Dr. Pedgley
Thank you for your posting. After having read your article, a question that had been rasied at the Doctoral Education Conference in France poped up in my head. The question was something like "which subject matters are suitable for Masters level of inquiry and which ones for the Ph.D level"?
What I am going to say may sound offensive but I am actually sincere. We have seen at the conference some research work done by Masters students that are very similar to yours in terms of subject matter, quality, originality and possibly independence. I would like to hear your response as how your work distinguish itself as a doctoral dissertation. I think your answers will definitely make a contribution to the current debate. Look forward to hearing from you.
Best Regards
Rosan Chow
Graduate Student
College of Design
North Carolina State University
> Members of this forum may like to know that an article written by myself and
> former colleagues at Lough borough University is now available at the Core
> Industrial Design web site, http://www.core77.com/linx/thesisresearch.html.
> The article, entitle d "The framing of a practice-based Ph.D. in design"
> outlines the thinking behind my PhD project (complet ed at the end of 1999).
> It also gives some pointers for how future practice-based design PhDs might
> be planned.
>
> On a technical note, the tra nsition from Word document to HTML seems to have
> resulted in some formatting errors. I shall make Core aware of this.
>
> Thanks,
> Owain
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