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Wang, Faming; Zeng, Lily Min; Zhu, Amelia Yue; King, Ronnel B. – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Past studies on doctoral education have mostly focused on the critical role of supervisors in students' research experience. However, the role of peers has been relatively neglected. It is not clear how both supervisors and peers contribute to doctoral students' research experience. One possibility is that they are additive, which means that both…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Student Research, Peer Relationship, Social Support Groups
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Yang, Min; Yuan, Rui – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
This qualitative case study investigates two early-stage doctoral students' developing conceptions of research in their situated context. Drawing on data collected from in-depth interviews and informal conversations with the participants over two years, the study showed that the participants' research conceptions were in a symbiotic relationship…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Student Research, Student Attitudes, Goal Orientation
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Horta, Hugo; Li, Huan – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Publication pressure is perceived to be filtering down into doctoral education worldwide. We explore the causes and effects of the perceived centrality of publishing among doctoral students, emphasising the impact of publication pressure on students' identity trajectories. We draw on a qualitative analysis of 90 mainland Chinese doctoral students…
Descriptors: Writing for Publication, Doctoral Students, Foreign Countries, Publish or Perish Issue
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Wang, Faming; King, Ronnel B.; Zeng, Lily Min; Zhu, Yue; Leung, Shing On – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Research experience is widely used in quality assurance exercises to benchmark postgraduate education at the institutional level. However, individual differences in students' research experience have been largely neglected. Furthermore, little is known about how differences in students' research experience are associated with skill development and…
Descriptors: Student Research, Research Training, Graduate Students, Outcomes of Education
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Zeng, Lily Min – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Using the invariance test, this study compared the research experiences of students from two sibling cultural groups in a Hong Kong context. Data were collected from 304 Mainland Chinese and 225 local Hong Kong research students. Their research experiences were measured using the Student Research Experience Questionnaire (SREQ) and two scales…
Descriptors: Student Research, Student Experience, Graduate Students, Foreign Students
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Yu, Shulin; Lee, Icy – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2013
While much feedback research in L1 and L2 writing has been conducted in pre-university and university contexts, little attention has been paid to supervisors' comments at the graduate level. Specifically, the nature and role of supervisors' commentary on the writing of graduate-level academic genre is under-explored. Designed to fill such an…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Interviews, Writing Processes, Academic Discourse