Critical Reflections on Doctoral Research and Supervision in Human Geography: The 'PhD by Publication'

Robyn Dowling*, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Emma Power, Karina Luzia

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    Abstract

    Doctoral education is central to both the production of knowledge and the reproduction of disciplines-producing the next generation of researchers. This paper considers the doctoral and supervisory experiences associated with the 'the PhD by publication'-in which a dissertation comprises a number of stand-alone 'publishable' papers, along with introductory and concluding overviews. Using the entry points of human geography and our experiences doing and supervising these PhDs, we provide a number of guidelines for human geographers, and illuminate the identity work involved in this specific process of producing scholars.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)293-305
    Number of pages13
    JournalJournal of Geography in Higher Education
    Volume36
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - May 2012

    Keywords

    • academic identity
    • PhD students
    • publishing
    • research supervision

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