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The diversity and complexity of settings and arrangements forming the 'experienced environments' for doctoral candidates: some implications for doctoral education

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posted on 2024-11-02, 04:11 authored by Margot Pearson, Terry Evans, Peter Macauley
A significant feature of contemporary doctoral education is the continuing trend for research and research education to migrate beyond discipline-based institutional teaching and research structures. The result is a more diverse array of settings and arrangements for doctoral education linked to an increasingly global research enterprise. Recognising the complexity of what is a distributed environment challenges some commonly held assumptions about doctoral education and its practice. Drawing on data gathered in an Australian study of PhD programme development in Australia carried out in 2006-2009, the article describes the fluid and complex arrangements forming the 'experienced environments' for doctoral candidates, an environment that can afford them varying opportunities and challenges for completing their candidacy. Some implications for doctoral education are discussed.

History

Journal

Studies in Higher Education

Volume

41

Issue

12

Start page

2110

End page

2124

Total pages

15

Publisher

Routledge

Place published

United Kingdom

Language

English

Copyright

© 2015 Society for Research into Higher Education

Former Identifier

2006076453

Esploro creation date

2020-06-22

Fedora creation date

2017-08-10

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