| Tittel: | Reflections on PhDs – before, during and after education | | Ansvar: | av Olov Olson og Kjell Grønhaug | | Forfatter: | Olson, Olov  / Grønhaug, Kjell | | Materialtype: | Artikkel - elektronisk | | Signatur: | Beta | | Utgitt: | Oslo : Universitetsforlaget, 2019 | | Omfang: | S. 136-149 | | Serie: | Beta ; 2/2019 | | Innhold: | Abstract
Problem: PhD education is growing and international evaluations, accreditations and regulations are generating institutionalization based on normative rhetoric. The Bologna agreement in European Higher Education is a powerful example.
Research Questions: The main research questions are:
• Does early experience of research influence the PhD process and the subsequent academic processes?
• Are PhD candidates becoming complete professors?
• How may processes before, during and after PhD education be improved in order to generate more complete professors?
Methodology: 82 PhD candidates from Norway and Sweden, all supervised until graduation as PhDs by the authors, are studied. Three models, one for each phase of the PhDs’ careers, are used to analyze each PhD. The phases, or processes, are the pre-doc process before PhD education, the PhD process, and senior processes after PhD education, i.e. education, research, cooperation and leadership.
Findings: The overall result is that a large proportion of the PhDs studied are caught in the middle, both in PhD and Senior processes. Consequently, improvements are needed, in all three carrier processes, i.e. pre-doc, PhD education and post-doc.
Practical implications: Based on the finding we argue normatively that a one-year thesis should be included in master programs for students who wish to continue to a PhD program. We also argue that post-doc programs must include education, research and cooperation, and an experienced mentor.
Originality: The study is unique because its focuses on a large group of PhD candidates who the authors have supervised and have had longstanding relations with after PhD graduation.
Keywords: PhDs PhD education pre-doc post-doc complete professor | | Del av verk: | Beta 2/2019 |
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