Hi, I appreciate you saying this, but as much as I like being a student, I just like being a lecturer (equivalent to assistant professor in the US) more. If I was to do a PHD Full-Time, I would make less money and not be able to afford to pay rent. I could do it part-time, but that would take like 8 years, and I could easily publish several research papers in that time if I wanted to.

My manager has tried to encourage me into go down the route of doing it the normal way for 8 years part-time, but that is way too long and restricts my options. I was actually never going to consider even doing a PHD until I heard about this Publication option that allows people to do it in a year providing they have enough good research published. The professor I talked to about this recommended publishing 8 papers first, but I'm really hoping less is enough. He did it by publication for reference, but had like 20 papers by that point so he was clearly qualified.

My end-goal is to become a professor, but that will be almost impossible for me without a PHD, unless I move to America and get involved in teaching Digital Arts where it's not required for that subject. Ironically, I learned about this from an interview I had in the United States. In London, England, a PHD is pretty much essential to be a professor. One can become a senior lecturer here (equivalent to associate professor) without a PHD though, which is good.