Human and social sciences PhDs work at home, alone

09/06-11 kl. 06:28 Research

Photo: University Post The graph above is for all University of Copenhagen international PhD students: Where do you work on your PhD? It covers large differences between human and social science PhDs on the one hand and natural science PhDs on the other

International PhD students in Humanities and Social Sciences spend a large portion of their week working at home, shows survey

by Mike Young

PhDs in the Human and Social Sciences typically spend 6-15 hours a week working at home, away from their assigned office.

This is according to a University Post survey among international PhD students at the University of Copenhagen.

The home-working Human and Social Scientists contrast with the PhD students in the experimental science faculties, which in Copenhagen are the faculties of Life Science, Science, Pharma and Health. PhDs in these faculties typically only work 0-5 hours a week at home.

Home alone

In the case of humanities and social science PhDs, working at home, means working alone:

They spent more than 21 hours of their work week on their own, according to the survey.

This is in marked contrast to the PhDs of the experimental sciences who spend only 6-10 hours working alone, otherwise working closely with colleagues.

Read main article: Human science PhDs have less human contact

miy@adm.ku.dk

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PhD work survey
What did we do?

Our survey was sent out to more than 400 international PhD students at the University of Copenhagen via e-mail lists from the International Staff Mobility Office and was supplemented by several Faculty e-mail lists on our request.

More than 200 PhDs did the survey – with the relative weight of each faculty in our sample corresponding well to real figures.

We received no responses from the Faculty of Theology, which has few international PhDs enrolled.

Help us do better
Feel free to e-mail us suggestions for improvements or new questions for future surveys: uni-avis@adm.ku.dk