Postgraduates chosen for their “excellent potential” to become future leaders in environmental science and sustainable business should consider selling Avon products, pet-sitting and joining clinical trials to cope with the cost of living crisis.
The letter describes how PhD students can boost their finances with university level teaching and training, tutoring, and exam work, and goes on to suggest dog-walking, pet-sitting, paid-for clinical trials and selling Avon products as alternative sources of income.
Adriana Lowe, who was awarded a PhD from the University of Kent in 2019, said she was “outraged” at the suggestions.
Natalie Starkey at the Open University called the advice “unbelievable”, while Jess Wade at Imperial College London called it “appalling”.
“This is just another example of how PhD students are completely let down by the system.
While they’re called students, they’re producing vital research which in many cases has a direct and meaningful effect on wider society,” said Lowe.
The primary concern here is the cost of living crisis and its disproportionate impact on our research students. »
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