1st Edition

Global Perspectives on Graduate and Doctoral Education International Case Studies

Edited By Stan Taylor, Karri Holley, Margaret Kiley Copyright 2025
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides a framework for analysis and reviews the changing landscape of doctoral education across fourteen global case studies before providing conclusions and recommendations for further research and development. Traditionally, doctoral education was a matter of the talented few being apprenticed to learn how to research from masters in their discipline. The work was conducted in... Read more

Introduction: Ongoing developments in doctoral education

Stan Taylor, Karri A. Holley, and Margaret Kiley

 

1. The changing landscape of doctoral education: A framework for analysis and introduction to the Special Issue

Stan Taylor

 

2. COVID-19 and doctoral education in Australia

Nigel Palmer and Margaret Kiley

 

3. Doctorate education in Chile: The race to increase the production of doctorate holders and the obsession of quantifying quality

Roxana Chiappa and Julio Labraña

 

4. China: Quality assurance, internationalization, doctoral employment and COVID-19

Shuhua Chen

 

5. Transitions in the French doctorate

Pierre Bateaux

 

6. International developments in doctoral education: A case study of Germany

Barbara M. Kehm

 

7. Recent trends in doctoral education in India

Naravana Jayaram

 

8. International developments in Iranian higher education and its implications for doctoral education

Reza Hemmati

 

9.The quality of admissions to Russian doctoral programmes during the COVID-19 pandemic

Natalia Maloshonok, Svetlana Zhuchkova, Saule Bekova and Evgeniy Terentev

 

10. Complex legacies and future prospects: Conceptualising changes in South African doctoral education

Nompilo Tshuma and Eli Bitzer

 

11. Doctoral education in Korea: The call for reinvention in a knowledge-based society

Su Youn Byoun

 

12. Doctoral trends development in Spain: From academic to professional paths

Montserrat Castelló, Marina García-Morante, Laura Díaz, Anna Sala-Bubaré and Crista Weise

 

13. International developments in doctoral education: The case of Turkiye 

Gokce Gokalp

 

14. The changing landscape of doctoral education in the UK

Stan Taylor and Gina Wisker 

 

15. Perspectives on doctoral education in the United States: Challenges and paths forward

Karri A. Holley

 

16. The changing landscape of doctoral education: Conclusions and further research

Karri A. Holley, Stan Taylor and Margaret Kiley

 

Biography

Stan Taylor was formerly Director of the Centre for Academic and Researcher Development at Durham University (UK) where he is an Honorary Professor in the School of Education. He has published widely on doctoral supervision and education and authored the UK Council for Graduate Education's Good Supervisory Practice Framework.

Karri A. Holley is Professor of Higher Education at The University of Alabama (USA). She has published widely on issues related to graduate and doctoral education as well as interdisciplinary practice and qualitative inquiry. She is a former editor of Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education.

Margaret Kiley has an adjunct position at the Australian National University. For many years, her research and teaching interests have been in the education of future researchers. She has worked in further and higher education in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia and the UK, and facilitated workshops in a number of countries.