12^th Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference: Call for Papers

Conference theme: Society, Economy & Communities: 21^st Century Innovation in Doctoral Education.

Quality in Postgraduate Research (QPR) is the world’s biggest & longest-standing conference on doctoral education.

Held every two years in Adelaide, South Australia, QPR brings together educational researchers, policy makers, university leaders, research students & research degree supervisors for the purpose of better understanding the processes, practices, pedagogies and theoretical frameworks of doctoral education.

The next QPR will take place between 20^th – 22^nd April 2016, once again at the Australian National Wine Centre in Adelaide’s beautiful Botanic Gardens, adjacent to the CBD.

Submissions are now being accepted and close Monday 9 November 2015. Details of the 2016 conference (and previous conferences) and how to submit a proposal for a paper, a poster or a pecha kucha presentation can be found on the QPR website at www.qpr.edu.au . Refereed conference proceedings will be published and the conference organisers are seeking and welcome offers for special editions of journals in which selected papers can be published.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Society, Economy & Communities: 21^st Century Innovation in Doctoral Education.

Globally, doctoral education continues to develop rapidly in terms of size, form, diversity and ascribed purposes. Alongside these developments, debates continue over its future, forms of delivery and the nature of the learning and innovation that it facilitates and engenders. These debates involve actors as diverse as individual research students and international bodies such as the OECD and the World Bank.

Since 1994 Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference has brought together from across the world research degree supervisors, postgraduate students, academic developers, university decision makers and administrators, governmental representatives and those who conduct research in postgraduate education and associated areas. Together we discuss, debate and make sense of this complex and changing area of policy and practice.

Proposals for presentations and full papers are therefore invited on topics including, but not limited to:

the doctorate relationship with societies, economies and communities in the 21st century
research degrees, employability and research skills agenda
governmental and institutional policy on research training
supervision practice, the pedagogy of supervision and the student experience
research degrees outcomes and assessment
diversity in doctoral education
the management of research degrees
actors and agency in doctoral education

In addition to full papers, a plenary ‘Pecha Kucha’ session is planned in which up to 15 presenters will be given 5 minutes and allowed a maximum of 10 powerpoint slides to make their argument. If your proposal is for a Pecha Kucha, please indicate this clearly in the title when submitting via EasyChair. The audience will be invited to vote for the best Pecha Kucha presentation, for which a prize will be awarded.

Proposals for poster presentations are also invited. If your proposal is for a poster presentation, please indicate this clearly in the title when submitting via EasyChair. A prize will be awarded for the best poster. Posters will this year be shown in electronic format throughout the conference venue.

Proposals for other forms of presentation will also be considered.

Full details are on the QPR website which can be found at: www.qpr.edu.au

For reference, the Easy Chair QPR site can be found at https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=26787068.TT7dfsey9tzeoP5s

Best regards

Alistair

Professor Alistair McCulloch

Chair QPR Organising Committee

Learning & Teaching Unit
University of South Australia
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