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Getting a PhD
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 37.95This highly practical guide provides information that will help research students avoid needless mistakes. It informs and advises you about many of the important facets of postgraduate research, including: what it means to conduct research at doctoral level the requirements for independence, contribution to knowledge, originality and suitability... more...
Doctorates Downunder
Australian Council for Educational Research 2006; US$ 34.95Doctorates Downunder: Keys to successful doctoral study in Australia and New Zealand is a comprehensive collection of essays designed to guide prospective and current doctoral candidates through the amazing journey of doctoral study. Doctorates Downunder includes chapters on beginning candidature, selecting a supervisor, coun tering isolation and... more...
How to Get a PhD
McGraw-Hill Education 2005; US$ 140.00Provides a practical, realistic understanding of the processes of doing research for a doctorate. This handbook for Ph D students includes a section on professional doctorates such as Ed D, D B A, and D Eng; material for supervisors of overseas, part-time, and mature students; and a diagnostic questionnaire for students to monitor progress. more...
Doing Your Undergraduate Project
SAGE Publications 2006; US$ 37.00Doing Your Undergraduate Project is accessible and engaging, with case studies used throughout the book to help you relate aspects of the project to real-life examples. The book also contains checklists and flow-charts to help you organize your study as you go along. The book will help you prepare and collate research; write the proposal and plan... more...
Disciplines and Doctorates
Springer 2007; US$ 149.99Provides an analysis of the experience of learning to make knowledge at the level of the research doctorate. This book draws principally upon an empirical investigation at a number of Australian universities. It also provides a comparative account of doctoral study in different national systems. more...
Die Doktorarbeit: Vom Start zum Ziel: Lei(d)tfaden für Promotionswillige (German Edition)
Springer 2007; US$ 23.99Promovieren - lohnt sich das? Wie lässt sich eine Dissertation finanzieren? Wer betreut sie und wie fängt man eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit überhaupt an? Wer den Doktortitel erwerben will, findet in diesem Leitfaden einen Begleiter auf einem oftmals schwierigen Weg. Themen sind unter anderem: Der Wissenschaftsbetrieb, Zeitmanagement, Kreativitätstechniken,... more...
Changing Practices of Doctoral Education
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 45.95Postgraduate research has undergone unprecedented change in the past ten years, in response to major shifts in the role of the university and the disciplines in knowledge production and the management of intellectual work. New kinds of doctorates have been established that have expanded the scope and direction of doctoral education. A new audience... more...
Masterclass
Continuum International Publishing 1997; US$ 130.00In the English-speaking world, master's degree programmes are booming. Not only are more programmes being provided, with more people studying for master's degrees, but the nature of the degree itself is changing: it has become essentially a professional degree. In respone to market forces, a variety of approaches to curriculum design, teaching,... more...
Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 25.00Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University uses the history of the university and reframes the "Protestant Ethic" to reconsider the conditions of knowledge production in the modern world. William Clark argues that... more...
Beyond Doctorates Downunder
Australian Council for Educational Research 2009; US$ 49.95Beyond Doctorates Downunder is the third book in the highly successful Doctorates Downunder trilogy published by ACER Press. The first, Doctorates Downunder (2006), helps candidates complete their doctorates and the second, Supervising Doctorates Downunder (2007), assists supervisors with their vital role of supporting candidates during research training.... more...









