A Doctor of Philosophy degree is expected to provide a transformative experience to
students and expand the frontier of disciplinary knowledge to benefit the wider public. The …

Across the globe, doctoral education is in the throes of change. Diversification, regulation
and proliferation are just a few of the developments that pose major challenges for those …

Given the influx of new courses and programmes, an increase in the number of local and
international students, as well as an upsurge in the number of universities in Malaysia …

In this article we explore how examiners assess a thesis that includes published work. An
online survey was used to gather data on approaches to assessing publication-based …

Becoming a successful academic and securing a principal investigator (PI) position at a
research‐intensive university requires many distinct skills. Beyond some form of technical …

This study aims to better understand the learning experiences of doctoral examiners in
relation to their assessment practices in the PhD viva, which directly impacts the PhD …

This study looks at assessment of PhD theses from two perspectives: criteria in use in
assessment reports at a science faculty and norms of science. Fifty assessment reports were …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the issues and challenges associated with
examining PhD theses in the modern, rapidly changing academic world. The PhD degree …

ABSTRACT Aim/Purpose The purpose of this work is to develop more nuanced
understandings of the PhD by publication, particularly raising awareness of the retrospective …

This article proposes that a queer reading of failure might offer opportunities to re-think the
affective-political practice of doctoral writing. It examines data from one case in Aotearoa …