Thriving In Part Time Doctoral Study

Author : Jon Rainford,Kay Guccione
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000895773

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Thriving in Part-Time Doctoral Study by Jon Rainford,Kay Guccione Pdf

Thriving in Part-Time Doctoral Study is a practical guide, designed to support part-time doctoral researchers in navigating their learning experience and providing them with the tools they need to succeed in academia, alongside the work and life challenges they may be facing. Featuring eight highly practical chapters, this book covers every aspect of the part-time doctoral journey from initial planning right through to completion. Easy to dip in and out of with realistic advice, learning points and reflective activities based on real experiences, this book: ● Reflects a diversity of voices across academic disciplines ● Features real-world examples from doctoral researchers ● Can be referred to throughout the doctoral journey This key resource will support the reader in considering how best to access and draw on the communities of support available, get the most from a supervisory team, and build professional networks. It recognises that each student’s learning pathway is different and offers support to allow each individual to take control and make it their part-time doctorate. The ‘Insider Guides to Success in Academia’ offers support and practical advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers. Covering the topics that really matter, but which often get overlooked, this indispensable series provides practical and realistic guidance to address many of the needs and challenges of trying to operate, and remain, in academia. These neat pocket guides fill specific and significant gaps in current literature. Each book offers insider perspectives on the often implicit rules of the game – the things you need to know but usually aren’t told by institutional postgraduate support, researcher development units, or supervisors – and will address a practical topic that is key to career progression. They are essential reading for doctoral students, early-career researchers, supervisors, mentors, or anyone looking to launch or maintain their career in academia.

Author : Merryl Harvey,Barbara Howard-Hunt
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781529760606

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Achieving Your Doctorate While Working in Higher Education by Merryl Harvey,Barbara Howard-Hunt Pdf

Undertaking a part-time doctorate when you’re working full-time in higher education can be daunting. This guide gives you realistic and reassuring support for the complexities and challenges you might face. Each chapter helps you map the next step in your doctoral journey, from discovering your motivations and making important decisions about where to study, to preparing for thesis submission and your viva – and how to navigate the ‘after’ when you’ve completed your doctorate. The book: Gives you honest, down-to-earth advice about how to navigate professional and personal challenges, such as continuing professional development and maintaining motivation. Discusses unique tensions additionally faced by academics studying in their own institution, such as managing supervisory relationships. Showcases a diverse range of student experiences, with over 20 case studies of postgraduate researchers. Includes practical activities and reflective questions to help you make the right decisions for you. You can also find templates for helpful techniques, such as doing a SWOT analysis, and a collection of carefully-chosen weblinks to handy resources, such as funding information, on the book′s website. This book is a companion for anyone undertaking doctoral research while working in an academic post.

Author : Ray Cooksey,Gael McDonald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1170 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9789811377471

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Surviving and Thriving in Postgraduate Research by Ray Cooksey,Gael McDonald Pdf

This handbook provides an in-depth exploration of the entire journey of postgraduate research in the social and behavioural sciences, from enrolment to its culmination in the form of a thesis, dissertation or portfolio, and beyond. It is written in an accessible and example-rich style, offering practical and concrete advice in virtually all areas. It also includes references to additional resources and websites, and each chapter features key recommendations for improving the postgraduate research experience. The book addresses not only research-related aspects (e.g. supervisors; selecting your guiding assumptions; contextualising, framing and configuring research; reviewing literature; sampling; writing proposals; ethics and academic integrity; selecting a data gathering strategy; surviving your thesis/dissertation/portfolio examination; and publishing), but also questions concerning how to integrate, manage, and balance the research journey in the context of the postgraduate student’s broader life-world (e.g. skill development and supervisor relations; effective time and project management; a healthy work–life balance; maintaining motivation; and dealing with criticism). The book adopts an explicitly pluralist perspective on postgraduate research, moving beyond mixed methods thinking, and offers concrete examples from postgraduate students’ real-world experiences.

