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McAlpine, Lynn; Castello, Montserrat; Pyhaltö, Kirsi – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
During the past two decades, PhD graduate numbers have increased dramatically with graduates viewed by governments as a means to advance the knowledge economy and international competitiveness. Concurrently, universities have also invested in policies to monitor satisfaction, retention, and timely completion--and researchers have expanded the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Educational Policy, Educational Experience, Doctoral Programs
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Pyhältö, Kirsi; McAlpine, Lynn; Peltonen, Jouni; Castello, Montserrat – European Journal of Higher Education, 2017
Social support from the supervisor and the researcher community has been identified as one of the determinants for successful completion of doctoral studies. Still surprisingly little is known about the function of social support for early career Post-PhD researchers. Even less is known about the individual variation in experienced social support…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Social Support Groups, Postdoctoral Education
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McAlpine, Lynn; Pyhältö, Kirsi; Castelló, Montserrat – Studies in Continuing Education, 2018
Two decades of research into early career researchers has highlighted the interaction of a constellation of influences in making sense of their experiences. Such research largely draws on either quantitative or qualitative traditions. While both traditions explore similar phenomena, research questions are often framed differently and use different…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Researchers, Novices, Research Design
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Castelló, Montserrat; McAlpine, Lynn; Pyhältö, Kirsi – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Post-PhD researchers working at universities are contributors to a country's productivity and competitiveness mostly through writing, which becomes a means to establish their scholarly identity as they contribute to knowledge. However, little is known about researchers' writing perceptions, and their interrelations with engagement in research,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Postdoctoral Education, Graduate Students