{"id":993,"date":"2024-12-06T16:39:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T16:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/?p=993"},"modified":"2024-12-06T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T16:40:15","slug":"the-difference-between-a-professional-doctorate-and-a-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/2024\/12\/06\/the-difference-between-a-professional-doctorate-and-a-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between a Professional Doctorate and a PhD\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/sportex\/drust-barry\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/sportex\/drust-barry\">Professor Barry Drust<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The difference between a Professional Doctorate and a PhD\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QOlTy_Z0H9Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most common questions that get asked by potential students who are interested in the Doctorate in Sport and Exercise Science is \u201cwhat is the difference between a traditional doctorate and a more professionally focussed doctorate?\u201d. This short conversation tries to answer this question by giving a short outline of the my view of doctoral training and the different forms it can take. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2024\/12\/Barry-Headshot.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2024\/12\/Barry-Headshot.png 230w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2024\/12\/Barry-Headshot-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 85vw, 230px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>B.Drust@bham.ac.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Professor Barry Drust One of the most common questions that get asked by potential students who are interested in the Doctorate in Sport and Exercise Science is \u201cwhat is the difference between a traditional doctorate and a more professionally focussed doctorate?\u201d. This short conversation tries to answer this question by giving a short outline &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/2024\/12\/06\/the-difference-between-a-professional-doctorate-and-a-phd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The difference between a Professional Doctorate and a PhD\u00a0&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[224,39,42,68],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-cpd","tag-doctorate","tag-phd","tag-professional-doctorate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/gsspp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}