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 \nLynn McAlpine  \nMcGill University, University of Oxford  \nNichole Austin McGill University  \nAbstract  \nNational and international statistics show that across disciplines there are many more PhD graduates than academic positions. In fact, more than half of graduates find their careers outside the academy—though the kinds of positions they accept, their work satisfaction, and the relevance of their PhDsis much less clear. As regards scholarly studies on post-PhD careers, most have examined social scientists and scientists with little attention to humanities doctoral graduates. This study addresses this gap by exploring the career experiences of Canadian PhD humanities graduates through descriptive statistics and narrative analysis. Specifically, it highlights the PhD experiencesand post-graduation career trajectories of 212 Canadian humanists from 24 universities who graduated between 2004 and 2014. The study offers insight into humanities career challenges, including during the PhD, the range of non-academic careers that humanists find, as well as their work satisfaction and the perceived relevance of the PhD.  \nRésumé  \nTant sur le plan national qu’international, les statistiques montrent que lenombre de détenteurs de doctorat demeure nettement supérieur au nombrede postes académiques disponibles, et ce, toutes disciplines confondues.  \nAlors qu’on observe que plus de la moitié des détenteurs de doctorat seretrouvent dans une carrière non académique, on en sait peu sur le type de postes qu’ils acceptent, leur satisfaction au travail et l’utilité de leur doctorat.  \nLa plupart des recherches menées jusqu’ici sur la carrière des détenteurs  \nCJHE / RCES Volume 48, No. 2, 2018  \nDesperately Seeking ... / L. McAlpine & N. Austin 2  \nde doctorat concernent les sciences sociales ou les sciences exactes, laissant généralement dans l’ombre le champ des Humanités. La présente étude aborde précisément l’expérience de carrière de détenteurs de doctorat dans ce champ en s’appuyant sur des statistiques descriptives et des analyses narratives. Plus particulièrement, il est question de l’expérience doctorale et du parcours de carrière postdoctoral de 212 détenteurs de doctorat dans le champ des Humanités ayant diplômé entre 2004 et 2014 dans 24 universitéscanadiennes. La présente étude offre un aperçu des enjeux propres à la carrière dans les Humanités, incluant les défis rencontrés durant les études doctorales, la variété de carrières non académiques dans lesquelles seretrouvent les détenteurs de doctorat ainsi que leur satisfaction au travail et leur perception de l’utilité de leur doctorat.  \nContext  \nReports of the experiences of humanities doctoral students are relatively rare (Leonard, Metcalfe, Becker, & Evans, 2006). Further, studies of post-PhD career-related experience, regardless of discipline, are also rare (Kyvik & Olsen, 2012) . This study addresses this gap by reporting the career hopes and outcomes of Canadian post-PhD humanities graduates. This study is of particular importance given national and international statistics showing that across disciplines there are many more PhD graduates than academic positions (Neumann & Tan, 2011) . So, more than half of graduates will end up finding their careers outside the academy—though the kinds of positions they accept, their work satisfaction, and the relevance of the PhD is much less clear.  \nThe humanities have been conceived as distinct from the sciences and social sciences (Becher & Trowler, 2001), with their signature PhD pedagogies (Jones, 2008, p. 37) resting on a “long tradition of individualism.” Emphasized are teaching and solitary scholarship: the need to know the “canon” in order to teach, the opportunity and flexibility to choose one’s own project, and independence as a researcher in un","cbCairfkXTbBtzu0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairfkXTbBtzu0","pdf",940772,"English","# Abstract\n# Context","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the study address regarding humanities PhD graduates?\",\"answer\":\"It addresses the limited research on post-PhD career experiences of humanities doctoral graduates compared with more studied social sciences and sciences.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the study analyze the career experiences of graduates?\",\"answer\":\"It uses descriptive statistics and narrative analysis to examine PhD experiences and post-graduation career trajectories.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the study suggest about outcomes for PhD graduates?\",\"answer\":\"More than half of graduates find careers outside the academy, but the study focuses on what kinds of roles they accept, their work satisfaction, and the perceived relevance of the PhD.\"}]","Humanities PhD Graduates: Desperately Seeking Careers? - Abstract - Context | PDF",1792083691,48]