Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education

Critically reflecting on and through creative practice in doctoral education: a collaborative autoethnography of journey mapping

Amy Kipp, Kathryn Currie Reinders, Amanda Buchnea, Rosa Duran, Allison Bishop, Roberta Hawkins, Dave Heidebrecht, Nealob Kakar, Lyndsey Thomson, Naty Tremblay

This paper aims to present journey mapping as a creative practice that can be used to “do doctoral education differently”, specifically, in a way that supports the wellbeing of…

Exploring the role of student-run journals in shaping academic identity

Ivonne Lujano Vilchis, Derek Thurber, Matt Romkey

Student-led journals have a long history, yet they have received little attention in academic publishing and higher education research. This study aims to fill this gap and enrich…

Identifying story types of PhD candidates lecturing in higher professional education: “ups and downs”, “turnaround”, “continuous growth”, and “scholarly recognition”

Monica A. van Winkel, Roeland M. van der Rijst, Wietske Kuijer-Siebelink, Floor Basten, Anneke M. Sools, Rob F. Poell, Jan H. van Driel

Guided by the quest concept, this study aims to explore how profession-focused PhD candidates, who are concurrently lecturing at a Dutch University of Applied Sciences (UAS), make…

A dialogue on trust in ethics processes for creative practice research education

Andrew James Couzens, Amy Johnson, Jan Cattoni

Securing ethical approval can be a frustrating and opaque experience for some creative practice research students who may find the processes required of them not well suited to…

Structural dimensions and scale development of research motivation among master’s students in the humanities and social sciences

Xiaobin Ren

This study aims to delve into the multidimensional structure of research motivation among master’s students in the humanities and social sciences and to develop an accurate tool…

Setting the tone: perspectives on the role of the team in promoting a healthy and inclusive research environment

Leigh Spanner, Susan M. Cox, Matthew Smithdeal, Michael Lee, Michael A. Hunt

This study aims to answer the following research questions: The research questions were as follows: What factors contribute to faculty, postdocs, research staff and graduate…

Charting the course for early career academics: a longitudinal analysis of U.S. academic job market trends post-pandemic

Ariangela J. Kozik, Ada K. Hagan, Nafisa M. Jadavji, Christopher T. Smith, Amanda Haage

This paper aims to identify the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the academic job market in North America and the ways in which faculty job applicants altered their…

Branching career pipelines: a latent class analysis of PHD students’ career intentions

Lanwen Zhang, Fei Guo

This paper aims to identify patterns in the career intentions of PhD students and explore factors influencing these patterns.

Strengths and weaknesses of PhD training to develop alternative careers. Insights from PhD holders working beyond academia

Marina Garcia-Morante, Crista Weise, Laura Karina Diaz Villalba, Montserrat Castelló

This study aims to critically assesses how Spanish PhD holders working outside academia perceive and value their past PhD training experiences within academic PhD programs…

British supervisors’ conceptions of ideal and successful PhD attributes and their implications for equity in doctoral candidate selection

Bukola Oyinloye, Paul Brian James Wakeling

This study aims to explore supervisors’ conceptions of successful and ideal doctoral students’ attributes and their implications for integrating equity and diversity…

Woven: the intersections of disability and doctoral study, and the lives of students who navigate these intersections

Kim Brown, Lara Sanderson, Rachel Spronken-Smith, Claire Cameron

This paper aims to understand the experiences of disabled doctoral students at one Aotearoa New Zealand University, identifying barriers to accessibility and meaningful…

Factors associated with mentoring and supervising US doctoral students with LD and/or ADHD

Maya Oledzka, Alexa Darby

The purpose of this study is to explore advisor–advisee relationships from the perspective of doctoral students with learning disabilities (LD) and/or…

How do Danish humanities PhD school leaders constitute their roles? Interactions of biography, place and time

Lynn McAlpine, Andrew Gibson, Søren Smedegaard Bengtsen

Increasingly governmental policy around PhD education has resulted in greater university oversight of programs and student experience – often through creating central PhD Schools…

The play’s the thing: reflections on the use of playwriting as creative practice within an education studies PhD

Beth Curtis, Gary Husband

Expanding on Harris and Sinclair (2014, p. 5) claim that “the writing of a play is an act of inquiry”, this paper aims to consider the joyful entanglements, messiness and…

Confronting decisions related to the termination or continuation of doctoral supervision: a supervisor perspective

Liezel Massyn, Gitte Wichmann-Hansen, Kristina Areskoug Josefsson

This paper explores theoretical perspectives on supervisors' pedagogical dilemmas when deciding whether to terminate or continue problematic supervision relationships. This paper…

Assessing practice-based research in the visual arts: a proposed new criterion

Howard Riley

This study aims to offer an original criterion of assessment for examiners of practice-based doctorates in contemporary arts practices, based upon the degree of intrigue…

Examining graduate student perspectives on supervision and peer mentoring across four professional faculties

Michele Jacobsen, Nicole Neutzling, Liza Lorenzetti, Elizabeth Oddone Paolucci, Lorelli Nowell, Tracey Clancy, Georgina Freeman, Diane L. Lorenzetti

The purpose of the study was to examine graduate student perspectives on the common and unique roles peer mentors and supervisors play in supporting student success and wellbeing…

Ways to wellbeing in postgraduate research students: interactions with positive perceptions of relationships with university staff

Patricia Gooding, Rebecca Crook, Melissa Westwood, Sarah Peters

Understanding ways to foster wellbeing in postgraduate-research students (PGRs) requires focus especially with respect to positive relationship formation with supervisory teams…

Understanding how socio-historical contexts inform approaches to improving racial climate in stem graduate education within the United States

Sarah L. Rodriguez, Rosemary Perez, Angie Kim, Rudisang Motshubi

The purpose of this study was to examine how two socio-historical contexts within the United States, the Movement for Black Lives and the COVID-19 pandemic, informed approaches to…

Advancing doctoral student professional development through a strengths-based cohort program

Connor L. Ferguson, Julie A. Lockman

Strengths-based professional development has been associated with positive outcomes in academia and in the organizational workplace. Students pursuing their doctoral degrees in…