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Direct linkJohansson, Carol; Yerrabati, Sridevi – Management in Education, 2017
At the core of doctoral education is the importance of the quality of the supervisor and student relationship. Research has shown that this relationship is directly linked to completion rates, and impacts the quality of the doctorate and its ultimate success or failure (Gill and Burnard, 2008). One influence on the supervisory relationship is the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Supervisory Methods, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
Download full textVanstone, Meredith; Hibbert, Kathy; Kinsella, Elizabeth Anne; McKenzie, Pam; Pitman, Allan; Lingard, Lorelei – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2013
This scoping literature review examines the topic of interdisciplinary doctoral research supervision. Interdisciplinary doctoral research programs are expanding in response to encouragement from funding agencies and enthusiasm from faculty and students. In an acknowledgement that the search for creative and innovative solutions to complex problems…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Supervision, Doctoral Programs, Research Projects
Yob, Iris M.; Crawford, Linda – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2012
In the research and professional literature, there are at least four lines of inquiry around mentoring: perceptions of successful mentoring in general, mentoring of doctoral dissertations in particular, mentoring specific to the online environment, and relative importance of mentoring behaviors. In each case, particular qualities that make for…
Descriptors: Mentors, Doctoral Programs, Literature Reviews, Supervisor Qualifications
Strang, Kenneth David – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2010
The internet has led to an increasing number of international students enrolling for postgraduate degrees. The literature confirms that there have been problems such as attrition, motivation, supervision and others. Professors struggle to appease international student learning styles, while simultaneously international students strain to…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Supervision, Supervisory Methods, Cross Cultural Studies
Gatfield, Terry – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2005
There has been a substantial increase in the number of candidates enrolled in PhD programmes in the past decade. Whereas the literature is relatively informative with its advice to candidates and supervisors, there is little evidence of research related to supervisory styles and changes of style over the supervisory period. This paper attempts to…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Supervisors
Johnson, David – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2005
Since 2000, I have been working towards a professional doctorate at Middlesex University, and I am also working to introduce a work-based doctorate at Coventry University. This paper looks at the issues of supervision and assessment for work-based doctorates, which, I believe, are key to the design of such a programme and affect both the output…
Descriptors: Supervision, Business Administration Education, Doctoral Programs, Foreign Countries
