Doctoral Education as If People Matter

Marie-Louise Österlind (PhD, Lund University) is Vice Dean and Senior Lecturer in Work Psychology at Kristianstad University, Sweden. Her research concerns working conditions and leadership in public sector organisations. She has been a regular board member of The Swedish Association for University Teachers. Pam Denicolo (PhD, University of Surrey) is Professor Emerita of the University of Reading, UK, a chartered psychologist, an Academy of Social Sciences Fellow, a honorary pharmacist, and advisor/consultant to universities worldwide on doctoral education. She provides workshops for supervisors and researchers on supervision, examining, research methods, publishing, gaining funding, etc. Britt-Marie Apelgren (PhD, University of Reading) is Professor of Language Education at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She has extensive experience in doctoral education. Her main research fields concern teacher cognition, language teaching and learning, language policy, doctoral studies, and leadership in higher education.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 PrologueMarie-Louise Österlind, Pam Denicolo and Britt-Marie ApelgrenPART 1: Challenges and Opportunities for the Key Participants in Doctoral Education2 Alienation and the Problem of Work in Doctoral EducationAlistair McCulloch3 Restructuring Doctoral Education in SwedenBritt-Marie Apelgren, Sverker Lindblad and Gun-Britt Wärvik4 Challenging Policy Barriers to Doctoral Supervision: Qualifying as a Supervisor and Recruiting Students in Chinese Research UniversitiesBing Lu5 Doctoral Final Examinations: (Ir)Relevance to New Skills and Future ChallengesPam Denicolo, Dawn Duke and Julie ReevesPART 2: Challenges and Opportunities for the Staff Supporting Doctoral Researchers6 Re-framing Supervisor Development for Internationalisation and ProfessionalisationPam Denicolo, Julie Reeves, and Dawn Duke7 The Professional Development of Doctoral Supervisors through an International LensIsabel Huet, Diogo Casanova and Fabiane Garcia8 Towards a Person-Centred Discourse in Doctoral Supervisor DevelopmentMatthew Sillence9 The Role of Supervisors in Preparing Doctoral Researchers for the Final ExaminationGillian Houston10 New Beginnings or Same Old Ending for Researcher Development?Julie ReevesPART 3: Challenges and Opportunities for Doctoral Researchers’ Wellbeing11 Dimensions of Wellbeing in the Doctoral Research Environment: Implications for QualityMartin Gough12 Sustainability of Doctoral Education: A Well-Being PerspectiveManuela Schmidt and Erika Hansson13 The Role of Liminality and Reflexivity in Transformative Doctoral LearningShane Dowle14 This Could Be Heaven, or This Could Be Hell: Exploring the Complexity Experienced by Swedish Doctoral Researchers from a Workplace PerspectiveMarie-Louise Österlind15 Epilogue: Continuing to Focus on the People Involved in Doctoral EducationPam Denicolo, Marie-Louise Österlind and Britt-Marie ApelgrenIndex