Research supervision for professional doctorate students

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Research supervision for professional doctorate
students

• Dr NJ Lee
• www.ihscr.salford.ac.uk

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Presentation Outline

• The professional doctorate context
• Findings from a TLQIS project
• Discussion at national conference workshop
• Professional doctorate network
• Where next?

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The professional doctorate context

• Park (2007) Defining the doctorate
• Powell and Long (2005)
• European Universities Association (2005)
• Lunt (2006)
• Tennant (2004)
• Evans et al (2005)
• Green (2005)
• Marion et al (2003)

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Emerging Issues

• Different process, same destination or not?
• Different student audience
• Lack of clarity, understanding?
• Doctorates are for Academics?
• Original knowledge OR training/managing research?
• Professional or research knowledge?

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TLQIS Project

• Evans (1998, 1997)
• Heath (2005)
• Kemp (2004)
• Boucher and Smyth (2004)

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TLQIS - Methods Used

• Ethical Approval
• Group discussion, students and supervisors
• One to one discussion/challenges
• National workshop

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Themes developed to date

• Supervisor style
• Pragmatism
• Broken discourse/Independence
• Broken discourse/Facilitative
• Partnership and equality
• Posturing
• Integration of taught and research
• Professional issues
• Capacity building

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Where do we go from here?