How to Supervise International PhD Students: A Narrative Inquiry Study

How to Supervise Topic Models

Supervised topic models are important machine learning tools which have been widely used in computer vision as well as in other domains. However, there is a gap in the understanding of the supervision impact on the model. In this paper, we present a thorough analysis on the behaviour of supervised topic models using Supervised Latent Dirichlet Allocation (SLDA) and propose two factorized superv...

The Narrative Turn and the How of Narrative Inquiry

How Dependency Forms in a Cotwin: A Narrative Study

The aim of this study is to investigate and analyze the life story of twins by focusing on how the dependency between them forms and its consequences on various aspects of their lives. For this purpose, an in-depth interview was conducted with a 26-year-old girl cotwin. The data were analyzed using the narrative method. Findings on four themes of "unique relationship", "fusion", "individualizat...

Factors Affecting Nursing Staff’s Willingness to Supervise Nursing Students

Though nursing education and training have been widely studied, how to encourage nursing staff to supervise nursing students receives relatively less attention. We aim to partially fill this gap by investigating factors affecting nursing staff’s willingness to supervise nursing students. Eleven factors on general qualification merits and seven factors on teaching merits and preferences are cons...

The experience of international nursing students studying for a PhD in the U.K: A qualitative study

BACKGROUND Educating nurses to doctoral level is an important means of developing nursing capacity globally. There is an international shortage of doctoral nursing programmes, hence many nurses seek their doctorates overseas. The UK is a key provider of doctoral education for international nursing students, however, very little is known about international doctoral nursing students' learning ex...