Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides the most comprehensive roadmap to a successful PhD completion, thus offering a useful guide for aspiring and existing doctoral students in business and management disciplines and the social sciences (including, inter alia, international business, marketing, management, management education, organisation studies, tourism and hospitality, accounting, finance, law, and economics). The book is written for a global audience of prospective and existing postgraduate researchers (PGRs) and can be used and implemented as a core text in PhD induction programmes, across countries. Academic supervisors too should find this book a valuable resource on how they can fulfil their responsibility to guide PGRs toward a successful completion of their doctorate. Specific practical guidance is informed, at strategic points throughout the text, by stories of the lived experience of past PGRs as well as the authors’ personal professional anecdotes and real-life examples of «how to» and «how not to».
This compendium of useful information and tools draws from the authors’ decades of experience in teaching at all levels of educational provision (from undergraduate programmes through to the Doctorate of Business Administration), publishing in academic journals of high repute, successful PhD supervision and examining (in the UK and abroad), and in their roles as strategic and academic directors of doctoral programmes in different UK universities.
Table of ContentsContents: Glauco De Vita: The nature of doctoral research and becoming a postgraduate researcher – Jason Begley: How to write a PhD application and academic proposal – David Bowen: Completing a literature review – Jason Begley and Glauco De Vita: The key attributes of an excellent PhD thesis – Glauco De Vita: Managing up, managing your time and managing your wellbeing – Jason Begley: Making the most of training and development opportunities – Jason Begley: Strategies to deal with difficulties and major crises – David Bowen: Annual progress reviews – David Bowen: Talking about, presenting and publicising your research – Glauco De Vita: Final checks of the thesis, preparing the viva and dealing with amendments – Glauco De Vita: All you wanted to know about publishing from your PhD but never dared ask! – Glauco De Vita: Preparing for life after the PhD and career options.
