Siouxsie Wiles, all over New Zealand news media over the last 6 months or more for her supposed expertise on COVID-19, claims to have a PhD and at least once she's claimed that it is from Oxford, the implication of course being that it's from Oxford University. Doctorates from Oxford University are normally called a DPhil rather than PhD, or PHD as referred to on at least one of Siouxsie's copious social media or online biography pages. But there's no evidence of such a doctorate, whatever it is called, for example this database has no record of it;
And Siouxsie's Wikipedia page referenced this paper as her PhD thesis before I challenged it a few months ago (the Wikipedia link is to an archived version of her page).
Development of bespoke bioluminescent reporters with the potential for in situ deployment within a phenolic-remediating wastewater treatment system
That paper is only 10 pages long, it has three co-authors which would be very unusual for a thesis and nowhere other than Wikipedia do I see it mentioned as a thesis. The chances of that paper being her thesis are close to zero.
I've filed an OIA at Auckland University to proffer up proof that Siouxsie Wiles has what she claims to have. What prompted that?
This bit of anti-science (and good on you Sammy, we need more of you - Keywords: woman, PhD);
And advisor rather than supervisor? I know that there might be some terminology differences between countries but I thought the term was 'supervisor'. And yes you are supposed to notice the pink hair, it's better than concentrating on her 'expertise' in whatever field the NZ newsmedia has asked her to comment on today. Anyway...
Shortly after this post of mine, Siouxsie Wiles attempting to address the questions asked here, and in my Official Information Act request, and for the first time on social media from what I can gather, stated that her PhD was from Edinburgh Napier University not Oxford as strongly implied in the above tweets. Of course she also threw a few insults in my direction, que sera sera.
20200909 Update: Siouxsie has had a go at defending her PhD on Twitter. That's novel. There is still no thesis offered in evidence though. But at least we've cleared up that it's not an Oxbridge PhD. And bonus, we have extras! Bill Gates eh? And not to miss the little dash of libel. I might take it more seriously but…
20210126 update: I still think that, on the balance of evidence, that you don't have a PhD, Siouxsie. If Elle has a copy to prove otherwise, she is welcome to send me the relevant information and proof.
And being a PhD student is not the same as having a PhD. And having a thesis is also not necessarily indicative of a PhD, as you may have been told that it wasn't good enough.
Soz. The Dude in Dunedin.