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The International Journal of Research Supervision is a double blind peer reviewed* online journal published by Academic Global Publications.
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Volume 1, No. 1 (Dec) 2007
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Hill, G. (ed.) Introduction |
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Carroll, A. 2007, "Togetherness: Managing Supervision or Controlling Research? Tensions in the UK doctoral supervision process", pp. 2-20. |
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Given recent concerns by UK Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and the Quality Assurance Authority for Higher Education (QAA) over failures by full-time and part-time PhD students in the UK to complete on time, there are processual and procedural issues within the training of UK postgraduates that are cause for concern. This conjectural discussion paper uses a supervisory experience by the author of a cohort of doctoral candidates to examine the potential for implicit subversion by the UK R1 post graduate research subject submission procedure to the critical academic process of supervision and ultimately research. Using case-specific analytic models, theoretical, supervisory and research process implications are discussed and specific lessons drawn from the supervisory relationship. Despite the apparent limitations to generalisibility from a single case within a specific institutional context, empiric data and models are provided that lead to an indicative hypothesis from which other postgraduate supervisors may evaluate, reflect and undertake further research into postgraduate active learning.
Keywords: post graduate supervision, learning, teaching, power paradigm
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Fenton, D. 2007, "Reflections on Supervision: Problematising the ‘gay' researcher's identity", pp. 21-28. |
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This paper is about potential problems supervisors may encounter with Higher Research Degree students whose qualitative research implicates their sexual identity construction. Specifically, I reflect upon my own experience as a research student but also draw upon my experience as a supervisor. As such, the paper suggests that supervisors with students who identify as ‘gay' are encouraged to assist them in problematising their ‘identity politics' in consideration of its complicity with hetero-normativity.
Keywords : post-graduate supervision, sexual identity |
Miller, P. 2007, "Problematising “Good” HDR Supervision: A case study of an international pilot of a on-line HDR supervisor professional development program", pp. 29-38. |
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There has been considerable discussion in higher degree research ( HDR ) literature about what constitutes ‘good' HDR Supervision. The discussion, consciously or unconsciously explores other questions such as ‘What is Research?' and ‘What is Supervision?' and in doing so reveals multiple constructs and dissonance across the terrain. The author of this paper has concluded that a curriculum for Higher Degree Research supervision must therefore adopt a constructivist stance in order to portray these multiple possible meanings for ‘good' research supervision.
An Australian university, in an effort to develop an on-line professional development program for its doctoral research supervisors found that it needed firstly to clarify the nature of ‘good' in good research supervision before embarking on a constructivist curriculum of ‘good' research supervision.
Keywords: HDR supervisor, supervisor training, professional development.
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Spooner-Lane, R. Henderson, D. Price, R. & Hil, G. 2007, "lPractice to Theory: Co-supervision stories", pp. 39-51. |
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Practitioner stories have been recognised as a valuable insight into practice as well as a means by which practice can inform theory. Our practitioner stories about our experiences of being co-supervisors in Higher Degree Research (HDR) supervision have enabled us to further our resonance with HDR literature and at the same time contribute to literature by proposing new issues related to this specific form of practice. Out of our juxtaposed stories we advocate a new model of co-supervision which addresses what we have experienced as levels of inequity within this professional relationship. This model advocates the explication of transparent expectations and opens the possibilities for mentorship and professional development in a realigned supervisory relationship.
Keywords : post graduate supervision, co-supervision
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