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Paltridge, Brian; Starfield, Sue – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2023
This paper examines the PhD by publication in the humanities and social sciences in US, UK, Canadian and Australian universities. A set of PhDs by publication from each of these countries were collected for the study. The theses were analysed to see to what extent they fitted, or not, with discussions of thesis types described in previous research…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Policy, Humanities
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Wisker, Gina; Robinson, Gillian – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2014
Increase in numbers of postgraduate students worldwide represent an opportunity and necessity for nurturing and recognising the diversity of culturally inflected research topics, methodologies and expression. However, there are tensions in the definitions, encouragement and recognition of diversity in theses, and in balances of power in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Cultural Awareness, Doctoral Dissertations
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McAlpine, Lynn; Paulson, Julia; Gonsalves, Allison; Jazvac-Martek, Marian – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
This article examines the stories of 24 social sciences doctoral students in three universities, one in Canada and two in the UK, who experienced challenging roads to completion. While their stories confirm earlier findings, they also provide insight into how students' agency and personal networks of relationships may be critical, both as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Sciences, Doctoral Programs, Higher Education