Author : Katrina McChesney,James Burford,Liezel Frick,Tseen Khoo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781040018859

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Doing Doctoral Research at a Distance by Katrina McChesney,James Burford,Liezel Frick,Tseen Khoo Pdf

Emerging from personal experience and empirical research, Doing Doctoral Research at a Distance is a key companion text for doctoral students from a range of research fields and geographical contexts who are undertaking off-campus, hybrid, and remote pathways. Offering guidance about the entire off-campus doctoral journey, the book introduces contexts of distance study; key information to get off to a flying start; organising time, space and plans to get work done; juggling employment, family and other commitments alongside distance study; doctoral identity and wellbeing; working with doctoral supervisors at a distance; accessing research culture at a distance; and managing the bumps along the road of the distance doctorate. Written for doctoral researchers, this book offers strategies to help those working at a distance to flourish. This book is ideally suited for those contemplating distance study, distance doctoral students who are starting their off-campus journey, and supervisors and others who are working with distance doctoral researchers. ‘Insider Guides to Success in Academia’ offers support and practical advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers. Covering the topics that really matter, but which often get overlooked, this indispensable series provides practical and realistic guidance to address many of the needs and challenges of trying to operate, and remain, in academia. These neat pocket guides fill specific and significant gaps in current literature. Each book offers insider perspectives on the often implicit rules of the game – the things you need to know but usually aren’t told by institutional postgraduate support, researcher development units, or supervisors – and will address a practical topic that is key to career progression. They are essential reading for doctoral students, earlycareer researchers, supervisors, mentors, or anyone looking to launch or maintain their career in academia.

Author : Troy Heffernan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9811682232

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Bourdieu and Higher Education by Troy Heffernan Pdf

This book introduces Bourdieu in the context of higher education for unfamiliar readers or those who would like to see his theories applied in the higher education setting. It builds upon research into higher education leadership and administration to examine how the university sector has changed over recent decades and how it has been reshaped into its current form.The book draws together various aspects of higher education influenced by the mass-market higher education system to examine how these forces have affected each other positively and negatively and demonstrate the culminating impact of these forces on the sector. It also focuses on the realities of what drives work and life in the modern university. It traces the steps the sector has taken in some areas to address equity issues by increasing diversity and inclusion and highlights the systemic issues that persist.

Author : Dely L. Elliot,Søren S. E. Bengtsen,Kay Guccione
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031428753

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Developing Researcher Independence Through the Hidden Curriculum by Dely L. Elliot,Søren S. E. Bengtsen,Kay Guccione Pdf

This edited book examines the concept of researcher independence and its various strands and manifestations using the conceptual lens of the hidden curriculum. Contributions highlight, discuss and exemplify the instrumental and formational roles played by the hidden curriculum in promoting and facilitating doctoral scholars’ researcher independence. Contributing to limited scholarly resources on the hidden curriculum, the book stimulates debate concerning its pragmatic and theoretical importance, particularly in pursuit of researcher independence. Including first-hand examples from doctoral scholars, doctoral supervisors, researcher developers and institutional leaders, the book will appeal to doctoral scholars, researchers and students working in the areas of doctoral education, curriculum and pedagogical practices, doctoral supervision, mentoring and coaching, researcher education, learning and development and educational leadership.

Author : Pam Denicolo,Julie Reeves,Dawn Duke
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526416940

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Fulfilling the Potential of Your Doctoral Experience by Pam Denicolo,Julie Reeves,Dawn Duke Pdf

Do you want to thrive in your doctoral research? Do you want to do more than just survive? If so this is the book for you. Focused on empowering the doctoral researcher, it is packed with advice on how to make the best of opportunities and enjoy your research experience while dealing with challenges. Whether you need to find sources of constructive feedback, are facing an unexpected disturbance to your project, or have ambitions beyond your academic goals, this book provides practical, flexible tips for conducting effective research and engaging with the complex world of academia, including how to: Maintain momentum through each stage of the research process Make the most of available resources, training, and support Explore new technologies, networks, and dissemination strategies Maximize the value of assessment Use this project as a springboard into further research and career opportunities Acknowledging that every doctoral experience is unique, this book goes beyond a script for success and instead offers a full studio of flexible, creative tools and adaptable action points that equip you to compose your own distinctive story of research success. About the series The Success in Research series, from Cindy Becker and Pam Denicolo, provides short, authoritative and accessible guides on key areas of professional and research development. Avoiding jargon and cutting to the chase of what you really need to know, these practical and supportive books cover a range of areas from presenting research to achieving impact, and from publishing journal articles to developing proposals. They are essential reading for any student or researcher interested in developing their skills and broadening their professional and methodological knowledge in an academic context.

