Resource library

Kamler, B. and Thompson, P. (2006)

Routledge, London

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.

Pearce, L. (2005)

Buckingham: Open University Press and Society for Research into Higher Education.

Campbell, S.P., Fuller, A.K., Patrick, D.A.G. (2005)

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 3(3): 153–60.

Neumann, R. (2005)

Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 27(2): 173–88

Grant, B. (2005)

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 18(3): 337–54

Gatfield, T. (2005)

Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 27(3): 311–25

Ahern, K., Manathunga, C. (2004)

Innovative Higher Education 28, 237–254

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