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Malcolm, Mary – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
The undergraduate honours-level dissertation is a significant component of many UK undergraduate programmes, as a key stage in the longer-term intellectual and career development of potential researchers and knowledge-workers, and also a critical contributor to immediate award outcome. This study aims to identify how dissertation supervisors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Supervisors, Research Skills, Undergraduate Study
Rand, Jane – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
The experience(s) of undergraduate research students in the social sciences is under-represented in the literature in comparison to the natural sciences or science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). The strength of STEM undergraduate research learning environments is understood to be related to an apprenticeship-mode of learning supported…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Undergraduate Students, Student Participation, Communities of Practice
Lindsay, Siân – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
Writing a thesis is one of the most challenging activities that a doctoral student must undertake and can represent a barrier to timely completion. This is relevant in light of current and widespread concerns regarding doctoral completion rates. This study explored thesis writing approaches of students post or near Ph.D. completion through…
Descriptors: Theses, Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Dissertations, Writing Assignments
McCallin, Antoinette; Nayar, Shoba – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
Changes in the funding and delivery of research programmes at the university level have, in recent years, resulted in significant changes to research supervision. This paper critically reviews key influences effecting postgraduate supervision. Analysis draws on literature spanning 2000-2010 to determine the appropriateness of traditional models of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Supervision, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development
Harding, Jennifer – Teaching in Higher Education, 2002
This article discusses a teaching and research initiative in which 12 third-year undergraduate students and a lecturer worked as volunteers at a local drop-in centre for homeless men and women, and subsequently conducted 49 life history interviews there. Students were asked to keep a diary, recording field observations and reflections on stories…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Undergraduate Students, Research Methodology, Biographies