Session Information
Contribution
Doctoral research is required to ‘make a contribution to knowledge.’ However, in order to achieve that goal candidates have to combine certain critical features that demonstrate doctorateness. In this process, candidates will display scholarship, originality and thus achieve the ‘depth’ which is expected of academic study at the doctoral level. This session will draw upon our experience of over 70 doctoral vivas in recent years, and conducting international workshops for doctoral candidates and supervisors. Written and verbal expectations of doctoral examiners will be used to show how they recognise, or seek (!), text in theses which illustrate candidates’ possession of: - Clarity of research vision; - Explicit theorizing; - Choice of appropriate research approaches; - Developing academic confidence. The theoretical relationships between these features will be used to show their practical implication for planning, undertaking and then auditing the depth in YOUR doctoral study.
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