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Everitt, Julia – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
Doctoral supervision is a subtle but complex form of teaching in higher education, where supervisor-to-candidate expectations including support around the literature are important, but supervisory practices and candidate starting points can be disparate and expectations are not always discussed. This paper uses autoethnographic reflections and a…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs, Supervisors, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
Danvers, Emily; Hinton-Smith, Tamsin; Webb, Rebecca – Teaching in Higher Education, 2019
The paper explores questions of power arising from feminist facilitators running a doctoral writing group at a UK university. Butler's [2014. Re-thinking Vulnerability and Resistance. [Online]. Accessed September 12, 2017.…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Feminism, Doctoral Programs, Writing (Composition)
Stracke, Elke; Kumar, Vijay – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
This paper discusses the role of peer support groups (PSGs) in realising graduate attributes in the research degree. The literature indicates that top-down embedding of graduate attributes has met with only limited success. By taking a bottom-up approach, this paper shows that PSGs offer an opportunity to improve the graduate attribute outcomes of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Peer Groups, Social Support Groups
Niven, Penelope; Grant, Carolyn – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
PhDs by publications are a relatively new model for doctoral research, especially in the context of the Humanities or Education. This paper describes two writers' experiences of conducting doctoral studies in this genre and in these faculties. Each discover alternative ways of employing a body of published research papers in development of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Degrees, Academic Standards
Hyatt, David – Teaching in Higher Education, 2013
This paper addresses an issue of increasing significance in the context of taught educational doctorates and argues that this may have wider applicability for doctoral students across a range of social science disciplines. It identifies the need to engage with policy analysis as a key element of such programmes and attempts to address students'…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Educational Policy
Carter, Susan; Pitcher, Rod – Teaching in Higher Education, 2010
This article looks at the use of extended metaphor in teaching. Our case studies as two teachers using metaphor in different settings show how metaphor is experienced by learners to different pedagogical effect. The article demonstrates that metaphor can be used not only for the similarity between vehicle and target systems, but also for the…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Figurative Language, Writing Skills, Case Studies
Watts, Jacqueline H. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2010
Working in teams is widely recognised as an important skill across a range of occupations and professions, with the teaching of teamwork now a feature of the higher education curriculum. The success of teamwork, however, depends to a large extent on the mediated management of complex variables such as individual conduct, collective action,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Supervision, Teamwork
Wellington, Jerry – Teaching in Higher Education, 2010
There has been relatively little research on the pre-conceptions of doctoral students about the final examination, the viva voce and hence there is a shortage of evidence to underpin activities designed to prepare them for this experience. The present paper, which is based upon data from a wide range of focus groups of pre-viva students, seeks to…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Doctoral Programs, Test Coaching, Test Preparation
Watts, Jacqueline H. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2009
Being a professional stems not only from external regulatory and eligibility guidelines, but also from an individual's willingness to internalise and apply the values and insight gained during their training. Increasingly, professionals are expected to undertake ongoing education and training that is now seen as an integral component of…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Student Adjustment
Watts, Jacqueline H. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2008
The supervision of part-time doctoral students is a long-term academic enterprise requiring stamina both on the part of the supervisor and the student. Because of the fractured student identity of the part-time doctoral candidate, who is usually balancing a range of work, study, and family commitments, strategies to support their progress have to…
Descriptors: Supervisors, Role, Doctoral Programs, Part Time Students