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Maxwell, Claire – Journal of Youth Studies, 2006
This paper seeks to operationalise the concept of social "vulnerability" and explore its usefulness as a framework for understanding sexual relationships. Data from 30 vulnerable and less vulnerable young women in one UK city were collected through in-depth interviews and focus groups. An analysis of differences and similarities in…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Females, Focus Groups, Supervision
Clarke, Helen; Ryan, Charly – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2006
Extracts from the written conversation between research student and supervisor show the nature of educative research supervision. The authors argue that researcher-supervisor relationships are methodological in nature as they shape and influence the people, the project and the field. Such relationships, which construct meanings, are complex. A…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Supervision, Supervisors, Interpersonal Relationship
Delamont, Sara; Atkinson, Paul; Parry, Odette – 1998
This handbook is a practical guide for the novice and experienced supervisor of Ph.D. students focusing on the British system. The book is organized to follow the progress of a student from starting out to a career after the viva voce examination. The chapters are: (1) "A Most Persuasive Piece of Argument"; (2) "Caught and Held by a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Doctoral Programs, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students
Mansell, Jim; Elliott, Teresa – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2001
British residential care staff (n=143) were given scenarios describing tasks they might carry out and asked what would happen if they did or did not do them. Although a majority reported consequences from managers or coworkers, a large minority did not. The tasks for which most reported consequences were administration. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adults, Attendants, Foreign Countries
Manathunga, Catherine – International Journal for Academic Development, 2005
Educational development for research supervisors is still a recent phenomenon. Early optional sessions on research supervision have now been replaced, particularly in the UK, continental Europe, and Australasia, by comprehensive and, in some cases, mandatory programs. Yet some of these programs focus solely on the administrative roles and…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Higher Education, Supervision, Foreign Countries

Claveirole, Anne; Mathers, Morgan – Nurse Education Today, 2003
A peer supervision program for mental health nursing lecturers was implemented to help them develop new skills, avoid isolation, and enhance teamwork. Participants found it had supportive value and enhanced problem solving. Issues included distinguishing between counseling and supervising, potential of supervision to become management control, and…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Foreign Countries, Group Dynamics, Higher Education

Bourner, Tom; Hughes, Mark – Higher Education Review, 1991
A discussion of Britain's regulation that master's and doctoral degree candidates must have two or three program supervisors identifies four potential problems: fragmentation of supervisory responsibilities; conflicting advice; unproductive games; and absence of overall perspective on the thesis. Experience with an improved, team approach is…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Faculty Advisers, Foreign Countries, Graduate Study
Coghlan, David; Pedler, Mike – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2006
In qualification programmes based on action learning, there has hitherto been little articulation of what is particular to research dissertations undertaken in an action learning mode. This article addresses the questions of what such a dissertation entails and how it can be undertaken, supervised and examined. It discusses some of the foundations…
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Experiential Learning, Doctoral Dissertations, Management Development

Dickinson, Mary – Education + Training, 2000
The Schools without Walls program helps University of Surrey management students develop managerial skills by serving as mentor-managers to secondary students. Freedom to reflect and have hands-on management experience facilitated skill development. However, the program worked better for affective skills than cognitive skills. (SK)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Cribb, Alan; Gewirtz, Sharon – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2006
This paper is organized around a single interview with an academic colleague who was asked to reflect on his changing experience of Ph.D. supervision. Material from the interview is used to raise some questions about the nature of responsible supervision in the humanities and social sciences, and the ways in which the possibilities for responsible…
Descriptors: Supervision, Social Sciences, Doctoral Programs, Humanities
Action Research in Higher Education: Exploring Ways of Creating and Holding the Space for Reflection
Burchell, Helen; Dyson, Janet – Educational Action Research, 2005
This article explores the place of individual and collective reflection in action research in higher education. It draws on the experience of a year-long project in which a group of five lecturers explored their practice as supervisors of students preparing dissertations. The project provided opportunities for both individual and group reflection…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Action Research, Doctoral Dissertations, Reflective Teaching

Hockey, John – Studies in Higher Education, 1991
A discussion of the structure of the social sciences doctorate in the United Kingdom looks at the debate over whether the doctoral degree process should be viewed as education or training, the situation in other countries, graduate student learning and development processes, collegiality, the graduate student-advisor relationship, and student…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Doctoral Degrees, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Mercer, David; Evans, Barbara – School Organisation, 1991
Documents greater teacher attrition in the United Kingdom than previously realized and demands a halt to this trend. Urges increasing teacher managers' awareness of factors diminishing job satisfaction, an important factor influencing decisions to leave the profession. Presents three job satisfaction models used in business with possible…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Foreign Countries, Industry
Hasrati, Mostafa – Studies in Higher Education, 2005
This article is part of a larger scale project on some aspects of the process of academic socialization of a group of Iranian Ph.D. students studying in five UK universities, particularly focusing on the relationship between these students and their supervisors. The study included eight engineering and five social sciences/humanities students, as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Supervision
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1921
Volume II of the Biennial Survey of Education, 1916-1918 includes the following chapters: (1) Education in Great Britain and Ireland (I. L. Kandel); (2) Education in parts of the British Empire: Educational Developments in the Dominion of Canada (Walter A. Montgomery), Public School System of Jamaica (Charles A. Asbury), Recent Progress of…
Descriptors: Jews, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Methods