PhD while having a job in academia.

[MathematicalPhysicist]

I am just looking to see if anyone knows people who have an academic job (as lecturers and/or researchers) and who have continued learning for another PhD (maybe part time) in another field in the same university?

Is this even allowed while you work at that university?

I am just wondering.

Thanks in advance. (yes it does seem to be masochistic :-)).

 

[fss]

I think you are talking about "graduate students."

 

[discrete*]

I think you are talking about "graduate students."

 

[MathematicalPhysicist]

I think you are talking about "graduate students."

Ok, I will refine my query.

People who have a job in academia which pays more than a "grad-student stipends", and do another PhD?

 

[fss]

People who have a job in academia which pays more than a "grad-student stipends", and do another PhD?

I know several working professionals that do/have done part-time classes (usually via distance learning) to earn their PhD.

 

[MathematicalPhysicist]

What do they work in?
And in what field is their latter PhDs?

 

[fss]

History, Information Systems, English, Computer Science, Information Assurance, a few others I can't remember.

 

[eri]

I knew a few people who took an instructor/lecturer position while in grad school, but they never ended up finishing their PhDs even though they intended to (there were in physics and astronomy). It might seem like a good idea at the time (experience, more pay) but they can really get in the way.

 

[story645]

I am just looking to see if anyone knows people who have an academic job (as lecturers and/or researchers) and who have continued learning for another PhD (maybe part time) in another field in the same university?

I knew someone who had a phd from a foreign country and was a grad student in a different field in the states, but he was bound to all the same regulations as a grad student without a phd (so he couldn't teach certain classes, lower pay rate, etc.) Every school is different about what they allow and what they don't.

 

[Jack21222]

My community college general physics professor was a grad student AND lecturer at the nearby university, UMBC. He had a master's degree in electrical engineering and was a practicing EE for years before deciding to go to the Ph.D. program.

I imagine he's still working on the Ph.D, as it's only been a year since I last had him for a class.

 

[Llewlyn]

I am just looking to see if anyone knows people who have an academic job (as lecturers and/or researchers) and who have continued learning for another PhD (maybe part time) in another field in the same university?

Yes, I know a professor of Biology in a British university who decided to get another PhD about complex system in another country. Whether for sake of knowledge or not, he did.

Ll.