Be more 'pracademic': turn your practical knowledge into a doctorate!
summary
Argument that experienced practitioners can convert day‑job problems into a doctorate using a professional doctorate model that reverses the PhD sequence: start with practice, surface tensions, then apply method. Uses a transdisciplinary approach, coaching training (Henley), and systems thinking literature; builds a case study at Transport for London where a tiny team turns a consumer into a software developer by adding a visible corridor board and relentless transparency. Thesis ends up ~100,000 words (75,000 just literature) and the intervention succeeds.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Becoming a pracademic
- 1:28Pursuing research as practitioner
- 10:33Industry to entrepreneurship
- 20:23Professional doctorate vs PhD
- 26:16Audience discussion
- 41:03Overcoming skepticism
- 43:10First year of doctoral research
- 47:54Closing remarks
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