Henrik Hassel
Avdelningschef
Exploring the conditions for PhD-students to develop abilities to independently formulate research questions
Förutsättningar för utveckling av doktoranders förmåga att självständigt formulera forskningsfrågor
Författare
Summary, in English
Developing an ability to independently formulate research questions is an important goal in doctoral education. During a seminar in the “Docent course”, accredited by Genombrottet at Lund University, the authors behind this paper ended up in a discussion on the actual conditions for developing such ability. During the discussions, the authors, based on their own experiences, identified several conditions that could hamper the PhD-students’ abilities to develop the skills required to independently formulate research questions. Examples of such conditions were: involvement in projects where objectives and deliverables already were stated by a funder, a lack of discussions with supervisors early in the PhD-process, and/or a lack of proper training. The authors also discussed if working with a compilation thesis automatically lead to contrived overall research questions, which resulted primarily as an afterthought at a very late stage in the process.
Avdelning/ar
- Riskhantering (CI)
- Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet
- Centre for Societal Resilience
- Avdelningen för Biomedicinsk teknik
- Centrum för analys och syntes
Publiceringsår
2015
Språk
Engelska
Dokumenttyp
Rapport
Förlag
Lund University
Ämne
- Engineering and Technology
Status
Published