Dear All,
The recent thread on the PhD is an occasion to let you know about an excellent free guide to writing the PhD thesis by Prof. Ron Adams of Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia.
Titled > Demystify Your Thesis < it offers a good overview of what a thesis requires. It also examines what someone needs to do to become an independent researcher — that is, someone who can manage his or her own research projects without a supervisor.
You’ll find a free PDF copy of Ron Adams’s Demystify Your Thesis in the PhD Training, Skills, and Supervision section of my Academia.edu page at:
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
Ron offers an excellent two-day workshop for PhD supervisors. He uses the book as a framework for helping supervisors to develop and improve their skills. I took the workshop a couple of years ago — it was good value, and I’d recommend it for experienced supervisors as well as for new supervisors.
A workshop with Ron Adams is one way to improve the quality of supervision and doctoral training at your design school. Because the workshop is valuable for all disciplines and doctoral fields, you might ask your university to host the workshop and cover the costs at the university level. These workshops are good value for any universities in Australia and New Zealand that wish to enhance supervisor skills while enhancing PhD graduate skills and the quality of PhD theses.
Workshops and transportation are a bit more expensive outside Australia-New Zealand … The book is free, and you can put it to use with your PhD students at no cost.
Best regards,
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Elsevier in Cooperation with Tongji University Press | Launching in 2015
Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| University Distinguished Professor | Centre for Design Innovation | Swinburne University of Technology ||| Adjunct Professor | School of Creative Arts | James Cook University | Townsville, Australia ||| Visiting Professor | UTS Business School | University of Technology Sydney University | Sydney, Australia
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