Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education: Volume 11 Issue 1

The role of accreditation in establishing academic legitimacy in graduate level non-profit management education

Emiko Blalock

The purpose of this study is to examine the tension that a graduate education field called non-profit management education (NME) faces as it decides whether or not to adopt…

Transforming doctoral education: preparing multidimensional and adaptive scholars

Clinton A. Patterson, Chi-Ning Chang, Courtney N. Lavadia, Marta L. Pardo, Debra A. Fowler, Karen Butler-Purry

Concerning trends in graduate education, such as high attrition and underdeveloped skills, drive toward a new doctoral education approach. This paper aims to describe and propose…

Professional learning and development initiatives for postdoctoral scholars

Lorelli Nowell, Glory Ovie, Natasha Kenny, K. Alix Hayden, Michele Jacobsen

Postdoctoral scholars are increasingly pursuing diverse career paths requiring broad skill sets. This study aims to create a more comprehensive understanding of current approaches…

Graduate students’ agency and resistance after oppressive experiences

Rosemary J. Perez, L. Wesley Harris, Jr, Claire K. Robbins, Cheryl Montgomery

The purpose of this study was to explore how graduate students demonstrated agency after having oppressive or invalidating experiences based on their socially constructed…

My wellness is: An art-based collective autoethnographic illustration of doctoral student wellness in online distance education environments

Robert Jason Lynch, Bettie Perry, Cheleah Googe, Jessica Krachenfels, Kristina McCloud, Brielle Spencer-Tyree, Robert Oliver, Kathy Morgan

As online education proliferates, little attention has been given to understanding non-cognitive success factors, such as wellness, in online graduate student success. To begin to…

Preparing for PhD: exploring doctoral students’ preparation strategy

Ahmad Thamrini Fadzlin Syed Mohamed, Ahmad Fahimi Amir, Nur Khadirah Ab. Rahman, Emily Abd Rahman, Afifah Quraishah Abdul Nasir

The purpose of this paper is to give insight on the important preparation task needed to be considered by prospective PhD candidates prior to the start of their study. As pursuing…

Student reflections on doctoral learning: challenges and breakthroughs

Alison Owens, Donna Lee Brien, Elizabeth Ellison, Craig Batty

There has been sustained interest in how to support doctoral students through the often-gruelling journey they undertake from enrolment to graduation. Although doctoral numbers…

The changing postdoc and key predictors of satisfaction with professional training

Kathleen Van Benthem, Mohamad Nadim Adi, Christopher T. Corkery, Jiro Inoue, Nafisa M. Jadavji

The postdoctoral position was originally created as a short training period for PhD holders on the path to becoming university professors; however, the single-purpose paradigm of…