基本説明
Analyses the development of generic research skills training and its wide-ranging impact on the UK research degree.
Full Description
How might research degrees develop to improve both research student learning and employability? How should research student skills and development be evaluated? What are the skills that employers seek from research graduates?
This book analyzes the development of research skills training and development and its wide-ranging impact on the UK research degree. The book examines the politics of skills training and its implications for academic culture as well as providing essential support and advice for practitioners and policy makers through examples of best practice. It also contains a thorough examination of the future of research degrees in the context of skills development and the supply of highly trained and specialized researchers to the academic and business world. Skills Training in Research Degree Programmes provides comprehensive coverage of skills training in research degree programmes in the UK, providing instructive, self-contained chapters that serve as a resource to all academics, trainers, research administrators and senior management involved in the postgraduate research community.Foreword by Professor Sir Gareth RobertsContributors: Esat Alpay, Charlie Ball, Simon Beecroft, Tim Birtwistle, Tony Bromley, Howard Green, Ged Hall, Richard Hinchcliffe, Steve Hutchinson, Peter Lewis, Alistair McCulloch, Chris Park, Stuart Powell, Imelda Race, Julie Reeves, Al Richardson, Sara Shinton, Claire Souter, Peter Stokes, Judi Sture and Elaine Walsh.
Contents
Preface
List of contributors Part 1 - Politics
Can generic skills training change academic culture?
What do employers want?
PhD, Quo Vadis? Skills training and the changing doctorateprogramme
Normalising the part-time student experience: Makingthe rhetoric of diversity real
Part 2 - Practice
The challenges of research training practice
Training practice and UK GRAD: Why they dowhat they do?
Evaluating student skills and development: Current practiceand the Imperial College experience
Evaluation and review of skills training programmes forresearch students
Research training in practice: The Sheffield experience
The social sciences research training programme:Ten years of 'going over the top' at Bradford
Professional learning through reflective practice: the UEAexperience
Part 3 - The Future
Getting beyond supervision
A framework for the future of doctoral study: Resolvinginconsistent practices and incorporating innovativepossibilities
The impact of the changing European higher educationlandscape on doctoral studies
The challenges ahead
Bibliography
Index
