hand, encompasses a research project proposal around 2500 to 3000 words, a three plus year dissertation that has a maximum of 100K or although quite rare, 120 K words, and lots of public speaking and conferences. Despite these differences, have you thought about any similarities in PhD Humanities and STEM? In this late night session, I highlight three comparable points for PhDs in Humanities and STEM. 1 funding. In STEM, funding is likely to be attributed due to the project's specifics, whereas in humanities, APHD student may have to apply for it separately from the research, competing against others in order to be awarded and taking into account the current financial cuts. But regardless, PhD funding in both fields has quite a similar outcome. That is, you may be eligible for a grant application through UKRI, for example, to support your humanities and SEM research subject, or you can apply to student loans like myself, in which the process is straightforward. 2 Skill sets Throughout your humanities and STEM pH DS, you'll develop important skills from project and time management to honing critical thinking and mastering academic writing. Both fields are structured for you to write your arguments and research results, allowing you to develop these transferable skills regularly. When you sit down and start writing complex analysis and chapter drafts and the time constraints across your dissertation. And three, enter the disciplinary methodologies. PhDs still borrow humanities and STEM research methodologies for their dissertations. This is a positive movement from PhDs because it helps to bridge their connections for potential innovation. For example, you can find dissertations in digital humanities where Python was applied or the transdisciplinary research area of biomolecular humanities to study evolutionary DNA by researching the history of human evolution, which provides valuable context to STEM case studies on Human Genetics. The union of humanities and STEM is so strong. It's all down to stereotypes, historical divisions, and the great work that has been done to bridge the gaps between them. PhDs of both fields, despite their differences in approach to their topics, still rely on interdisciplinary methodologies that help the world progress, and it keeps becoming more relevant when casual research, pubs, conferences, and festivals join both synergetic fields to conceptualize the PhD as a universal degree. Thank you all for tuning in, it has been a pleasure.