doctoral education: student and faculty perspectives
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Doctoral Education: Student and Faculty Perspectives. Dr Ian Kinchin & Dr Camille Kandiko King’s College London. Joseph Novak: Concept mapping. ANIMALS. can be. INVERTEBRATE. VERTEBRATE. M O R E S P E C I F I C. mostly. can be. are. COLD BLOODED. WARM BLOODED. ARTHROPODS. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Doctoral Education: Student and Faculty Perspectives
Dr Ian Kinchin & Dr Camille KandikoKing’s College London
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CONCEPT MAP
CONCEPT MAP-Mediated interview
CONTENT
PROCESS
Participants Focus Activity Artefact
PhD student
PhD supervisor
CONCEPT MAP-Mediated interview
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CONCEPT MAP
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
Joseph Novak: Concept mapping
INVERTEBRATE
ANIMALS
VERTEBRATE
can be
MARINETERRESTRIAL
e.g. crabs, lobsters
e.g. beetles,flies
FEATHERSFUR
e.g. robins, penguins
e.g. sheep,cats
COLDBLOODED
ARTHROPODS WARMBLOODED
can be insulated with
aremostly can be
TEACHING
ACCEPTED KNOWLEDGE
REPRODUCTION
ASSESSMENT
transmits
to students for
for
LINEAR CYCLIC
TEACHING
PERSONAL UNDERSTANDING
DISCIPLINESTUDENTS
constructofa basis for
responsive to
of
starts with
use study
within aPRIOR
KNOWLEDGE
relates to
PhD
Writing
Presentation skills
Management of frustrations
Fun, exciting, enjoy, engaged
Experience in supervision of younger students
Prepare to be independent scientist
Transferable skills
A piece of original research
An expert in a specific field
An expert in the literature
Understand the literature and come up with testable hypothesis
Design an experiment to test hypothesis
Evaluate results of experiment critically
Relate it back to the literature and generate new hypotheses
Involves
Overall aim
Is
To become
Through becoming
To
Then
To
Eventually
Continuous process
- Lab - Department - Meetings - Thesis
- Papers
Organisation - time - data
Communicate findings
Interpersonal relationships; in-group team member
Faculty 1a (Senior supervisor)
Presenting project
Evolution of project Map 1a
Develop new ideas/ directions
What works
What does not work
Dead end?
Learning to make
choices
Try different things?
Skills
Strengths Weaknesses
Molecular biology/ computer-based work
Embryology/ fine manipulation
Question: Should she improve these? Is it necessary? If it is, how to improve?
Learn to read (in a technical sense)
Understand
Synthesise
Discuss/ interpret
Student often start here
Think, make her own plans
Self-reflection
Bottleneck
Students don’t understand how much work goes into reading/ researching
Faculty 1b (Junior supervisor)
Work Study
Learn about the international scientific community
Learn to work with different people
Learn in depth a certain part of a subject
Learn to communicate scientific knowledge
Publish and getting a title
Responsibility Patient Hard working
Deal with frustration
PhD is
1 5 4 6
2 7 3 4
Aim
But to publish you have to be
Creative
7
Take your time to learn
6
Learn to handle pressure
4
Work on several things
8
Learn to think on your own
Learn to think on your own
Learn the techniques
Work as a group
2 7
5
Student 1
Diet
Adult Neurogenesis in Hippocampus
Researched Molecular Mechanisms
Mood
Omega 3 Fatty Acids
Intermittent fasting
through
impacts on?
impacts on? induces
moderates?
Is part of
Cell Culture
Animal Work
study with
study with
study with
study with
will lead to selection for
IN VITRO IN VIVO
Klotho
Up regulates
Up or down regulated in
increases influences
lead to
Resveratrol
induces PPAR
regulates
tested in
Molecular biology Statistics Immunohistochemistry
Microscopy involves Being used as a model of measuring
Faculty 2
AHN in dentate gyrus
Genes Klotho
Downstream genes
Depression
(Animal model) may not get to this
Up/down regulation with siRNA/ Vector
Omega 3
Diet
RSVL Resveratrol
PPAR
Inclusion(?) downstream genes
Tissue culture
Stress model
Effect Proliferation Differentiation
Student 2
“nascent cycle”
faculty career cycle
faculty view
student view
Is linearity a result of the “pedagogisation” of the PhD?
Further reading:
Kandiko, C.B. and Kinchin, I.M. (2012)What is a PhD? Process versus product in PhD supervision.Educational Research, In Press