SORTI PUBLICATIONS

Research into PhD Examination

SORTI members who have recently published in this area: Sid Bourke, Janene Budd,  Kathleen Butler, Rob Cantwell, Shen Chen, Allyson Holbrook, Kathryn Holmes and  Jill Scevak,

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.

2010

Bourke, S., & Holbrook, A. (2010). How examiners identify quality of research theses. Paper presented as part of a Symposium, “Exploring and managing uncertainty throughout the doctoral process”, 2010 Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) International Research Conference, 28 Nov- 2 Dec, 2010, Melbourne, VIC. Abstract

Budd, J., Scevak, J. & Cantwell, R. (2010). “I don’t want to do a PhD anymore”: Speaking the unspeakable in an online discussion forum. Abstract in M. Kiley (Ed.). Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference: Educating Researchers for the 21^st Century, Conference Proceedings, 13-15 April, 2010, Adelaide, SA. p. 255. Abstract

Butler, K. (2010). The doctoral journey as a means of (re)claiming Indigenous identity. Paper presented as part of a Symposium, “Exploring and managing uncertainty throughout the doctoral process”, 2010 Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) International Research Conference, 28 Nov- 2 Dec, Melbourne, VIC. Abstract

Cantwell, R., & Holbrook, A. (2010). Multiple uncertainties in new knowledge production: The case of the PhD.  Paper presented as part of a Symposium, “Exploring and managing uncertainty throughout the doctoral process”, 2010 Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) International Research Conference, 28 Nov- 2 Dec, Melbourne, VIC. Abstract

Cantwell, R., Scevak, J., & Bourke, S. Underlying dimensionality of doctoral metacognition. Paper presented as part of a Symposium, “Exploring and managing uncertainty throughout the doctoral process”, 2010 Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) International Research Conference, 28 Nov- 2 Dec, Melbourne, VIC. Abstract

Cantwell, R., Scevak, J., Bourke, S., Holbrook, A., & Budd, J. (2010). Developing measures of metacognitive and affective attributes of doctoral students, and their use in tracking the doctoral journey. Abstract in M. Kiley (Ed.). Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference: Educating Researchers for the 21^st Century, Conference Proceedings, 13-15 April, 2010. Adelaide, SA, p. 268. Abstract

Holbrook, A., & Bourke, S. (2010). How examiners judge quality of Australian Higher Degree Research theses. Report to Deans & Directors of Graduate Study (DDoGS) presented by S. Bourke, 15 April 2010, Stamford Grand Hotel, Glenelg, Adelaide

Holbrook, A., Chen, S., Bourke, S., Holmes, K., & Butler, K. (2010).  ‘I can tell that English is not your first language’. Examiner comments and recommendations on the theses of students with ESL. Abstract in M. Kiley (Ed.). Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference: Educating Researchers for the 21^st Century, Conference Proceedings, 13-15 April, 2010, Adelaide, SA,  p. 292. Abstract

Scevak, J. Cantwell, R. & Budd, J. (2010). “I never thought to ask the student what they think a PhD is”. An analysis of the metacognitive assumptions underlying student and supervisor conceptions of doctoral study. Paper presented as part of a Symposium, “Exploring and managing uncertainty throughout the doctoral process”, 2010 Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) International Research Conference, 28 Nov- 2 Dec, Melbourne, VIC. Abstract