Catherine Manathunga is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Victoria University Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand and is an historian, who draws together expertise in historical, sociological and cultural studies research to bring an innovative, interdisciplinary perspective to educational research, particularly focusing on the tertiary sector. She has current research projects on doctoral supervision pedagogy, doctoral graduate outcomes and attributes, interdisciplinarity and the history of university teaching and learning in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Her earlier research was on developing students’ intercultural knowledge and communication skills at the tertiary level. She has published a co-authored monograph on educational history, A class of its own: a history of Queensland University of Technology; a co-edited oral history monograph, Making a place: an oral history of academic development in Australia; and has published in Australian, Irish, American and British journals in the fields of international relations, higher education and academic development. She has a book contract with Routledge to write a sole-authored monograph provisionally entitled Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision to be completed by 30 November 2012.
Category: Networks of Doctorate and Higher Education Scholars
Margaret Kiley
Dr. Margaret Kiley works in the Center for Higher Education, Learning and Teaching at the Australian National University (ANU). Her research expertise for over fifteen years has been in research education including: the examination of theses; experiences of international students undertaking research degrees; candidates and supervisors’ conceptions of research; and candidates and supervisors’ expectations of the research experience.
Margaret has been awarded several Australian Learning and Teaching Council research grants including: mapping Honours across Australian universities, examining the curriculum in Australian universities which support the skill development doctoral candidates; pathways into the Australian doctorate; and the possible role of coursework masters in preparing students for PhD entry. She is also a CI on an ARC Discovery grant looking at the role of the oral exam in the doctoral assessment process and a member of an ALTC teaching grant related to leadership in supervisor development.
Jeanette Fyffe
Dr. Jeannete Fyffe works in the Curriculum Teaching and Learning Centre (CTLC) at La Trobe Universityin Bundoora, Victoria, Australia as a Curriculum and Academic Developer, responsible for programs for tutors and new academic staff.
Professor Fyffe was awarded her PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Melbourne in 2003 and was previously the Academic Programs and Projects Coordinator in the School of Graduate Research there. In this role Jeanette was responsible for the postgraduate supervision development program, and for facilitating good practice in departments and faculties in the management and support of research higher degree students.
Terry Evans
Dr. Terry Evans is a professor in the School of Education at Deakin University in Geelong, Australia. He is recognised internationally for his publications, research and scholarship in doctoral education and policy, and in open and distance education. He is on the editorial boards of ten international journals and is the editor or co-editor of fourteen books including: Doctorates Downunder: key to successful doctoral study in Australian and New Zealand Second Edition (with C Denholm, Melbourne, ACER, 2012); International Handbook of Distance Education (with M Haughey & D Murphy, Bingley, UK, Emerald Publishing); Supervising Doctorates Downunder: keys to successful supervision in Australian and New Zealand (with C Denholm, Melbourne, ACER, 2007)
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Jorge Balan
Dr. Jorge Balan is an Argentine sociologist who has published extensively on comparative higher education policy, academic and labor mobility, rural-to-urban and international migration, and regional development in Latin America. He contributes regularly to International Higher Education, a leading newsletter, and has published with Philip G. Altbach a book on World-Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America (Johns Hopkins University Press), with translations published in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.
He is currently a Senior Research Scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, where he has responsibilities within the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Global Centers program, and is an external researcher with the Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad, a leading Argentine think tank based in Buenos Aires.
Dr. Balan was awarded a PhD degree in sociology at The University of Texas at Austin and gained postdoctoral awards from the Social Science Research Council in New York and the John S. Guggenheim Foundation. He held faculty appointments with major universities in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, the United States, and Canada. Between 1998 and 2006 he was Senior Program Officer responsible for the international higher education policy portfolio at The Ford Foundation in New York. He has frequently advised governments, international agencies, and philanthropic organizations on social science research and policy issues. In the last few years he has been a consultant with UNESCO’s regional office for science in Latin America, based in Montevideo, Uruguay and was a member of the Research Advisory Committee of The Lumina Foundation, in Indianapolis.
Setting International Research Agendas
Forces and Forms of Doctoral Education Worldwide workshops have contributed to develop research agendas among more than 60 experts on doctoral education from the six continents. This effort, coordinated and lead by CIRGE, has encouraged and generated a multi-national perspective of the issues that are re-shaping the doctoral education around the world.
See in the detail the outcomes of these workshops
Forces & Forms I on Doctoral Education – Seattle – United States 2005
Forces & Forms II on Doctoral Education – Melbourne – Australia 2007
Forces & Forms III on Doctoral Education – Kassel – Germany 2009
Forces and Forms of Change in Doctoral Education Worldwide and Their Impact on South East Asia- 2010
NSF Welcome – Carol Stoel
Welcome to the first day of the conference! Despite being unable to join us, Carol Stoel, from the NSF, was kind enough to prerecord a welcome statement for us. Her speech, which will be played at the conference this morning, will serve as a welcome to those of you who are following along via the Internet.
Toward a Global PhD? now in Chinese
CIRGE’s book Toward a Global PhD? (University of Washington, 2008), edited by Maresi Nerad and Mimi Heggelund has been getting national and international coverage. It was recently translated into Chinese and published in China. In addition, the National Science Board’s Science and Engineering Indicators 2010 includes a sidebar that displays the global trends in doctoral education identified in the book.