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Henrik Hassel

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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

  • Christian Antfolk
  • Douglas Di Julio
  • Henrik Hassel
  • Ying Zhen Li
  • Christian Uhr
  • Baozhong Zhang

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