Doctoral Research Environment in an Indian Institute of Higher Learning in Science and Technology

Gupta, Namrata

doi:10.1177/097172180901500105

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“…The past decade in particular has seen a steady increase in research activity aimed at bettering our understanding of the doctoral student experience. A range of factors are likely responsible for this development, including the increased understanding of research's importance to national competitiveness (Gupta, 2010), governmental attempts to regulate and audit doctoral learning processes (Brooks & Heiland, 2007), marked increases in doctoral student numbers and demographic heterogeneity (Barker, 2011;Nettles, 1990;Ulku-Steiner, Kurtz-Costes, & Kinlaw, 2000), funding constraints (Neumann, 2007), and ongoing concerns regarding the frequently high rates of attrition reported amongst doctoral students (Gardner, 2009b;Golde, 2005).…”

Section: The Contemporary Doctoral Learning Environmentmentioning

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Perceived Assessment Requirements in the Contemporary Biomedical Doctorate: A Case-Study from a Research Intensive Australian University

Kemp

Molloy

Chapman

2013

IJDS

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The present work draws on semi-structured interviews with Ph.D. students and supervisors working at an Australian Group of Eight University and uses elements of constructive alignment as a lens to discuss perceptions of assessment requirements for a doctorate in the biomedical sciences. Herein, we identify i) significant ambiguity among students regarding their understanding of learning objectives and the criteria on which they are assessed, ii) a large degree of agreement between supervisor perceptions of assessment criteria and the stated assessment criteria, and iii) a perception (common to both supervisors and students) that publication of research findings is a key element of doctoral assessment. We suggest that improving the alignment of stated and perceived assessment criteria may assist socialising students to the doctoral learning environment and improve learning outcomes in the contemporary biomedical doctorate.

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Section: The Contemporary Doctoral Learning Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceived Assessment Requirements in the Contemporary Biomedical Doctorate: A Case-Study from a Research Intensive Australian University

Kemp

Molloy

Chapman

2013

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Doctoral students’ research motivation and outcomes in China: training environment moderation

Huang,

Yang

2024

Cogent Education

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Culture of Science and Science Policy Making: A Qualitative Study of Solar Photovoltaic (spv) Technology Development in India

Devaraj

Haribabu

2017

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Employing Mode 2 science perspective, the present study attempts to understand the interaction of culture of science and science policy making in Solar Photovoltaic (spv) research and technology development in India. Despite an early start, India has been lacking in the process of development and deployment of spv technologies since the 1960s. The study explores the factors that affected the spv research and technology development programmes in India. Using in-depth and semi-structured interviews, data were collected from scientists located in different academic and R&D institutions engaged in production of application oriented knowledge. The study points out that over time the conditions of spv research have been mediated by the problematic construction of public policy making in the area of energy. Unimaginative and half-hearted approach to policy making contributed to discontinuous production of knowledge and made spv technology and industrial development insignificant. This kind of ambience produced multiple effects like little or no interaction between academia-industry interaction, and crisis in the production of scientific knowledge, alienation of scientific community. The study concludes that spv science and technology development was considered at one stage as inappropriate to the Indian context for various reasons, and consequently failed to develop the strategic and commercial area of research like silicon.

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Doctoral Research Environment in an Indian Institute of Higher Learning in Science and Technology

Cited by 4 publications

References 22 publications

Perceived Assessment Requirements in the Contemporary Biomedical Doctorate: A Case-Study from a Research Intensive Australian University

Perceived Assessment Requirements in the Contemporary Biomedical Doctorate: A Case-Study from a Research Intensive Australian University

Doctoral students’ research motivation and outcomes in China: training environment moderation

Culture of Science and Science Policy Making: A Qualitative Study of Solar Photovoltaic (spv) Technology Development in India

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