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Professional Development Of Research Supervisors: A Capacity-Building, Participatory Framework, Kevin Petrie, Gina Lemke, Anthony Williams, Brett G. Mitchell, Maria T. Northcote, Malcolm Anderson, Kayle De Waal
Professional Development Of Research Supervisors: A Capacity-Building, Participatory Framework, Kevin Petrie, Gina Lemke, Anthony Williams, Brett G. Mitchell, Maria T. Northcote, Malcolm Anderson, Kayle De Waal
Anthony Williams
The professional development of supervisors of higher degree research students is growing in importance and undergoing change, based on the demand for timely completion of higher degrees and the Australian federal government’s quality agenda driving improvement of practice. Research has informed the design of research supervision frameworks within large universities (Carton & Kelly, 2014; Luca et al., 2013) but smaller institutions face different issues, including the challenge of developing an active research culture.
This paper reports on the outcomes of an institution-wide project that was conducted in a small, private higher education institution involving the development and …