{"id":47904,"date":"2026-10-16T14:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/?p=47904"},"modified":"2026-10-16T14:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:28:27","slug":"the-road-to-my-uri-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/the-road-to-my-uri-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road to my URI Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leila Shirin- Third- Year PhD Marketing student<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Q. What brought you to pursue a PhD, and was it always part of your plan?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A. It wasn&#8217;t my original plan. After nearly ten years in industry solving problems, I realized I wanted to understand their roots rather than fix their surface, and that fundamental way of working is what brought me back to academia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Q. Now that you\u2019re in your third year, how has your research identity evolved since you first started the program?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A. I began the program searching for the one solution that would satisfy consumers, industry, and society alike. I&#8217;ve since learned that each party, and even each consumer, sees a problem through their own experiences and values, so there is rarely a single answer that satisfies everyone. Now I choose one lens, go deep into it, and defend my work, while staying open to other perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Q. Where do you see yourself after the PhD, and has that vision changed since you began?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A. I see myself as a professor, devoted to both research and teaching, which I genuinely love. My vision hasn&#8217;t changed direction; it has become stronger, more detailed, and broader as I&#8217;ve discovered how much more I can contribute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leila Shirin- Third- Year PhD Marketing student Q. What brought you to pursue a PhD, and was it always part of your plan? A. It wasn&#8217;t my original plan. After nearly ten years in industry solving problems, I realized I wanted to understand their roots rather than fix their surface, and that fundamental way of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47905,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47904\/revisions\/47905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}