PhD still researching clubs at the end of office party (7)
I believe the answer is:
postdoc
'phd still researching' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'clubs at the end of office party' is the wordplay.
'clubs' becomes 'c' (abbreviation used in card games such as bridge).
'at the end of' says to put letters next to each other (some letters go at the end of others).
'office' becomes 'post' (both can mean a position or job).
'party' becomes 'do' (do can informally mean a party).
'post'+'do'='postdo'
'c' put after 'postdo' is 'POSTDOC'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for postdoc that I've seen before include "Someone doing advanced research" , "Researcher" .)