Kosvyra, Alexandra and Filos, Dimitris and Mountford, Nicola and Cusack, Tara and Isomursu, Minna and Chouvarda, Ioanna
(2021)
PhD courses and the intersectoral experience.
In:
7th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’21).
Universitat Politecnica de València, pp. 1131-1139.
Abstract
It has been found that most PhD graduates (>85%) do not achieve a long-term
academic career and thus there is a growing need to re-imagine PhD
education that incentivizes doctoral students to engage with research
consumers, not only within their discipline, but also, across other disciplines
and sectors to have real social impact for an improved society. The aim of this
work is to identify intersectoral/interdisciplinary courses that are considered
to broaden student career outside and inside academia. For this purpose, a
survey was designed to identify modules which lead to the improvement of
students' skills while an analysis of their attributes was also performed. Two
target groups have been considered: (a) young researchers and (b) program
directors each of which can provide different information regarding the
courses of interest. 52 students and 11 directors from 5 European Universities,
participated in the study. An absence of such courses in the standard PhD
program was observed, while any intersectoral/interdisciplinary activities
were conducted outside the PhD program, and organized by collaboration of
academia and other organizations. The survey findings reveal the need to
restructure the PhD programs.
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Book Section
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| Additional Information: |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
| Keywords: |
PhD courses; career enhancement; intersectorality;
interdisciplinarity; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business |
| Item ID: |
14675 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAd21.2021.12978 |
| Depositing User: |
Nicola Mountford
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| Date Deposited: |
18 Aug 2021 15:41 |
| Publisher: |
Universitat Politecnica de València |
| Refereed: |
No |
| Funders: |
EU Horizon 2020 |
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