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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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Hartley, James; Betts, Lucy – Higher Education Review, 2009
There has been an increase in the number of postgraduate students who have published papers from their research before submitting their theses. In this study we report on the experiences in this respect of 58 recent postgraduates, one-third of whom were non-native speakers of English. 32 of these 58 students (55 per cent) had published papers…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Student Publications, Student Projects, Student Research
Barron, Deirdre; Zeegers, Margaret – Australian Educational Researcher, 2006
This paper focuses on discursive practices of postgraduate research as a crucial element in constructs of international student subjectivities when they undertake postgraduate studies in Australian universities. As such, it focuses on a discursive field emerging within domains of internationalisation, globalisation, and resistance. It examines…
Descriptors: Models, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Foreign Students, Graduate Students