scholarly journals Supervisor Roles for the Doctoral Student’s Development into Independent Researcher

Pedagogika ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Giedrė Tamoliūnė ◽  
Margarita Teresevičienė
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Doctoral Student ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
Research Results ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Study Process ◽  
The University ◽  
Depth Interviews

Doctoral education is one of the primary resources for the development and implementation of new knowledge and innovation across the Europe. Therefore, the implementation of doctoral studies and preparation and training of junior academics and researchers are seen as one of  the main aims and missions of the University. Doctoral studies differ from other study levels in principle as they accentuate students’ distinguished autonomy and independency when the scientific supervisor is mentor and assistant more than a knowledge provider and student is taking more responsibility to become an independent researcher. This article presents short theoretical overview of different roles of scientific supervisor and results of in-depth interviews with doctoral students that reveal experiences of collaboration with supervisors as well as their roles that appear during the doctoral study process. Research results revealed that when collaborating with doctoral students, supervisors get involved mainly in activities that are directly related to preparation of doctoral thesis, i.e. provide consultations on research topic development, encourage students to be critical about their own work and search for new insights or perspectives, and generate new ideas together with doctoral student. However, according to the research results, supervisor’s roles in other organisational issues are less relevant, especially when talking about enculturation, where supervisor is expected to help doctoral student to integrate into local and public academic society, join international associations or research groups or have consultations with experts from the research field.

University doctoral student: dissertation, preparation for defense, personal organization

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Semen Reznik
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Doctoral Student ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Higher Educational Institutions ◽  
Scientific Creativity ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Content System ◽  
The University

The practical manual discusses the content, system and technologies of training in doctoral studies of higher educational institutions. Special attention is paid to the distinctive features of the dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Sciences and the analysis of the requirements for a doctoral dissertation. The issues of methodology of scientific creativity at the level corresponding to the doctoral dissertation are highlighted, recommendations on writing, design and defense of the dissertation are presented. Considerable attention is paid to the issues of personal organization and planning of the activities of doctoral students and all those who seek to write and defend a doctoral dissertation. For doctoral students and applicants for the degree of Doctor of Sciences, scientific consultants of doctoral students, heads of departments of the university responsible for the training of scientific and pedagogical personnel.

Transition points: well-being and disciplinary identity in the first years of doctoral studies

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Gonzalez ◽  
Heeyun Kim ◽  
Allyson Flaster
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Disciplinary Identity

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine doctoral students’ developmental trajectories in well-being and disciplinary identity during the first three years of doctoral study. Design/methodology/approach This study relies on data from a longitudinal study of PhD students enrolled at a large, research-intensive university in the USA. A group-based trajectory modeling approach is used to examine varying trajectories of well-being and disciplinary identity. Findings The authors find that students’ physical health, mental health and disciplinary identity generally decline during the first few years of doctoral study. Despite this common downward trend, the results suggest that six different developmental trajectories exist. Students’ backgrounds and levels of stress, psychological needs satisfaction, anticipatory socialization experiences and prior academic success predict group membership. Originality/value Although there is emergent evidence of a mental health crisis in graduate education scant evidence exists about the way in which well-being changes over time as students progress through their doctoral studies. There is also little evidence of how these changes might be related to academic processes such as the development of disciplinary identity. This study reported varying baseline degrees of well-being and disciplinary identity and offers that stress and unmet psychological needs might be partially responsible for varying trajectories.

scholarly journals Faculty/librarian collaborations enhance doctoral student success: Strategies for retention and graduation

2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (10) ◽  
pp. 560
Author(s):  
Yu-Hui Chen
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Doctoral Student ◽  
The United States ◽  
Student Attrition ◽  
Success Strategies ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
Attrition Rates ◽  
Retention And Graduation Rates

Doctoral study is perhaps the most rigorous educational experience anybody can have. In higher education, a great amount of effort has been focused on increasing retention and graduation rates of undergraduate students. Yet, there has been little discussion about effective qualitative measures for retaining and graduating doctoral students. This neglect masks the reality that doctoral student attrition rates in the United States have been problematic for several years. A meta-analysis conducted in 2001 showed that about 50% to 71% of doctoral candidates in the humanities did not complete their degrees.1

Applying cultural capital and field to doctoral student socialization

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan Gopaul
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Doctoral Education ◽  
Doctoral Student ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Student Socialization ◽  
Doctoral Student Socialization

Purpose Although the production of a dissertation and the transition to an independent researcher undergird the outcomes of doctoral education, this study aims to emphasize issues of inequality in doctoral study through the use of Bourdieu’s (1977, 1986) concepts of cultural capital and field. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative study with 15 doctoral students in Engineering and in Philosophy revealed that activities in doctoral study that tend to socialize students possess value, given the conventions of various contexts or social spaces related to academe. Findings Doctoral students who attain particular accomplishments experience doctoral study in ways that suggest that doctoral study is a system of conventions and norms that imbue particular activities with value, which then impact students’ doctoral education experiences. Originality/value Inequality is tied to students’ portfolio of achievements, as the value of these achievements suggests differential socialization experiences, such that different students learn about the norms and practices within doctoral study in different ways.

scholarly journals International Doctoral Students’ Navigations of Identity and Belonging in a Globalizing University

10.28945/3397 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 001-014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M Phelps
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Transnational Social Fields ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
International Doctoral Students ◽  
The University ◽  
Large Research

