Students' perspectives on impacts of the PhD process : the PhD as the acquisition of intellectual virtues

Abstract

In the last two decades, interest in doctoral education has prompted wide-ranging debate among stakeholders on the purposes of doctoral education in general, and the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in particular. Although this swelling interest has triggered an exponential growth in research and literature on doctoral education and the PhD, an integrated theorisation of students' perspectives of the impacts that occur during the PhD process has not yet been developed. The aim of this thesis is to address this gap in knowledge. Using grounded theory methodology and methods, the research examined the impacts of the PhD process from the perspective of 23 full-time students attending a large metropolitan university in Sydney, Australia.

Date of Award	2010
Original language	English