PhD Discussion Forum

I am not sure if I am making the right decision.
I should complete my PhD by this time next year (if I get feedback on time as my supervisor has been taking forever to give feedback).
I reached out to a professor about doing a post doc or working under him as a visiting PhD student. She responded about three months later and noted that she was very interested in working with me asap. She further proposed that if she gets a scholarship, was I willing to transfer my PhD to her university.

As much as I'd love to do this, but I have one year to go so I don't know if I should say yes? She is an expert in my field and someone I would love to work with. I am tempted to accept because I don't get much attention from my supervisor (I have posted about this earlier). My partner thinks I should say yes and see if the process is completed before I finish my PhD as he strongly feels that things will not improve unless I go ahead to submit whether or not I got feedback for all my chapters.

Thank you for your insights and be well.

And she does want to steal her colleague's (in the field) student...

She was on the field hence the reason for the lateness in her response. I have not asked her students, however, my research about her past students showed that they are doing great. Graduate in record time, published with her and continue to do good things in their respective careers.

I am not sure if I should even consider making the enquiries, but, I worry that my partner might be right one year from now.

Thank you so much for your response.

I think you would find it very difficult to transfer at this late stage and there really is no point. It's quite odd of this person to suggest this if you ask me. I would tell her it's not possible. There's no indication this person is going to be a better supervisor than the ones you've already got. Just tell you it's a postdoc you're after. If she really wants to work with you and she can get funding, then there's no reason this funding can't be for a postdoc.

I'd agree that transferring might substantially lengthen your time to PhD completion not just because of rules on the minimum period of registration, but because you wouldn't necessarily be able to use your current data etc (depending on your current university's intellectual property rules and what sort of funding you've had). A postdoc would be much better for you really.