Margot Pearson will speak on "
Enhancing the experienced environment for doctoral candidates in a diverse array of settings and arrangements" at the Australian National University in Canberra, 12:30pm 20 August 2015.
"A significant feature of contemporary doctoral education is the
continuing trend for research and research education to migrate beyond
discipline-based institutional teaching and research structures. As
stated in a government consultation paper DIIRS 2011.
Although the majority of formal training is undertaken within a
university environment, research training can also take place in a wide
variety of settings. Besides university environments, research training
occurs in medical research institutes and hospitals, in the CSIRO,
Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) and in office and industrial
settings.
The result is a diverse array of settings and arrangements for
doctoral education linked to an increasingly global research enterprise.
Opportunities for funding and access to other resources including
expertise can vary across doctoral programs and within them. The
resulting experienced environment of doctoral candidates is one that
that can afford them opportunities and challenges for completing their
candidacy. Drawing on recent research it is argued that in this fluid
and distributed environment attention needs to be on the individual
candidate and how they negotiate their candidacy within a framework for
exploring the doctoral experience that is candidate-centred; a framework
that includes a focus on candidate agency, personal-academic
connections, and networks."
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