Author : Dely Lazarte Elliot
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000896176

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Navigating Your International Doctoral Experience (and Beyond) by Dely Lazarte Elliot Pdf

Focused on understanding the journey of international doctoral and early career scholars, this key book provides insight and guidance for those whose country of origin differs from where they have chosen to pursue a doctorate. Drawing on the experiences of PhD students, it harnesses invaluable insights to support a deepening appreciation of a chosen subject of study, manage research and make the most of what intercultural interactions can offer within a doctoral experience. Each carefully considered part uses research-informed evidence drawn from a wide range of experiences and observations, providing various, and at times contrasting, perspectives. This book has been written to: Offer new insights into the PhD abroad experience Equip international scholars for their doctoral journey Help the reader optimise institutional support with help from supervisors and other staff members Filled with evidence-informed suggestions and advice, this book offers support to doctoral scholars and early career researchers as they navigate their international doctoral journey. The ‘Insider Guides to Success in Academia’ offers support and practical advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers. Covering the topics that really matter, but which often get overlooked, this indispensable series provides practical and realistic guidance to address many of the needs and challenges of trying to operate, and remain, in academia. These neat pocket guides fill specific and significant gaps in current literature. Each book offers insider perspectives on the often implicit rules of the game – the things you need to know but usually aren’t told by institutional postgraduate support, researcher development units, or supervisors – and will address a practical topic that is key to career progression. They are essential reading for doctoral students, early-career researchers, supervisors, mentors, or anyone looking to launch or maintain their career in academia.

Author : Steve Hutchinson,Helen Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781351939973

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Enhancing the Doctoral Experience by Steve Hutchinson,Helen Lawrence Pdf

One of the major intangible benefits associated with the postgraduate research experience is precisely that: the experience. And more specifically, for an increasing number of international research students: the British doctoral experience. This experience is often largely defined and shaped by their relationship with, and support from, their supervisor. Enhancing the Doctoral Experience brings together the authors’ experience and research, frameworks and models as well as pragmatic feedback and understanding. This synthesis of scholarly theory and pragmatic sampling has produced a book that provides a scaffold for students and supervisors to have conversations about their expectations; to discuss what supervision is; to articulate clearly what both parties need in order for a successful relationship to occur, and to build a mutually beneficial endeavour. In many cases, these conversations can be complicated by cultural and linguistic differences so the text explicitly addresses these and other sources of misunderstanding. Against a challenging background of growing numbers of students but also increasing pressures on time and costs, Enhancing the Doctoral Experience offers an approach to improve the effectiveness of the doctoral student and increase the professionalization of research supervision. It does so by providing both with an awareness of, and a toolkit to approach, student diversity.

Author : Mollie Dollinger
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781787699076

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Getting the Most Out of Your Doctorate by Mollie Dollinger Pdf

Navigating the gap between novice and expert is a process that will continue for years into an early academics’ career. This book will serve as practical tool for PhD candidates and early career researchers (ECRs), providing them with an understanding on how to sustain long-lasting supervisory relationships and how to develop their networks.

Author : Kenneth Meade Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Doctor of philosophy degree
ISBN : UOM:39015008980461

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Of Time and the Doctorate by Kenneth Meade Wilson Pdf

Author : Dely L. Elliot,Søren S. E. Bengtsen,Kay Guccione,Sofie Kobayashi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030414979

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The Hidden Curriculum in Doctoral Education by Dely L. Elliot,Søren S. E. Bengtsen,Kay Guccione,Sofie Kobayashi Pdf

This book explores the concept of the ‘hidden curriculum’ within doctoral education. It highlights the unofficial channels of genuine learning typically acquired by doctoral students independent of the physical and metaphorical walls of academia. The doctorate is a huge and complex undertaking which requires a range of support beyond academic foundations. The exchange between official and hidden curricula is therefore key, not just for achieving the qualification, but to also achieve transformative growth. This book offers a framework for a ‘doctoral learning ecology model’ to scaffold learning and sustain wellbeing by leveraging both formal and hidden curricula. This illuminating book will be of interest and value to doctoral researchers, supervisors, and mentors.

Author : Howard Adams,Wendy Carter-Veale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1092605622

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MASTERING the Ph. D. PROCESS: by Howard Adams,Wendy Carter-Veale Pdf

This guidebook gives students a quick overview of the things you should know about how to successfully complete your doctoral program. The advice, checklists, worksheets, and principles are rooted in research and best practices for guiding doctoral students. This guide also helps students develop academic, personal, and professional skills.

Author : Chris Rolph
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781837970483

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Supervising Doctoral Candidates by Chris Rolph Pdf

Supervising Doctoral Candidates provides support for new and young academics who, from the beginning of their academic career, may be expected to support doctoral candidates with little or no prior training.

Author : Norman John Graves,Ved P. Varma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415147309

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Working for a Doctorate by Norman John Graves,Ved P. Varma Pdf

This text addresses the problems of the doctoral research process, of finance and time-management and offers practical guidance and specialist advice to both students and their supervisors. The authors also explore issues such as gender, culture and the fundamental nature of the PhD. The book should be of interest to anyone studying, supervising or contemplating a doctoral degree in the humanities or social sciences.