Completing a PhD by Publication: A Review of Australian Policy and Implications for Practice

Autor/in	Jackson, Denise
Titel	Completing a PhD by Publication: A Review of Australian Policy and Implications for Practice
Quelle	In: Higher Education Research and Development, 32 (2013) 3, S.355-368 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0729-4360
DOI	10.1080/07294360.2012.692666
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Doctoral Degrees; Educational Policy; Educational Practices; Writing for Publication; Graduate Students; Educational Finance; Publish or Perish Issue; Doctoral Dissertations; Masters Theses; Faculty Publishing; College Faculty; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Doctoral degree; Doktorgrad; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungspraxis; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Bildungsfonds; Doctoral dissertation; Doctoral thesis; Doctoral theses; Dissertationsschrift; Fakultät; Australien
Abstract	There is increasing impetus for higher-degree-by-research students to publish during candidature. Research performance, including higher degree completions and publication output, commonly determines university funding, and doctorates with publishing experience are better positioned for a career in softening academic labour markets. The PhD by Publication provides a pathway for candidates to foster and demonstrate their publishing capabilities. It also provides existing academics a means of achieving doctoral status while managing the "publish or perish" milieu endemic to their work. This paper clarifies the precise nature and significance of the PhD by Publication pathway in the Australian context and discusses the associated benefits and problems, enriched by personal experience. It summarises factors pertinent to assessing the pathway's suitability. The review of current policy suggests institutional guidelines in universities nationwide are inadequate for producing theses of comparable quality to conventional dissertations and capitalising on the pathway's significant benefits. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10