With growing cohorts of doctoral candidates and changing demands on the educational mission, doctoral education has undergone fundamental changes. New structures have emerged in many places with the formation of doctoral schools and structured doctoral programs. In many respects, doctoral education has become professionalized: guidelines for supervision have been established and training opportunities for supervisors have been provided; the directors of doctoral schools have taken on new leadership roles; and professional groups have been formed in many universities, contributing significantly to the quality and development of doctoral education. After two decades of reform, we would like to take a look back and a look forward at doctoral education.
We want to analyze what has been achieved and critically question what still needs to be done to achieve the original objectives of the reform. We also want to look at possible scenarios for the future of doctoral education, taking into account new challenges and recent developments that have already reached us, and explore the impact these might have on the roles and activities of professionals.
Accent Text: This event will bring together leading academics, practitioners, professionals, policy makers and researchers to discuss the past, present and future development of doctoral education in Europe and beyond.
We are delighted to be working with our colleagues at the UKCGE to offer a 15% discount for delegates to attend both the 7th Annual PRIDE Conference and the 9th International Conference on Professional & Practice Based Doctorates (ICPPD). The ICPPD will also take place in London on 7th & 8th April 2025, in the same week as and immediately before the PRIDE Conference.
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The crucial role of supervision and assessment in creating excellent conditions for the training and professional development of early-career researchers (ECR) has already been emphasised in the Salzburg Principles. However, there is a consensus that it should be an institutional responsibility to create opportunities for the professional development of supervisors in order to ensure high-quality supervision. In this short pre-conference workshop, we will address the incentives, blocks and cultural issues affecting engagement of doctoral supervisors in professional development. Drawing on empirical evidence from the UK Research Supervision Survey 2024 and focus groups conducted as part of the Next Generation Research SuperVision Project (RSVP) we will explore together the content, context and conditions required to give supervision practice the reward and recognition it deserves.
Facilitator: Karen Clegg (Co-Director/Principal Investigator RSVP and Reader in Doctoral Education and Practice, School for Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York)
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