PhD at the End of the World

Provocations for the Doctorate and a Future Contested

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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This book addresses a world-wide audience with reference to a global problem: how the PhD can serve the planet. The collected articles span theoretical reflections on key issues through to case-study examples of how PhDs are being deployed and re-thought to address global issues.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-03-03
Mått155 x 235 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDebating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives
Antal sidor212
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030622183

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Robyn Barnacle is a research education specialist and coordinates professional development programs for higher degrees by research supervisors and candidates. Robyn's research is in the area of higher education and focuses on doctoral education.Denise Cuthbert is the Dean of the School of Graduate Research at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests are focused in two main areas: adoption, family formation, children and mothers and higher education research with a focus on research education and researcher development.

1 Introduction: The PhD at the end of the world.- 2 Is Geo-logy the new umbrella for all the sciences? Hints for a neo-Humboldtian university.- Down to Earth – the PhD lived-experience.- 3 STEM PhD student preparation in the eras of cross-sector convergence and global climate crisis: An autobiographical exploration.- 4 Operationalising research: Embedded PhDs in transdisciplinary, action research projects.- Earthing the PhD curriculum.- 5 Postformal learning for postnormal times.- 6 How might the (social sciences) PhD play a role in addressing global challenges?.- 7 A Public and Persuasive PhD: Reforming doctoral education in the outreach-focused university.- 8 Remaking the PHD in US Higher Education: An Assessment.- Earthing beyond the PhD.- 9 “I’m sorry, but it’s kind of business”: Crisis, critique and care in and beyond the PhD.- 10 Doctoral creativity as an epistemological force in saving and/or destroying the world.- 11 The contribution to climate change research of the Professional Doctorate and PhD: More of the same but of a different flavour?.- Theorising an earthy PhD.- 12 Expert not Specialist: doctoral ecologies for focused frogs and high-flying birds.- 13 The PhD revolution: World-entangled and hopeful futures.- 14 Re-situating the PhD: towards an ecological adeptness.