Playing the PhD Game with Integrity

John Bowden is a Professor Emeritus at RMIT University, following 12 years as a Professor of Educational Development. His contributions include (1) integration of knowledge content, generic attributes and workplace competence into a capabilities-driven curriculum design theory, and (2) establishment of a modified qualitative research approach (developmental phenomenography) that has since been adopted internationally. John was founder and first President of the Australasian Society for Computers In Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) and served as President of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia for three years.Pam Green is an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University. For more than a decade, she was the Director of Graduate Studies at SUT. She was also responsible for the creation, from 2004 onwards, of the research student programme and supervisor training at SUT (Melbourne and Sarawak).  Currently she is an educational consultant, offering research training for universities, and supervising doctoral candidates. Pam is co-founder of the Australian Qualitative Research Association. Her areas of expertise include doctoral education, research supervision, language / literacy education, qualitative research, transition and leadership.

• 1 'Playing the PhD game' with integrity: An overview.- 2 The moral compass framework (MCE) for resolution of wicked problems in doctoral education.- 3  Moral development within the doctoral system.- 4 Connected moral capability: The missing link in doctoral education.- 5 Completion mindsets and contexts in doctoral education: Pursuing efficiency and quality with integrity.- 6 Integrity principles for the conduct of research.- 7 Decision-making with integrity in doctoral research practice.- 8 Writing with integrity.- 9 Creative team authorship: Sequential and cascading mutual catalysis.- 10 Establishing integrity in doctoral research training.- 11 Learning to use 'negotiated sense' on wicked problems beyond the PhD.