Over the last 10 years or so, I've been developing a new form of PhD research training process based on achieving all the benefits and research quality of a long thesis PhD in a way that was more supportive and fun to do. More importantly, it would result in top quality PhD research training and successful thesis outcomes in a sensible time span - 3 years or less.
The new program is designed to work in countries using conventional long thesis PhD but to achieve the same outcomes more easily, with higher retention, reducing the stress of students, and more than addressing the concerns of PhD examiners and employers have about PhD education to date.
The current trial s of the process are showing its benefits, particularly for:
- international students disadvantaged by language and culture
- English first-language students who are weak in writing academic skills
- students with Art and Design backgrounds commonly disadvantaged in the formal skills of reasoning, evidence selection and classic logical argumentation.
This new PhD education process is based on worldwide review and testing of best practice in supervision, thesis-writing and research training.
I've a book almost completed describing the process. Watch this space!
