Is a PhD For Me? What Professionals Can Expect From Doctoral Studies - PhD Paths, #1

Biographie de Judy Backhouse

Judy Backhouse is an author of informative, practical books to help people craft good work lives. She uses her experience in academia, professional practice, business, teaching and management to make things simple and accessible. Judy is a career nomad. She training as a Mathematician, but dropped out of a PhD in Mathematics to pursue a career in Information Technology, working first in technical roles, and then in management.
She returned to academia twelve years later as Head of the School of Information Technology at Monash South Africa. She went on to work for eight years in the Department of Information Systems at the University of the Witwatersrand, including a stint as Head of the School of Economic and Business Sciences. She has also worked in the public sector as the Director responsible for monitoring the South African higher education system and advising the Minister of Higher Education at the South African Council on Higher Education.
She completed her PhD on doctoral education and for five years convened the PhD program in Information Systems at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She processed many PhD applications, interviewed many candidates, taught classes to PhD students, sat on panels to review proposals, listened to tales of woe and triumph from doctoral candidates, examined many PhD theses and attended numerous happy graduations.
She draws on this experience in her PhD Paths series. Judy lives in Porto, Portugal.