Dear Alan,
Good question. I feel the answer is not so straightforward - it's part of the broader
picture of career development through doctoral education. Phil Agre's classic
resource on developing a career via
doctoral education provides lots of info and analyses in this context
see , "Networking on the Network"
- http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/network.html
There was also a recent set of articles in New Scientist that goes over some
of this ground and might be useful, If you are interest is in engineering
design, in the UK the professional doctoratye, the DEng, is a much higher status
than a PhD and for that it doesn't matter where your first degree was undertaken.
Best regards,
Terry
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