The Practice of Professional Doctorates

Second generation professional doctorates in nursing.

This paper traces the increase in number and diversity of professional doctorates over the last two decades and discusses the evolution from first to second generation doctorates as a response to the rise of the knowledge economy and new understandings of knowledge-production. Distinctions between first and second generation doctorates are interpreted in the light of Gibbons et al. [Gibbons, M....

Professional Doctorates in Management: Toward a Practice-Based Approach to Doctoral Education

Professional doctorates, particularly in Australia and the UK, have been a significant growth area over the last 20 years. We discuss the emergence of professional doctorates in management education and their contribution to a more practice-based approach to doctoral education, with particular reference to the doctor of business administration degree (DBA). Professional doctorates were develope...

Methodological Innovation in Practice-Based Design Doctorates

This article presents a selective review of recent design PhDs that identify and analyse the methodological innovation that is occurring in the field, in order to inform future provision of research training. Six recently completed design PhDs are used to highlight possible philosophical and practical models that can be adopted by future PhD students in design. Four characteristics were found i...

Professional doctorates for nurses: mapping provision and perceptions.

AIM This paper reports a study to map the range of developments of professional doctorates in the United Kingdom (UK) and report the views of key stakeholders as to the value of the professional doctorate relative to the more traditional PhD. BACKGROUND As the highest university degree that can be awarded, the traditional Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) represents the pinnacle of advanced learning...

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