Professional and practice-based doctorates

In advance of the 9th International Conference on Professional & Practice Based Doctorates, Professor Carol Costley provides a retrospective on the conference series, discussing professional and practice-based doctorates. Carol details the origin of the conference series and the development and progression of professional and practice-based doctorates internationally since the first iteration of the conference. In this interview, she discusses understanding the impact and outcomes of professional and practice-based doctorates, their engagement with reflective practice, and how they can enhance access and equity within the doctoral landscape.

In the build up to the 7th International Conference on Professional & Practice Based Doctorates (ICPPD7), a number of the conference keynote presenters have kindly given their time to participate in series of Q&As.

This report on the Professional Doctorate (PD) in the UK was commissioned by the UKCGE to inform debate on the design, validation, audit and relevance of PDs to the needs and aspirations of the doctoral candidate, the requirements of Universities, the industrial and professional employers and society at large.

This report is based on a survey conducted in March 2010 aimed at establishing an overview of current trends in practice among UK institutions with respect to addressing issues of confidentiality as they pertain to PhD theses in the UK

The purpose of this 2010 report is to give an informed update on the position in the UK of the professional doctorate.

This report and discussion paper is about the Professional Doctorate Award in the UK – focussing upon the range of awards available and the nomenclatures used.

The report gives some background to the issue of confidentiality of theses, outlines the nature and scope of the survey and then reports and discusses its findings before setting out some conclusions.

This 2004 report is concerned with the award of a doctorate on the basis of published works submitted by a candidate.

This report summarises the work and recommendations of the UK Council for Graduate Education’s Working Group on Research Training in the Healthcare Professions, which was established in 2001. The report was published in 2003

This report reflects—and reflects on—the rapid growth during the past decade of a qualification commonly referred to as the Professional Doctorate