This study aimed to understand experiences of nontraditional doctoral students pursuing their PhD in Communication. Although the term "nontraditional student" exists in the literature (Cox & Ebbers, 2010; Stone & O'Shea, 2019), there is little consensus about demographics of nontraditional doctoral students (NTDS), nor their…

This study investigates how M.Ed. students observe online education and the usefulness of digital learning systems in higher education. It emphasizes learning results, digital accessibility, academic efficacy, and general satisfaction. Fifty M.Ed. students were given a structured questionnaire through Google Forms that included Likert-scale items.…

This article studies PhD candidates' "role identity," that is, where candidates position themselves on the spectrum between being a student and an employee, and how this relates to certain background characteristics (the type of contract, discipline and progress). Furthermore, we study how this self-perceived role relates to the…

Occupational therapy student readiness for Level II fieldwork is necessary for preparing novice clinicians and is challenging to assess, as it requires applying didactic knowledge in real-world clinical settings. There is currently a gap in the literature regarding student perceptions of their readiness for Level II fieldwork, especially in the…

As doctoral career trajectories continue to diversify, limited research has examined how training-related factors influence students' preparedness for non-academic employment. Anchored in socialisation theory, this study develops a configurational framework to explore how multiple elements of the doctoral training process interact to shape…

This article examines a longstanding university-sponsored summer internship program for doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences at the University of Michigan's Rackham Graduate School. Four years of student reflection data suggest that an internship is an enriching experiential learning opportunity that contributes to both…

Purpose: Creative practice doctoral education and supervision are fields in constant flux, as they require the flexibility to engage with organic and symbiotic processes and complex systems of inquiry. As interdisciplinary educators working across the fields of media and communications studies, cultural studies, art and design, the authors reflect…

This case study examines an incident in which white fragility disrupted a discussion on race in a Zoom-based Social Justice Leadership course within a southeastern EdD program. After a White student expresses feeling "unsafe" when confronted with Black students' honest thoughts about racism, the course instructor responds with an email…

This article explores societal impact of humanities doctoral research. Through an empirical inquiry based in Denmark, we analyse how current doctoral researchers conceptualize societal impact and how they articulate potential contributions to society. For theoretical framing, we employ a double-winged perspective combining concepts from the work…

Although research scholarship offers valuable guidance to those hoping to use improvement science in their teaching and practice, it tends to center the perspectives of researchers and EdD program faculty. Less research has focused on the voices of practitioners who use improvement science in their schools and organizations. We draw on sensemaking…

Competition is usually considered a mechanism for the allocation of scarce resources. This paper draws attention to a neglected effect of academic competition: competition provides participants with a normative orientation about field-specific values by informing them about which activities will be rewarded. We conceptualize this as a socializing…

The privileging of academic English in research bypasses important issues regarding multilingualism in doctoral education. In Australia, the current monolingual research paradigm limits the scope and nature of the research evidence that informs policymaking, neglecting the experiences, contributions and needs of the First Nations and migrant…

Previous studies have looked at the association between study approaches and student grades with a focus on deep, strategic, and surface learning. This study used a cross-sectional design to examine the association between study approaches and students' feelings of readiness to practice. Thirty-five students in master's and clinical doctoral…

Discipline-based education research (DBER) is an area of research that allows scholars to explore education through their own contexts. A sub-discipline of DBER is biology education research (BER) where researchers study and apply different aspects of education in biology contexts. The purpose of this duoethnography is to elucidate the motivations…

As social media becomes increasingly intertwined with professional life, educators must navigate the expectations of digital professionalism alongside traditional teaching competencies. This mixed-methods study explores the beliefs of aspiring superintendents regarding professional conduct on social media and how these beliefs influence hiring…