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Jodi Roffey-Barentsen, Editor; Iona Burnell Reilly, Editor – Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025
Undertaking a Professional Doctorate in Education (EdD) can be a daunting yet career-defining task. Through engaging with research, increasing your networks, and conducting your own research project, you will advance your professional practice and understanding of your field. This second edition of "Completing Your EdD" is the newly…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Education, Student Research
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Hatice Nuriler; Søren S. E. Bengtsen – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2024
Purpose: Institutional framings of doctoral education mostly do not recognize the existential dimension of doctoral experience. This paper aims to offer an expanded understanding of experiences of doctoral researchers in the humanities with the concept of entangled becoming. This concept is developed through an existential lens by using Søren…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Humanities, Doctoral Students, Student Research
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Tolman, Steven; Calhoun, Daniel W.; Sergi McBrayer, Juliann; Patel, Nikheal; Cain, Elise J. – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2023
As faculty of an educational leadership doctoral program (EdD) aligned with the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) principles, we acknowledge the importance of inquiry to develop scholarly practitioners. Applying the tenet of Inquiry as Practice, our EdD faculty critically examined the doctoral curriculum to explore ways to…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Instructional Design, Doctoral Programs, Student Research
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Veselina S. Lambrev; Bárbara C. Cruz – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2025
Professional practice doctoral education is distinguished by its focus on practice-based pedagogies aimed at fostering students' development as researching professionals--individuals who are adept at using evidence to tackle educational issues. To advance students' research competence, the doctoral study should facilitate the integration of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Education Work Relationship, Student Research, Research Methodology
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Maja Elmgren; Åsa Lindberg-Sand; Anders Sonesson – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2024
The doctorate forms the basis for academic careers and the regeneration of academia, and has increasingly become important for other sectors of society. The latter is reflected in efforts on institutional, national as well as supranational levels to change and adapt the doctoral degree to new expectations. As doctoral education is embedded in…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Committees, Evaluation Methods, Research Universities
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Palmer, Nigel; Kiley, Margaret – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2023
This article considers issues that continue to shape doctoral education in Australia in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of relevant issue, and to identify opportunities for future research. It describes examples of responses taken at an institutional level, and their implications for the norms and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Doctoral Programs, Foreign Countries
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Katy Dineen; Sarah Thelen; Anna Santucci – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2024
Higher education often acts as a bridge to society, preparing people for future social, political, and economic roles. For many academics, social justice and social inclusion are areas of research interest and teaching expertise. As such, institutions of higher education are well placed to foster reflection on social justice, through research and…
Descriptors: Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Social Justice, Inclusion, Power Structure
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Hooser, Angela; Evert, Kimberly; Krahenbuhl, Kevin – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2023
This essay shares the ongoing efforts of faculty in one EdD program to embrace applied research methodologies and the shifts made in research coursework to support our doctoral candidates as they explore problems of practice. Framed by third space theory, our redesign work is positioned as the lived experience through which we were able to reflect…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Student Research, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Dissertations
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Robinson, Caitlin – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2023
The alternative format PhD, in which doctoral candidates produce a thesis composed of a series of peer reviewed publications, is growing in popularity internationally. However, across the HE (HE) system in the United Kingdom (UK), universities have been slower to adopt the alterative thesis format. This paper presents a systematic narrative review…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, Theses, Student Publications
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Helen Donaghue; Gill Adams – Studies in Continuing Education, 2025
It is widely recognised that an important aspect of doctoral study is the development of a researcher identity. However, little is known about how to support this. Although previous research has highlighted the importance of discursive engagement for researcher identity development, no studies examine talk or discuss how identities are constructed…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Self Concept, Student Research, Student Development
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McCulloch, Alistair – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2022
When Louis Pasteur remarked that chance favours the prepared mind, he was commenting on the important role played by serendipity in scientific discovery. That role is well known (most know of the story of Fleming's accidental discovery of penicillin) but much of the literature focuses on the STEM disciplines, on 'big' science, and concentrates on…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, College Graduates, Discovery Processes, Doctoral Programs
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Hosseini, Hossein; Gurney, Laura – Waikato Journal of Education, 2022
The final observable product of a successful doctoral programme is typically a thesis that has been critically examined by senior academics and considered to demonstrate a significant contribution to knowledge. However, it is a conviction underpinning this special issue that the doctorate should be acknowledged, explored and understood as a…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Student Research, Student Experience, Ambiguity (Context)
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Wendy Bastalich; Alistair McCulloch – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
Although there has been considerable "post hoc" research on student views of supervisors, there is little on how candidate expectations are constituted at or close to the point of commencement. This study reads students' commentary about the 'ideal supervisor' at the point of institutional induction to examine commencing candidate…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Student Attitudes, Supervisors, Foreign Countries
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Sonesson, Anders; Stenson, Lena; Edgren, Gudrun – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2023
Several authors have described how the formalization of recent decades has steered doctoral education towards structured curricula, more managerial control and new models for supervision. Largely absent from these accounts, however, is if and how doctoral education has been affected by the concurrent changes in research governance, in particular…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Student Research, Competition, Medical Research
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Shiva Basir; Eric Burkholder – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Doctoral qualifying exams are considered essential in assessing a student's readiness for research and advanced studies. Despite their significant role in many physics programs, questions have been raised about their format, execution, and relevance. Our research investigates perceptions held by faculty members regarding the graduate doctoral…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Physics, Doctoral Students, College Faculty
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