PhD through Credential Evaluation?

Do you think the report is good enough to be a dissertation? This is pure speculation on my part, but since it's unpublished, you might just turn it into dissertation. Don't publish it just yet. Instead, pitch the topic to several obscure British universities. Try negotiating shorter program, on grounds that you have already conducted a substantial research. This won't be simple "credential evaluation": more likely than not, you'll end up doing a lot of editing and write bigger lit review (and paying substantial money), but hey, you want a legitimate PhD! UK doctorate, even from a relatively unknown school, will have a substantial prestige.

Again, keep in mind that I might very well not know what I'm talking about. I hope other posters will correct me.

 

Thank you for the suggestion. Can you suggest some "obscure British universities" that may be amenable to such the suggestion?

 

Sorry, I can't. Try to find some ratings and look for the one offering PhDs in your (or related) area, starting from the bottom.

 

The manuscript might serve as the kernel of the research proposal, but any real doctoral program is going to require that the research be supervised, so the original poster would have to start from scratch with what seems to be a very good proposal.

Earning a doctorate is not writing a manuscript but matriculating a doctoral process.

Dave

 

Well, the gist of my speculation is the notion that this, too, can be negotiated. No real university would accept a mill-quality manuscript that way (it's a matter of self-preservation). But I can certainly imagine a case when a doctoral process would just amount to heavy editing. Even more plausible - heavy editing, plus an extensive lit review, plus using an altered theory with the same data.
BTW: might it be possible to try going to Northcentral for this? In this case, however, there's probably no way around taking more classes - and they seem to favor statistical approach.

 

The challenge here is the notion that one could "cash in all their chips" for a Ph.D. Forget about getting credit for past work; that's not a real doctorate.

The best that one could hope for would be to find a sponsor among one of the sources quoted to ascertain if they had any ideas about turning the research into doctoral level work. Another possibility might be to float an abstract to the foreign research doctorate schools in UK, Australia, and South Africa, to generate some interest. If the work that was done is truly doctorate level work, then there should be no trouble in attracting a sponsor or finding a home in one of the research doctorate programs.

Dave

 

We can agree on that.

 

phd by publication

Not everyone agrees with that. SEE this interesting paper by Dr. Steve Draper on PHD's by publication.

http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/resources/phd.html

 

Re: phd by publication

Interesting read, thank you, I can't help but think that the paper supports what I've said a couple times here. That is that a PhD from most all unaccredited institutions do not fulfill a primary requirement.

Without being available to other scholars, it can't reasonably be said that a contribution to knowledge has been made. Very few unaccredited institutions make their dissertations available to other scholars. Kennedy-Western is a good example of the bogus nature of most unaccredited institutions in this regard.