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Towards “operating within” the field: doctoral students’ views of supervisors’ discipline expertise

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posted on 2023-05-19, 01:14 authored by Gube, JCC, Getenet, ST, Satariyan, A, Muhammad, Y

Aim/Purpose: This paper considers the role of supervisors’ discipline expertise in doctoral learning from a student perspective.

Background: Doctoral students need to develop expertise in a particular field of study. In this context, developing expertise requires doctoral students to master disciplinary knowledge, conventions and scholarship under the guidance of supervisors.

Methodology: The study draws on a mixed-method approach, using an online survey and semi-structured interviews conducted with doctoral students.

Contribution: The paper brings to the fore the role of supervisors’ discipline expertise on doctoral students’ research progress.

Findings: The survey data suggest that doctoral students nominate their supervisors on the basis of their discipline expertise. They also view supervisors’ expertise as key to the development of ‘insider’ knowledge of their doctoral research.

Recommendations for Practitioners: Supervisors play a pivotal role in helping doctoral students overcome intellectual barriers by imparting their discipline knowledge as well as balancing satisfactory doctoral completion rate and high quality student experience.

Impact on Society: Doctoral supervision equips doctoral students with the right arsenal to be able to competently operate within their field and prepares them for their future research or professional career that demands a high level of discipline expertise.

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Publication title

International Journal of Doctoral Studies

Volume

12

Pagination

1-16

ISSN

1556-8881

Department/School

Faculty of Education

Publisher

Informing Science Institute

Place of publication

USA

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Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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