Posts Tagged ‘doctoral education’
Building diverse and inclusive doctoral ecosystems
How are doctoral ecosystems supporting the diversity, inclusion, and well-being of doctoral students? What networks, support systems, and interdependencies can enable doctoral students in business school ecosystems to feel a sense of belonging and flourish?
Read MoreBuilding and maintaining trust in doctoral supervisor/supervisee relationships
For doctoral candidates, working towards their doctoral degree is a personal journey, which can be rather long and lonely – but ideally, the doctoral supervisor will be there to offer support along the way.
Read MoreFour dimensions of an interdisciplinary doctoral ecosystem
How do we create doctoral ecosystems that foster an interdisciplinary identity in researchers? While the case for interdisciplinarity is well-rehearsed in theory, developing a way for it to inform researcher development at the doctoral level is not an easy feat.
Read MoreMental health and the well-being of postgraduate researchers and supervisory staff
There are many tangible benefits for institutions in providing mental health and well-being support for their doctoral community, including supervisors.
Read MoreAcademic partners in a city-wide doctoral ecosystem
How can a doctoral programme leverage local academic partnerships and interact with peers in the local community? The way such collaborations are organised remains a relative blind spot in doctoral education management.
Read MoreTowards healthy doctoral ecosystems: Key enabling factors discussed at the 2022 Doctoral Programmes Conference
At the 2022 EFMD Doctoral Programmes Conference (DPC), the general theme was the development of healthy doctoral ecosystems and the importance of networks and networking for doctoral graduates and programmes.
Read MoreThe engaged scholar
Andrew Hoffman seeks to inspire academic scholars to bring their work to the publics that need it, and to inspire administrators to make public engagement more acceptable and legitimate within their institutions; to enlarge the tent to be inclusive of multiple ways that one enacts the role of academic scholar in service to today’s world
Read MoreMothers doing doctorates part-time – why do we make it harder than it needs to be?
If universities really want mature students with families to succeed they’ll need to completely rethink the traditional image of the “doctoral student”. Widening access isn’t enough, say Sue Cronshaw, Peter Stokes, and Alistair McCulloch
Read MoreLa crisis como oportunidad
En una pandemia mundial en la que los responsables de las escuelas de negocios están preocupados por el aprendizaje virtual, los presupuestos y las burbujas de estudiantes, ¿dónde figuran los programas de doctorado en la lista de prioridades?
Read MoreCrisis as opportunity
During a global pandemic when business school leaders are preoccupied with virtual learning, budgets, and student bubbles, where do doctoral programmes feature on the list of priorities?
Read MoreThe battle for doctoral talent
Mark Smith describes the opening salvoes of a new competitive skirmish — recruiting, managing and developing the best doctoral students in business and management.
Read MoreSustainability-driven innovation
Sally Randles, Annemieke Roobeek, Sally Jeanrenaud and Simon Pickard propose that sustainability-driven innovation, a new model for collaborative PhD training and research, offers a valuable framework for inspiring new approaches.
Read MorePhDs and DBAs: Two sides of the same coin?
Laura Maguire, Elena Revilla and Angel Diaz look at the differences (and even more the similarities) between the traditional PhD programme and the newer Doctor of Business Administration.
Read MoreCastles in the sky or more reality?
The insights gained into how future professors are shaped have only posed another question: does this training add to the knowledge needed in a modern world, or is it intended for medieval castles?
Read MoreReconnecting with the business world
Through “Socially Responsible Scholarship”, Anne S Tsui suggests how business school scholars can overcome the growing criticism of irrelevant and self-serving research. For the past 25 years, business school research has been criticised for its serious disconnection from the world of business practice.
Read MoreThe thoroughly modern doctorate
David Bogle highlights some of the key changes that have occurred in PhDs (and more that are to come) and their particular resonances to management and business education.
Read MoreReinvigorating the PhD
PhDs are increasingly under scrutiny for being ‘irrelevant’ and ‘lacking impact’. But given the right tools, Simon Linacre at Emerald Group Publishing believes they still have much to offer.
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