Finding a purpose for the doctorate? A view from the supervisors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4097656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Loxley (0000-0001-8427-1438, Trinity College Dublin, corresponding author), Mark Kearns (0000-0002-5692-7935, Trinity College Dublin) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 826-840 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03075079.2018.1438096 |
| OpenAlex | W2797792029 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 50 |
The changing nature of doctoral education over the past three decades has taken on a triadic relationship constructed around expectations-process-purposes and has generated much commentary and critique. The intention of this paper is to focus on the notion of ‘purpose’ from the perspective of doctoral supervisors which we have collated into four themes labelled knowledge generation, recognition, positionality and instrumentalism. The themes were generated via the analysis of semi-structured interviews undertaken with 50 doctoral supervisors as part of the SuperProfDoc project investigating their practice
Epistemology · Higher education · Instrumentalism · Pedagogy · Political science · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions · Higher Education and Employability · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Psychology
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Reconceptualizing supervisory relationships in graduate education
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Stories of moving on Hass PhD graduates’ motivations and career trajectories inside and beyond academia
Creating dialogic spaces
Struggling between emotionality and rationality
Doctoring knowledge or acknowledging doctors
Exploring research literacy in graduate students
Basics of qualitative research
The Changing Academic Profession
Understanding What We Mean by the Generic Attributes of Graduates
Economies of Signs and Space
Individualization
The social science PhD
Supervising doctoral students
Navigating careers
The Enigma of Capital
The PhD in the US
Investment in Human Capital and Personal Income Distribution
New Variant PhD
The Research Foundations of Post-Graduate Education 1
Qualitative Data Analysis
Higher education, internationalisation, and the nation-state
Critical mass and doctoral research
Searching for 'doctorateness
Doctoral Differences
The framework of a generic DProf programme - a reflection on its design, the relational dimension for candidates and advisers and the potential for knowledge co-creation
Academic in-sourcing
The impact of the doctorate
Work-based doctorates
How are doctoral students supervised? Concepts of doctoral research supervision
From PhD to initial employment
Pedagogic relations and professional change
The rather elusive concept of 'doctorateness
Doctoral enterprise
Challenging the taken-for-granted
The role of the professional doctorate in Ireland from the student perspective
An academic perspective on research and being a researcher
The Globalisation of Positional Competition
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |