BACKGROUND Good mentoring is a key variable for determining success in completing a doctoral program. We identified prevailing mentoring practices among doctoral students and their mentors, identified common challenges facing doctoral training, and proposed some solutions to enhance the quality of the doctoral training experience for both candidates and mentors at Makerere University College of...

Golde and Walker (2005) state that the purpose of doctoral education is “to educate and prepare those to whom we can entrust the vigor, quality, and integrity of the field.” (p. 5). Graduates of doctoral programs become “stewards of the disciplines” in which they practice (Thombs, et al., 2004, p. 13). Viewed from the perspective of the recognized tasks of any university (Shapiro, 2005), Capell...

This paper explores expertise in industrial (product) design and the contribution of knowledge generated by doctoral research. It stands on the premise that product design research should not function as a distraction from practice, but as a development of it. This is documented by doctoral studies and examples that illustrate how new knowledge can be generated by research and later applied in ...

OBJECTIVES To identify research support strategies likely to be effective for strengthening the UK's dementia research landscape and ensuring a sustainable and competitive workforce. DESIGN Interviews and qualitative analysis; systematic internet search to track the careers of 1500 holders of UK doctoral degrees in dementia, awarded during 1970-2013, to examine retention in this research fiel...

BACKGROUND The European Union (EU) supports North-South Partnerships and collaborative research projects through its Framework Programmes and Horizon 2020. There is limited research on how such projects can be harnessed to provide a structured platform for doctoral level studies as a way of strengthening health system research capacity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). OBJECTIVE The aim of this st...

AIMS This study aimed to compare the findings of the quality of nursing doctoral education survey across seven countries and discuss the strategic directions for improving quality. BACKGROUND No comparative evaluation of global quality of nursing doctoral education has been reported to date despite the rapid increase in the number of nursing doctoral programmes. DESIGN A descriptive, cross-...

INTRODUCTION Research is critical to evidence-based practice, and the rapid developments in technology provide opportunities to innovate and improve practice. Little is known about the research profile of the medical radiation science (MRS) profession in Australia and New Zealand (NZ). This study provides a baseline of their doctoral activity. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of MRS professio...

In my paper I discuss possible interpretations of Hungarian sentences containing multiple prosodic foci and ‘only’. Hungarian as a discourse-configurational language has a special position for identificational/exhaustive focus, which makes the role of ‘only’ problematic. Next to this problem I focus on sentences with multiple foci with and without ‘only’ and discuss the possible interpretations...

Alongside the growing demand for doctoral degrees, there has been an increasing number of online programmes and students enrolled across globe. While importance mediating roles that communication technology plays in education extensively documented, a comprehensive account how what purpose use different technological tools lacking literature. To address gap, present authors have conducted syste...