Dear colleagues,

 

Would you like to join us in a roundtable discussion about the emergence of the article-based thesis? We are proposing a roundtable at this year’s EATAW conference and would like to invite more participants to join the discussion.  Our roundtable is taking its point of departure in how the article-based thesis (or “PhD by compilation,” or “thesis by publication”), after being well established in the STEM fields, is now becoming increasingly common in the humanities, social sciences and professional fields. Yet, this development is not without controversy, and we would like to explore some of the different ways of thinking about this genre. Some key questions we would like to explore in the roundtable are:

• How do the controversies surrounding the article-based thesis reflect larger debates about the role of doctoral education?
• What are some of the different views on this genre across geographical, disciplinary, and institutional contexts?
• What kind of support can writing specialists provide to doctoral students, supervisors and doctoral programs that use this dissertation format?

 

We currently have participants from Scandinavia, but wish to broaden the conversation to include voices from other contexts. We are thus particularly looking for participants who could speak to developments and discussions about this dissertation format in other parts of the world. Please get in touch by replying to  kristin.solli@oslomet.no if you would like to join us!

 

Best,  Lynn P. Nygaard and Kristin Solli

 

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