Boyle, Mark
(2015)
Rethinking the PhD in geography: overview
and introduction.
GeoJournal, 80.
pp. 159-168.
ISSN 0343-2521
Abstract
Today many Higher Education Institutions
(HEIs) are actively upscaling, refining and
improving their existing PhD programs. Geography
PhD programs have not been immune from these
developments. The intention of this Special Issue (SI)
is to further build and fortify the community of interest
which is now forming around the changing trajectory
of the PhD degree in Geography by: (a) providing a
brief resume of knowledge and thinking about the
principal problems which continue to impede PhD
programs and documenting innovative and best
practice in different national settings, and; (b) reflecting
critically upon new contexts and trends which are
working on HEIs, Departments of Geography, and
PhD programs and providing space to articulate—or to
reclaim—alternative value systems for PhD programs
and to reflect upon the types of PhD structures and
program designs these values might give birth to. This
SI comprises a series of short papers, commentaries
and interventions, incorporating insights from PhD
program directors, current and recently graduated PhD
students, experienced PhD supervisors, newly
appointed faculty, and scholars of pedagogy.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
PhD; Reform; Innovative practice;
Values; Public University; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
| Item ID: |
8706 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-014-9583-5 |
| Depositing User: |
Mark Boyle
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| Date Deposited: |
28 Aug 2017 17:04 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
GeoJournal |
| Publisher: |
Springer Verlag |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| URI: |
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| Use Licence: |
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