Colleagues

The call for papers for QPR2020 has now been released. I think it looks exciting! (I may be a little biased!!) I hope you’ll consider submitting a proposal and attending and would appreciate it if you would circulate the invitation both within your institutions and through any relevant networks of which you are a member.

Thanks,  Alistair.

Quality in Postgraduate Research

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

Held every two years in the beautiful city of 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.

14^th Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference (QPR2020)

Theme: Success in Doctoral Education: Perspectives on Research Training
Submissions Now Open

How is success defined in the context of the PhD? Does the definition vary according to the perspective of the actor doing the defining? Whose definition is the most powerful? How should we measure success? Does it matter?
It is now accepted that the field of PhD education involves multiple stakeholders and is known by multiple labels. The stakeholders include research degree candidates, supervisors, those employed to support the development of doctoral education, research leaders, universities, governments, industry together with others. The labels include doctoral education, graduate education, research education and research training.  The different labels imply different understandings of the PhD and its purpose, while the various stakeholders each have (or represent) different and sometimes competing interests. These different labels and interests provide a rich theoretical, conceptual and practitioner backdrop from which to explore the way in which success in doctoral is defined, understood, measured and experienced. 

It is in this context that the 14th Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference (QPR2020) invites contributions addressing the theme of: Success in doctoral education: perspectives on research training

The Conference Committee invites contributors to think broadly about the ways in which different actors in the doctoral space understand and study the definition, practice and measurement of success in higher degrees by research with possible topics including, but by no means limited to, the following.  

• Determinants of success in research training, graduate outcomes, destinations and career trajectories
• Measuring success in the doctoral degree, stakeholder perspectives
• From Research Education to Research Training - competing definitions of success in the doctoral space
• Power, authority and definitions of success in doctoral education
• Doctoral success in an era of internationalisation and globalisation
• Success in the doctoral space – the contribution of alternative models of the PhD 
• Work Integrated Learning, placements and industry-based PhDs 
• Improving equitable access to the research degree – how would we measure success?
• Supervisors, supervisory practice and PhD success in a digital age - using digital means to enhance success in research degrees  
• What does success mean in research degree examination?
• Doctoral candidates’ experience, wellbeing and success 
• Success, risk and the choice of projects and research questions chosen by PhD candidates 
• Successful research writing and its development
• Doctoral pedagogies for success - online and in person
• Dissemination and doctoral research - what does success look like?

‘Proposals are invited for expert symposia or roundtable discussions (lasting 90 minutes); full panels involving a number of papers (lasting 90 minutes); individual research, review, integrative, policy or conceptual papers; reports of practice; and, workshops. Individual papers and reports of practice should be designed for presentation during a 25 minute session which includes 8-10 minutes for audience discussion.

Individual research papers and reports of practice should fall into one of the following categories and, to assist their grouping into 90 minute panels, submitters will be asked to indicate under which category their submission should be considered and its likely stage of development at the point of presentation.

• Research papers (papers involving the presentation of empirical data or theoretical developments in the field of doctoral education. Submissions should state whether presenters intend presenting full findings or their early results. Papers addressing the rigorous evaluation of institutional practice may be included in this category.)
• Review, integrative, policy or conceptual papers (not dealing with the presentation of empirical data)
• Practice and innovation papers (dealing with administrative and practice developments, showcases, or experiments and innovations not involving rigorous evaluation)

Please note that each presenter will be limited to a maximum of three appearances on the conference program either as a sole author/presenter or as part of a group authorship/presentation.

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Submissions are now open for Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference 21-22-23 APRIL 2020
National Wine Centre Adelaide.

Submission deadline: Monday, 21 November 2019 at 12:00 noon (Australian Central Standard Time)
Acceptance/Rejection Notification: mid-December 2019
Authorship limits: Each individual may only appear as an author three times within the conference

Keynote speakers & registration details to be released soon!