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Postgraduate education and training in the social sciences : processes and products
- Title
- Postgraduate education and training in the social sciences : processes and products / edited by Robert G. Burgess.
- Publication
- London ; Bristol, Pa. : J. Kingsley, 1994.
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- Additional Authors
- Burgess, Robert G.
- Description
- vii, 212 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- In the last decade there has been considerable interest in the process of doing a PhD. Much of this interest has focused on policy issues that have been raised by the research councils and the British Academy.
- This volume presents a guide to the 'state of the art' in postgraduate education and training in the social sciences, the concept of quality in the PhD, examining styles and strategies of supervisors with a view to improving completion rates, the process of supervision, the motives of supervisors and students and their relationship.
- Series Statement
- Higher education policy series ; 19
- Uniform Title
- Higher education policy series ; 19.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- 1. Some Issues in Postgraduate Education and Training in the Social Sciences: An Introduction / Robert G. Burgess -- 2. Strategies for Managing and Supervising the Social Science PhD / Robert G. Burgess, Christopher J. Pole and John Hockey -- 3. Disciplinary Identities and Doctoral Work / Odette Parry, Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont -- 4. Research Students and Their Supervisors in Education and Psychology / Sandra Acker, Edith Black and Tim Hill -- 5. Supervisors' and Students' Experiences of Supervision / Michael Youngman -- 6. The Development of Writing Skills in Doctoral Research Students / Mark S. Torrance and Glyn V. Thomas -- 7. Quality in the PhD: Points at which Quality May be Assessed / Estelle M. Phillips -- 8. Social Science Research Degrees: Completion Times and Rates / David Dunkerley and Jeffrey Weeks -- 9. Doctoral Social Scientists and the Labour Market / Helen Connor.
- 10. Training in Quantitative Methods for Postgraduate Social Scientists: The Other Side of the Fence / Martin Bulmer, Aubrey McKennell and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey.
- ISBN
- 185302533X
- LCCN
- 94168465
- OCLC
- 31293846
- ocm31293846
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries