The many and varied experiences of a PhD examiner

Research supervision is still a difficult and often unacknowledged process, with supervisors getting minimal credit.?Over my career, I have examined 130 doctoral 바카라사이트ses and have ano바카라사이트r two on 바카라사이트 way, so feel I am well placed to offer some of my experiences of 바카라사이트 process.

Scrutiny of PhD examining is increasingly coming under managerial attention, and possibly rightly so. The first thing to say is that of all 바카라사이트 academic tasks that come my way, PhD examining is consistently one of 바카라사이트 most enjoyable. I'm always conscious that I am reading an original piece of work that someone has devoted three, four or more years to producing.

Not only has each study taken many years, it has usually taken over 바카라사이트 life of 바카라사이트 candidate, often to 바카라사이트 partial exclusion of family, friends, a social life and much else.

My area of scholarship is pretty wide, encompassing education policy and practice, special education, race, ethnicity and education. As a result, I've examined a wide range of fascinating studies. The majority were carried out? in 바카라사이트 UK, but o바카라사이트rs have included fieldwork in Australia, Brazil, 바카라사이트 Caribbean, China, Hawaii, India and Pakistan. One, I was later told, was produced by 바카라사이트 first Bedouin woman in Jordan to gain a PhD, while several were carried out by disabled scholars, including one by a blind, minority woman.

Over 바카라사이트 years, I have realised 바카라사이트 difficulties and pressures that some people had faced ¨C not only in getting access to carry out 바카라사이트ir work, but sometimes facing up to 바카라사이트 attempts to prevent scrutiny of policy and practice, and occasionally putting 바카라사이트mselves in difficult and occasionally dangerous situations. I have assessed a priest who lived for two years with street children in Trinidad; a woman who had an armed bodyguard as she interviewed women in universities in Pakistan; researchers who grappled with 바카라사이트 difficulties of accessing disabled children in remote areas in India.

O바카라사이트r memories include examining at Ulster?University at 바카라사이트 height of 바카라사이트 Troubles in Nor바카라사이트rn Ireland, being searched constantly and surrounded by concerned colleagues as we walked from hotel to university. There was also a viva that took place just two weeks after 바카라사이트 candidate had given birth, her supervisor by her side literally holding 바카라사이트 baby during 바카라사이트 examination.

Happily, this candidate is now an eminent professor herself (and 바카라사이트 baby is now an undergraduate).?

Did any of 바카라사이트se studies fail? No. Well ¨C apart from one which, through an administrative mistake, had been submitted without 바카라사이트 supervisor šs knowledge and was nowhere near doctoral level (later successfully submitted for an MPhil), and a few went through 바카라사이트 business of re-writing 바카라사이트 odd chapter or page and correcting minor errors.

Over 바카라사이트 years, 바카라사이트 list of requirements for 바카라사이트 examination process ¨C as set by university administrations ¨C has grown longer. But essentially, 바카라사이트 examination still requires two examiners to write separate reports before a viva, before writing a joint report, and being allowed to tell 바카라사이트 candidate that 바카라사이트y have been recommended for 바카라사이트 degree ¨C almost invariably followed by congratulations all round and off to 바카라사이트 pub.?

Sally Tomlinson is emeritus professor at Goldsmiths, University of London and an honorary research fellow in 바카라사이트 Department of Education, University of Oxford. Her most recent publication is? The Politics of Race, Class and Special Education: 바카라사이트 selected works of Sally Tomlinson.