Course Supervision Challenges in PhD Education
(2012) LTHs 7:e Pedagogiska Inspirationskonferens, 2012 In Pedagogiska inspirationskonferensen LTH 7.- Abstract
- A large portion of the PhD education in Sweden is dedicated to courses. This made it interesting to explore potential course supervision challenges in the PhD programme. A multiple-case study was conducted to identify such challenges and explore how these are perceived by students and supervisors at the Faculty of Engineering of Lund University. By interviewing students and supervisors in five different research groups, insights were gained into how the main stakeholders reason about courses. The findings indicate that courses that are to be included in the education are characterized by a large degree of freedom tailored to individual student needs and preferences. However, the type, timing, availability, value, and convalidation of... (More)
- A large portion of the PhD education in Sweden is dedicated to courses. This made it interesting to explore potential course supervision challenges in the PhD programme. A multiple-case study was conducted to identify such challenges and explore how these are perceived by students and supervisors at the Faculty of Engineering of Lund University. By interviewing students and supervisors in five different research groups, insights were gained into how the main stakeholders reason about courses. The findings indicate that courses that are to be included in the education are characterized by a large degree of freedom tailored to individual student needs and preferences. However, the type, timing, availability, value, and convalidation of courses are challenges that limit this freedom. (Less)
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- author
- Blomé, Mikael LU ; Hellström, Daniel LU ; Kovács, Gyöngyi LU ; Zetterberg, Johan LU and Åkesson, Johan LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2012
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Supervision, Education, Courses, SoTL, Technology and Engineering, Packaging logistics
- categories
- Higher Education
- host publication
- 7:e Pedagogiska Inspirationskonferensen 2012
- series title
- Pedagogiska inspirationskonferensen LTH
- volume
- 7
- pages
- 3 pages
- publisher
- Lund University
- conference name
- LTHs 7:e Pedagogiska Inspirationskonferens, 2012
- conference location
- Lund, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2012-08-30 - 2012-08-30
- ISSN
- 2003-3761
- 2003-377X
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 6ec4d487-36ae-494f-932c-026dca20cab3 (old id 2542518)
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-04 14:26:33
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