Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A research assistant at a university medical centre with a master's degree, planning to apply for PhD entry in 18 months
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
An undergraduate intern doing a 10-week summer placement is not a pre-doctoral researcher in the substantive sense
Editorial commentary
Common in life sciences and computing as a transition between bachelor’s/master’s and doctoral entry. NIH F31-equivalent pre-doctoral fellowships also fall under this category. Pre-doctoral research experience increasingly counts toward narrative-CV records of research development.
References
- NIH F31 Pre-doctoral Fellowship guidelines
- Vitae Researcher Development Framework
Also known as
Pre-PhD researcher · Pre-doctoral fellow
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
xml
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