#Econ — I receive many PhD supervision requests from students in low-income countries, often via LinkedIn. From my experience, the vast majority send generic emails—something unlikely to help them secure a position. I’ve started responding with the following advice. Any tips I should add? - ThreadSky

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mhalla.bsky.social • 136 days ago

#Econ — I receive many PhD supervision requests from students in low-income countries, often via LinkedIn. From my experience, the vast majority send generic emails—something unlikely to help them secure a position. I’ve started responding with the following advice. Any tips I should add?

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simonreif.eu•136 days ago

I am already at the next level where I get requests with detailed research proposals that fit my research interest based on my most recent papers! Unfortunately they are AI generated and do not match the CVs at all...So I try to respond that this is also not the ideal strategy...

mhalla.bsky.social•136 days ago

So, I could add non-AI generated … 😃

johannesmboehm.bsky.social•136 days ago

I'd add: do some research on how PhD applications work in the places you're interested in. For example, in the places I've been at, admissions are centralized and not up to individual professors (so there's no point in emailing them).

mhalla.bsky.social•136 days ago

I agree. Some places (e.g., for instance many in the German speaking areas) have fragmented systems, which are rather complicated to grasp. Many have a centralised structured PhD program in place, and, in addition a „Doktoratsstudium“ or a track for „external PhD Students“. In the latter

mhalla.bsky.social•136 days ago

programs/tracks it might be mandatory or at least useful to have a (potential) supervisor before officially applying.

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