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Redefining the role of doctoral supervisors: a multicultural examination of labels and functions in contemporary doctoral education
This study focuses on the changes that doctoral education has experienced in the last decades and discusses the role of doctoral supervisors. The...
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Online Doctoral Education
This chapter discusses different factors underpinning the development of online doctoral education and pedagogical concerns influencing the design of...
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Preparation for doctoral research: a narrative review
In Australia, only two-thirds of doctoral students finish their degrees, with underrepresented students completing at even lower rates. Students who...
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Trajectory of doctoral education and training in Uganda
To participate fully in the global knowledge economy, all countries require strong research and innovation eco-systems. This crucially depends on the...
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Breaking points: exploring how negative doctoral advisor relationships develop over time
Prior literature has documented the importance of faculty advisors in the doctoral student socialization process, with a few studies describing...
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Doctoral Students’ Dual Identities: Constraints and Affordances of Doctoral Publication
Focusing on doctoral students’ evolving and dual identities, this chapter looks into the conceptual tools and the mediating resources they employed...
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Operationalising University Excellence in Doctoral Education: The Case of Top-Ranked Russian Universities
Numerous countries have implemented excellence initiatives designed to establish world-class universities, boost research productivity, build up...
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Purpose-driven oral examination: insights from doctoral viva examiners
Despite the importance of the PhD viva in assessing the quality of doctoral research, how examiners approach the PhD viva remains underexplored in...
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Emergency medicine doctoral education in Africa: a sco** review of the published literature
BackgroundWhile Africa accounts for a significant proportion of world population, and disease and injury burden, it produces less than 1% of the...
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Doctoral writing through a trajectorial lens: an exploratory study on challenges, strategies and relationships
Doctoral writing has burgeoned as a field of inquiry in the past decade. However, questions still remain as to how doctoral researchers navigate...
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International doctoral students’ identity formulations through their orientations to their children’s languages as both stressors and assets
This study contributes to research on the doctoral experience of international students who are parents, and for whom the temporary experience of...
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Supervisory Relationships with Doctoral Candidates
Scholars concur that the supervisory relationship is fundamental to doctoral students’ success. The gradual development of the supervisory...
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Non-linear path to a doctorate: a comparison of direct- and indirect-pathway doctoral students at Russian universities
Worldwide, research reports increasing proportions of nontraditional doctoral students including those who return to a doctorate after a short or...
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Academic work from the perspectives of aspiring academics: a study of doctoral candidates and recent graduates
Several studies have highlighted the changing nature and forms of work in the academic profession, but few have examined the perspectives of aspiring...
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Power-conscious ecosystems: understanding how power dynamics in US doctoral advising shape students’ experiences
Doctoral advising serves a pivotal role in graduate education but is too often rooted in power inequities that have adverse impacts. In this...
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Doctoral advisor selection processes in science, math, and engineering programs in the United States
Although advising relationships are key for doctoral student success, little research has addressed how they form. Understanding the formation of...
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Decolonising Doctoral Education: Sociology of Emergences?
The COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement and the climate change crisis have thrown into sharp relief the vast global inequities faced...
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Online Doctoral Education
This chapter discusses different factors underpinning the development of online doctoral education and pedagogical concerns influencing the design of...
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Supporting Doctoral Candidates to Disseminate Their Research
Dissemination of results of doctoral research should be a routine part of the process of postgraduate study, based on the requirements for the...
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Fieldwork from A–Z? Exploring shifting identities in doctoral research in Australia and Zimbabwe
While research into PhD programs and doctoral students’ experiences has increased in recent years, fieldwork is overlooked as a source of learning...