This article draws on findings from a broad study on the influences of globalization on the experiences of international doctoral students at a large, research intensive Canadian university. It focuses specifically on these students’ lived experiences of change in their national identities and senses of belonging in a globalizing world. Using a qualitative, multiple case narrative approach, students’ experiences were collected via in-depth interview and analyzed through a theoretical lens of transnational social fields. The study found that international doctoral students experienced multiplicity, ambiguity, and flux in their senses of self, belonging, and educational purposes as they engaged in the transnational academic and social spaces of the university. Their narratives are revealing of the ways that international doctoral students consciously construct identities that traverse national affiliations as they engage in higher levels of mobility and interact with highly internationalized environments and networks. The study contributes insight into the transformative nature of international doctoral study and identifies specific ways in which processes of globalization influence the international doctoral student experience.

scholarly journals THE QUALITY OF DOCTORAL STUDIES: CHALLENGES AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
Karina Palkova
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
Research Techniques ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Study Process ◽  
Doctoral Programmes

The doctorate studies are one of the highest degrees given by a university. Doctoral studies provide students with training in research techniques. The doctoral studies involves the presentation and preparation of the most value activity named as doctoral thesis. There are a lot of doctoral programmes whose specific objectives are to train researchers to successfully address the challenges of new researched science ECT. Nevertheless the global tendency shows that doctoral studies must be transformed to promote innovative and comprehensive research degree and the particular system of the doctoral study process. The aim of the study is to research the key issues of the quality of doctoral studies from the perspective of innovation and digitalization era in educational system in Europe as a whole and in Latvia.  

Responding to Racism and Racial Trauma in Doctoral Study: An Inventory for Coping and Mediating Relationships

2012 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly Truong ◽  
Samuel Museus
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
Racial Trauma ◽  
Individual Interviews

In this study, Kimberly A. Truong and Samuel D. Museus focus on understanding strategies doctoral students of color use to respond to racism. The authors conducted semi-structured individual interviews with twenty-six participants who self-reported experiencing racism and racial trauma during doctoral studies. Analysis of the data resulted in findings that encompass three categories: internal responses, controlled responses, and external responses. These three broad themes comprise an inventory for responding to racism and racial trauma that focuses on coping and mediating relationships.

scholarly journals Development of Doctoral Programmes in the Field of Agricultural Economics at the University Of Maribor

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-38
Author(s):  
Črtomir Rozman ◽  
Karmen Pažek ◽  
Jernej Turk
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Economics ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Bologna Reform ◽  
Doctoral Programmes ◽  
The University

In this Chapter we present the development of post graduate Doctoral Study Programmes in the field of Agricultural Economics at the University of Maribor. The first part of the Chapter describes the development before implementation of the Bologna reform. Then we describe development after the Bologna reform, and after the last reform of Doctoral Studies at the University of Maribor in 2018.

scholarly journals Varied starting points and pathways

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Burford ◽  
Catherine Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Minority Student ◽  
Widening Participation ◽  
Social Difference ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
Academic Aspiration ◽  
Minority Discourse ◽  
Equity Policy ◽  
Participation In Higher Education ◽  
The University

This article argues that the language of ‘diversity’ does multidirectional work – highlighting issues of social justice, as well as obscuring the varied experiences of those gathered underneath its umbrella (Ahmed, 2012). It builds on existing debates about widening participation in higher education, arguing that nuanced accounts of ‘diversity’ and doctoral aspiration are required. We present a duoethnographic text about two doctoral students’ pathways to study. While both students may be positioned as ‘diverse’ within their institution’s equity policy – as a sexuality minority student, and a working-class woman of Māori and European heritage – they reveal dissimilar expectations of what university study was, or could be. These histories of imagining the university shaped their trajectories into and through doctoral study. Drawing on Appadurai’s (2004) work, we argue that aspiration can be a transformative force for ‘diverse’ doctoral students, even if the map that informs aspiration is unevenly distributed. We then investigate why the idea of the ‘academic good life’ might have such aspirational pull for politically-engaged practitioners of minority discourse (Chuh, 2013). The article makes two primary contributions. First, we call for more multifaceted understandings of doctoral ‘diversity’, and for further reflection about the ways that social difference continues to shape academic aspiration. And second, we demonstrate the potential for duothenography to provide insights into the experiences of ourselves and an-Other through a shared examination of university imaginings.

scholarly journals Kształcenie w szkołach doktorskich a opłaty

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Przemysław Brzuszczak ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Doctoral Education ◽  
Doctoral Student ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
Recruitment Process ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Legislative Amendments

This article discusses the issue of fees that may be charged to doctoral students at doctoral schools. In compliance with Article 198 par. 8 of the Act – the Law on Higher Education and Science: “Doctoral education shall not be subject to fees.” This regulation may be prima facie interpreted as excluding the possibility of charging any fees to doctoral students at doctoral schools. However, this is an oversimplification. Whereas, indeed, any activities directly related to the education of doctoral students should be free of charge, doubts arise with regard to other types of fees enumerated in Article 79 of the referred Act. And so, in literature there is a consensus that three admissible types of fees potentially paid by doctoral students are those referred to in Article 79 par. 2 points 1–2 and 6 that is those charged for conducting the recruitment process (point 1), carrying out the verification of learning outcomes (point 2), using student dormitories and canteens (point 6). The interpretation of the regulations concerning fees in the entities running doctoral schools should not have an extensive or implicit character. Thus, in this context the objective scope of these regulations seems to be relatively narrow. In the practice of doctoral schools’ functioning, a certain problem, although potentially probably small, may prove to be the legislator’s waiver as of 1 October 2019 (as opposed to the fees charged at the hitherto doctoral studies) of fees due to repeating by a doctoral student of classes due to unsatisfactory academic performance and while issuing copies of certain documents. A lack of relevant provisions at a statutory level excludes charging fees in a situation when a doctoral student achieves unsatisfactory grades from taken classes or repeatedly loses such documents as, for instance, a doctoral student’s ID card, a student book, diplomas and copies thereof, supplements to diplomas. Therefore, the author postulates de lege ferenda relevant legislative amendments.

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