Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education: Volume 8 Issue 1

Getting lost (and found) in supervision: an ethnodrama

Amanda French, Alex Kendall

This paper aims to offer an innovative approach to reflecting on research and practice around doctoral study and supervision. In the opening section of the paper, the authors…

Exploring academic hiring and life in humanities and social sciences at an English research university through a PhD students-as-partners project

Katie Brown, Anna Mountford-Zimdars

The purpose of this study is twofold: to make explicit academics’ tacit knowledge of academic employment and to develop the educational research and employability skills of 12…

Productive researchers in countries with limited research capacity: Researchers as agents in post-Soviet Kazakhstan

Aliya Kuzhabekova, Dinara Mukhamejanova

This study aims to explore how some researchers become successful in the research context of a transitional country despite the resource- and training-related limitations imposed…

Learning competencies through engineering research group experiences

Brian A. Burt

In some fields, research group experiences gained in laboratories are more influential than the classroom in shaping graduate students’ research abilities, understandings of…