Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education: Volume 13 Issue 2

Program evaluation practices and the training of PhD students in STEM

Philip M. Reeves, Jennifer Claydon, Glen A. Davenport

Program evaluation stands as an evidence-based process that would allow institutions to document and improve the quality of graduate programs and determine how to respond to…

Beyond survey measures: exploring international male graduate students’ sense of belonging in electrical engineering

Anthony Lising Antonio, Chanwoong Baek

Although a student’s sense of belonging is a key factor of persistence in higher education, research on international students’ belonging tends to rely on domain-agnostic survey…

PhD graduates in non-academic roles: harnessing communication knowledge to meet organizational goals

Lynn McAlpine, Kelsey Inouye

PhD graduates are increasingly taking non-academic roles outside and inside universities. While effective communication is a frequently mentioned concern among employers, little…

Encouraging social innovation for combating poverty: master’s students’ gendered experiences with a service-learning intervention in Kenya and Uganda

Hesborn Wao, Clement Oduor Otendo, Jackline Syonguvi, Petronilla Muriithi, Damazo T. Kadengye, Eva M. Brodin

This study aims to understand master’s students’ experiences of service-learning, following their participation in a workshop with local social innovators whose activities had…

Sustainable supervisory relationships between postgraduate international students and supervisors: a qualitative exploration at a Malaysian research university

Jasvir Kaur Nachatar Singh

This paper aims to investigate the perceived sustainable supervisory relationships between supervisors and postgraduate international students at a research university in Malaysia.

PhD students as boundary spanning agents: an exploration of student values, goals, and agency in the era of cross-sector permeation

Matthew M. Mars, Bryan G. Moravec

Market forces and other external pressures have significantly transformed higher education over the past four decades. Research on the influence of cross-sector permeation on…

When talent goes unrecognized: racial discrimination, community recognition, and STEM postdocs’ science identities

Amanda J. Brockman, Dara E. Naphan-Kingery, Richard N. Pitt

While science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) postdoctoral scholars often enter their positions with strong science identities, racially marginalized scholars are often…