SORTI PUBLICATIONS

Research into PhD Examination

SORTI members who have recently published in this area: Sid Bourke, Rob Cantwell, Allyson Holbrook, Kathryn Holmes, Margaret Kiley, Terry Lovat and Elena Prieto.

The latest publications in this area are given on this page. Publications for earlier years are archived by year. Links to these are the end of this page.

2009

Austin, A., Kiley, M., & Pearson, M. (2009). Critical issues in Doctoral Education: Comparison of challenges and responses in Australia and the United States. Paper presented at the American Society for Higher Education (AERA) Conference. 4-8 December, Vancouver.

Bourke, S., Holbook, A., Craig, H., Lovat, T., Holmes, K., & Prieto, E. (2009). Matching and understanding the context and language of PhD examiner reports. Paper presented at the 2009 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, 13-17 April, San Diego.

Holbrook, A., & Bourke, S. (2009). Duty, territory and empathy: Identifying the elements in PhD examination. paper presented at the 2009 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, 13-17 April, San Diego. 

Holbrook, A., Craig, H., Bourke, S., Lovat, T., Holmes, K., & Prieto, E. (2009). The content and language of PhD examiner reports. Paper presented at the 13th Biennial Conference of  of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Book of Abstracts, 25-29 August, Amsterdam.

Kiley, M. (2009). Rethinking the Australian doctoral examination process. Australian Universities Review 51 32-41. [Tier B]

Kiley, M. (2009). ''You don't want a smart Alec': Selecting examiners to assess doctoral dissertations. Studies in Higher Education, 34 (8) 889-903. [Tier A*]

Kiley, M. (2009). Impacts of doctoral education policies on doctoral programs. Paper presented to American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting,Disciplined Inquiry – Education Research in the Circle of Knowledge, 13-17 April, San Diego.