Professional and practice-based doctorates

Professor Stan Taylor’s report analyses current professional development provision for, and reward and recognition of, supervisory practice in the UK.

Thinking about pairing your PhD journey with a role in consultancy or another industry? It’s definitely possible, but it might require some creativity to shape a career that truly fits you. Combining academic research with practical industry work can be incredibly rewarding. The YCEDE team explores how you might navigate this path.

In advance of the 9th International Conference on Professional & Practice Based Doctorates, Professor Carol Costley provides a retrospective on the conference series, discussing professional and practice-based doctorates. Carol details the origin of the conference series and the development and progression of professional and practice-based doctorates internationally since the first iteration of the conference. In this interview, she discusses understanding the impact and outcomes of professional and practice-based doctorates, their engagement with reflective practice, and how they can enhance access and equity within the doctoral landscape.

In the build up to the 7th International Conference on Professional & Practice Based Doctorates (ICPPD7), a number of the conference keynote presenters have kindly given their time to participate in series of Q&As.

Research emanating from the International Conferences on Professional and Practice-Based Doctorates has been published in the journal, Studies in Continuing Education (published by Taylor and Francis Ltd). 

The traditional examination format for PhD degrees in the UK is the chapter-based dissertation as the basis for oral examination. However pressures to publish prior to thesis submission and hence to allow incorporation of publications as well as other artefacts within the assessment paradigm are challenging this conventional approach.

This report on the Professional Doctorate (PD) in the UK was commissioned by the UKCGE to inform debate on the design, validation, audit and relevance of PDs to the needs and aspirations of the doctoral candidate, the requirements of Universities, the industrial and professional employers and society at large.

The purpose of this 2010 report is to give an informed update on the position in the UK of the professional doctorate.

This report and discussion paper is about the Professional Doctorate Award in the UK – focussing upon the range of awards available and the nomenclatures used.

This 2004 report is concerned with the award of a doctorate on the basis of published works submitted by a candidate.