Doctoral Seminar

Sunday, 11 November 2007

Associate Professor Pam Green and Dr Carlene Boucher

A Doctoral Journey: Things we wished we had known at the beginning

This highly interactive seminar is designed to help participants make the most of the joys and challenges of doing a research degree.  It is aimed at all types of students, no matter your age, topic or stage in the journey. Of course there will be time to discuss your personal situation and seek advice from fellow-travellers. We plan to cover the following topics:
• The various stages of the journey and strategies for negotiating the various stages,
• Making the most of your supervisors,
• Dealing with problematic supervision relationships, and
• What do examiners expect.

We have also invited a couple of people who have successfully negotiated the path to a PhD to come and share their experience.

About the presenters

Associate Professor Pam Green is the Director of Graduate Studies at Swinburne University. She is involved in research matters surrounding postgraduate students, postgraduate research supervision, and the implementation of university level research and development strategies. Her research interests include research supervision, research training and management, the doctoral journey, qualitative research approaches, particularly naturalistic inquiry, case study work and phenomenography. A  recent book edited by Pam Green: is called Postgraduate supervision: Stories of research, resistance and results.

Dr Carlene Boucher is Associate Professor in Health Services Management in the School of Management at RMIT University.  She has been supervising research students using a wide range of qualitative research approaches for more than ten years.  She is particularly interested in novel and emerging forms of qualitative research.  She has published a number of articles that look at aspects of the supervisory relationship.  She also has an interest in research ethics.