Recognising and supporting PhD students crossing conceptual thresholds
| Grant type: | Development (2000-08) |
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| Round: | October 2005 |
| Amount awarded | £4,538.00 |
| Completed: | March 2007 |
| Leader(s): | Professor Gina Wisker |
| Organisation: | University of Brighton |
| Contact Email: | ginwskr@aol.com |
| Address: | Centre for Learning and Teaching, Falmer, Sussex |
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| Start Date: | 1 February 2006 |
| End Date: | 27 March 2007 |
| Interim report received: | 5 August 2008 |
| Final report received: | 5 August 2008 |
The project team have a well established track record of research into postgraduate student learning, supervisory practices and the PhD examination process. This project builds on research undertaken into recognising, defining and exploring variation in the threshold concepts among undergraduate students (Meyer, Land et al 2003) by focusing on where, when and how to identify the crossing of conceptual thresholds in the work of PhD students. In so doing it focuses on variations in postgraduate student learning and conceptual levels of work at PhD. It also considers supervisory and research programme practices and materials which could better enable PhD students to develop conceptual level work.