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Sigh-Annual appointment with OB
Anne Rogers wrote: And it's not just how the uni in question perceives you. To get funding, particularly NIH, if you haven't been active in research for more than a year, it will be extremely hard to get a grant funded. No grant funding means no research. And what do you do with your lab in the year you're off? Your students, post-docs, etc? If by 'off' you mean, check in every few days, meet with students and post-docs to go over their projects, write papers whilst at home, go in to teach the occassional class, then yeah, it's doable. If by 'off' you mean not step foot in your lab for a year, well, you're very lucky you managed it. Even my colleagues in the UK would argue they'd have a hard time collaborating with someone who was absent from their lab for so long. I think that was part of why my supervisor was so happy for me to have a baby during a phd, he thought that long term that would be better for me and no skin of his nose, Whereas mine would have had a panic attack. When you're doing a PhD, you're working on a specific project that is usually of interest to the PI as well. If you stop the project for a year, how "OK" that would be depends upon the research environment. Stopping it may mean you get scooped - a bad thing for your PI as well as the student. If, OTOH, you're willing to ditch the project entirely and pass it on to someone else, then come back later and start on an entirely new project from scratch, then it could work. This is also a little bit different in how the course of research goes for a US PhD vs. a UK one. Obvioulsy, this is not true for all, I'm speaking from experience of myself and many colleagues in both countries. In the US, a student is more likely to start a prject from scratch, taking a couple of years to develop, lay the ground work, if there's field work involved then setting up the preliminaries. In the UK, a student typically comes on to an already defined already established project, of which they take up one component. As a result, leaving it and passing it along to someone else is a littler easier than it would be in the US. Again, this does indeed vary (I was at a few different US universities and have been involved in 2 UK ones), but I found this generalisation to be mostly true. |
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