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Kandiko, Camille B.; Kinchin, Ian M. – London Review of Education, 2013
Competing notions of what a Ph.D. has been, is and should be are undercurrents in doctoral education. A longitudinal study of Ph.D. supervision based on interviews and concept mapping was used to surface understandings of the purpose of a Ph.D. This research tracks change over time for both the student and the supervisor. The data were analysed…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Concept Mapping, Supervision, Doctoral Programs
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Kandiko, Camille B.; Kinchin, Ian M. – Educational Research, 2012
Background: Concept-mapping and interview techniques are used to track knowledge and understanding over the duration of PhD study amongst four students and their supervisors in the course of full-time research towards their PhDs. This work is in contrast to much PhD supervision research and policy research that focuses on supervisory styles and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Dissertations, Doctoral Programs