Professional and practice-based doctorates

Professor Stan Taylor’s report analyses current professional development provision for, and reward and recognition of, supervisory practice in the UK.

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.

The traditional examination format for PhD degrees in the UK is the chapter-based dissertation as the basis for oral examination. However pressures to publish prior to thesis submission and hence to allow incorporation of publications as well as other artefacts within the assessment paradigm are challenging this conventional approach.

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.

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.

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

This report presents the findings of the working group established in 1999 by the UK Council for Graduate Education to explore the issue of research training for post-graduate students in the creative and performing arts and design.