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Ed News - 1 August 2008 (01/08/2008)

Doctoral education as collective responsibility?

Author: Mayur Katariya

Doctoral education as collective responsibility?

Date & Time: August 14th, 12-1:30
Venues: Teleconference is available from all three campuses in following rooms.
Clayton - G08
Peninsula - A3 31 (only holds 3-4 people)
Gippsland - 2S120

Abstract:
Doctoral education is changing rapidly and radically. At the recent Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference in Adelaide in April this year, major preoccupations were the changing role of the university in an international knowledge society; the implications of the Bologna agreement for research education; the impact and evaluation of research education within quality assessment frameworks; educating research students for employment in a global environment; changing conceptions of quality over time and place; managing the research education in different environments; student and supervisor development in a changing world, and so on. In all of this, one strong message was given: the doctorate can no longer be thought of in purely individual or even inter-personal terms but, instead, has become a collective responsibility.

What does all this mean for researchers and doctoral students in Education and how does it affect conceptions of supervision and how we all do our work, as supervisors, students, managers of doctoral programs? Where does Education research sit in response to the changing face of doctoral work more generally, and where might it go? This presentation considers some conceptual tools for thinking through the work of doctoral supervision in the face of intensifying demands and pressures for change.

Bio Alison Lee:
Alison Lee is Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Research in Learning and Change at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has researched and published extensively in higher education with a particular focus on postgraduate education. She has expertise in qualitative research and discourse analysis and is building a research focus in practice-based research in CRLC. She has a co-edited bbok with David Boud titled Changing Practices of Doctoral Education (Routledge 2009). Other books and monographs (written and edited solo or with others) include Making a Place: an oral history of academic development in Australia (HERDSA 2008) Culture and Text: discourse and methodology in social research and cultural studies (Rowman & Littlefield), Knowing Our business: the Role of Education in the University (Australian Council of Deans of Education) Postgraduate Study/Postgraduate Pedagogy (UTS), Gender, Literacy, Curriculum (Taylor & Francis). She currently conducting collaborative research exploring the relationship between higher education and changing professional practice, focusing currently on major changes in health systems and their implications for the practice and education of health professionals.