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Hello everyone and welcome to
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a different kind of video. Today I'm
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joined by Dr. Shayla Vradenburgh,
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who is the founder, what would
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you call it? Founder of Revolting
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Science Resources. And I'm gonna
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let her explain what that is. But today,
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because I was trained in the UK and
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Shayla was trained in the US, we are
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going to talk about the differences
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between the UK versus US PhD. So
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Shayla, do you wanna introduce
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yourself? So, yeah. My name is Dr.
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Shayla Vradenburgh. I am the founder
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of Revolting Science Resources,
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which is a company that's designed
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to bring the principles of project
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management to academic scientists
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and researchers. I realized while
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I was finishing up my PhD and
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afterwards when I kind of learned
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a little more about project management,
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how vital it is to the work that we
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do as researchers. And so I created
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a company that's all about kind of
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ways that you can implement
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some of those principles in the
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work that you do.
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And Shayla also gives presentations
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at conferences and at institutions.
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So, you know, please consider bringing
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her in. She is great. I did see her
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present at the National Postdoctoral
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Association. So yeah, that's a bit
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about Shayla. You all know me
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because you are on my YouTube
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channel. I'm Kate, I'm the founder
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of EduKatedSTEM, and normally I
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talk about education and professional
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development. So this slots in beautifully
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because at the beginning of your
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career you might be considering
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whether you should do a PhD. And
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also maybe where you should do
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one because whether you are
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international, whether you're from
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the UK, or the US, students come
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from each country all the time. And
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there are videos on YouTube already,
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from various people explaining why
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they chose various countries or not.
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So I encourage you to look at those,
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but Shayla and I will be talking about
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our personal experiences and also
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the information that is relevant today,
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which is in May, 2025 because we
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did do a little bit of researching
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around this area. So how about we
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talk about the application process.
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Do you wanna go first, Shayla?
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Yeah. So I will say it's been a few years since I've applied. I applied back in 2017, so it's again, been been a few years, but for that application process, most of the time it looks pretty similar for a lot of different universities. And also what I'll say is I got my PhD in neuroscience and in a lot of institutions in the US that can be in kind of different places. For me, most of the places I applied, it was part of the school of medicine, but sometimes you can have it be parts of different biology departments or the College of Arts and Sciences. And so, sometimes things can vary based off of what department or school that you're applying to. For kind of mostly like these biomedical science school of medicine things.
