Schneider at UCSD : konstanz phd
Fouka at Stanford: Barcelona phd
Can a European PhD publish their way an R1 in the US in IR?
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I’ve been offered positions at top Eu/Uk schools but have stayed in a low ranked US R1. Seems crazy but the quality of academic life (especially salary) is substantially better in the US, especially if you keep strong links to Europe. I do fear that this crises will erase that advantage except for the most elite schools
Sounds about right. Most, UK schools pay between 37k to 49k, which is regulated by the government. This will barely get you accommodation, and a decent living. In expensive places like London I know faculty members well into their 30s early 40s in flatshares (yes you read it correctly). Some schools will pay more, but is very rare. Most UK schools lose faculty as soon as they can find other jobs in other countries where they can live decently (look at Essex, it is a revolving door). Pound falling, and Brexit won´t help. Also there has been a recent tendency to hire "faculty" in temporary contracts, UCL is now hiring "faculty" on 4 months contracts. Clearly they recruit the best with this model, and students which pay thousands of GBP, get the best of attending UCL.
Some faculty are good enough to make to the US where salaries are way better. Some of the names mentioned in this post were able to escape UK and into the US.
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I’ve been offered positions at top Eu/Uk schools but have stayed in a low ranked US R1. Seems crazy but the quality of academic life (especially salary) is substantially better in the US, especially if you keep strong links to Europe. I do fear that this crises will erase that advantage except for the most elite schools
Sounds about right. Most, UK schools pay between 37k to 49k, which is regulated by the government. This will barely get you accommodation, and a decent living. In expensive places like London I know faculty members well into their 30s early 40s in flatshares (yes you read it correctly). Some schools will pay more, but is very rare. Most UK schools lose faculty as soon as they can find other jobs in other countries where they can live decently (look at Essex, it is a revolving door). Pound falling, and Brexit won´t help. Also there has been a recent tendency to hire "faculty" in temporary contracts, UCL is now hiring "faculty" on 4 months contracts. Clearly they recruit the best with this model, and students which pay thousands of GBP, get the best of attending UCL.
Some faculty are good enough to make to the US where salaries are way better. Some of the names mentioned in this post were able to escape UK and into the US.This all sounds about right to me. I believe the government scales don't apply at the full level, which explains how Oxford and LSE and a few others can be competitive at the very top. But at the lecturer level, it's rough.
It's a shame, if only one of the US or the UK was less messed up, they could poach quite easily from the other. Too bad the two chose to go down the crazy path.
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UK PhD here in the US. There are certain things that you need to check to get a R1 job with a PhD from UK/Europe. The odds are long and it may get longer in the post-covid market.
1. PhD from a department that R1 faculty members respect. It's an idiosyncratic list but possibly includes Oxford, LSE, Essex, Aarhus, Gothenburg, Leiden, Amsterdam, Konstanz, Mannheim, ETH Zurich. Doesn't mean you won't get a job with a PhD from Glasgow or Milan but the odds are the same as someone with a PhD from Ole Miss or Kansas. See the placements in the last decade and almost everyone (R1 or not) from Europe/UK come from these institutions.
2. Multiple publications, with at least one in a top subfield journal.
3. Have a research agenda with multiple projects in the pipeline that has people in the discipline talking about you.
4. The ^ means networking. Have a supervisor who's influential and well-connected to the disciplinary community in the US and #2 might not be a big factor.
5. And this is the easiest and most-frequented route to a R1 job. Get a postdoc from a R1 US institution. -
UK PhD here in the US. There are certain things that you need to check to get a R1 job with a PhD from UK/Europe. The odds are long and it may get longer in the post-covid market.
1. PhD from a department that R1 faculty members respect. It's an idiosyncratic list but possibly includes Oxford, LSE, Essex, Aarhus, Gothenburg, Leiden, Amsterdam, Konstanz, Mannheim, ETH Zurich. Doesn't mean you won't get a job with a PhD from Glasgow or Milan but the odds are the same as someone with a PhD from Ole Miss or Kansas. See the placements in the last decade and almost everyone (R1 or not) from Europe/UK come from these institutions.
2. Multiple publications, with at least one in a top subfield journal.
3. Have a research agenda with multiple projects in the pipeline that has people in the discipline talking about you.
4. The ^ means networking. Have a supervisor who's influential and well-connected to the disciplinary community in the US and #2 might not be a big factor.
5. And this is the easiest and most-frequented route to a R1 job. Get a postdoc from a R1 US institution.pathetic essex graduate detected
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UK PhD here in the US. There are certain things that you need to check to get a R1 job with a PhD from UK/Europe. The odds are long and it may get longer in the post-covid market.
1. PhD from a department that R1 faculty members respect. It's an idiosyncratic list but possibly includes Oxford, LSE, Essex, Aarhus, Gothenburg, Leiden, Amsterdam, Konstanz, Mannheim, ETH Zurich. Doesn't mean you won't get a job with a PhD from Glasgow or Milan but the odds are the same as someone with a PhD from Ole Miss or Kansas. See the placements in the last decade and almost everyone (R1 or not) from Europe/UK come from these institutions.
2. Multiple publications, with at least one in a top subfield journal.
3. Have a research agenda with multiple projects in the pipeline that has people in the discipline talking about you.
4. The ^ means networking. Have a supervisor who's influential and well-connected to the disciplinary community in the US and #2 might not be a big factor.
5. And this is the easiest and most-frequented route to a R1 job. Get a postdoc from a R1 US institution.pathetic essex graduate detected
LOL !!!
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UK PhD here in the US. There are certain things that you need to check to get a R1 job with a PhD from UK/Europe. The odds are long and it may get longer in the post-covid market.
1. PhD from a department that R1 faculty members respect. It's an idiosyncratic list but possibly includes Oxford, LSE, Essex, Aarhus, Gothenburg, Leiden, Amsterdam, Konstanz, Mannheim, ETH Zurich. Doesn't mean you won't get a job with a PhD from Glasgow or Milan but the odds are the same as someone with a PhD from Ole Miss or Kansas. See the placements in the last decade and almost everyone (R1 or not) from Europe/UK come from these institutions.
2. Multiple publications, with at least one in a top subfield journal.
3. Have a research agenda with multiple projects in the pipeline that has people in the discipline talking about you.
4. The ^ means networking. Have a supervisor who's influential and well-connected to the disciplinary community in the US and #2 might not be a big factor.
5. And this is the easiest and most-frequented route to a R1 job. Get a postdoc from a R1 US institution.Essex? Whatever you inhale, you better dump it fast.