The Global Scholar : Implications for Postgraduate Studies and Supervision.

Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Introduction: The Global Scholar -- INTRODUCTION -- HORIZON -- CURRENCY -- TRAJECTORY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Part One - Horizons -- Chapter 1: Opportunities and challenges of international research experiences during doctoral studies in a globalised doctoral education world -- Introduction -- Defining international research experience -- Background of international research experience -- International research activities -- Overall recommendations: Preare for challenges and share lessons learned -- Conclusion -- Afterword from Seattle, Washington, in May 2020 -- References -- Chapter 2: Doctoral education as a field of global scholarship - An analysis of Anglophone published research -- Introduction -- Background to the study -- Methodology -- Results and discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: The vitae researcher development framework in South African postgraduate education -- Introduction -- The broad South African postgraduate education context -- Decolonising research and researcher development -- The policy framework for South African postgraduate education -- Postgraduate researcher development -- The vitae researcher development framework -- Using the RDF: The university of Johannesburg experience -- Reflections on the applicability of the RDF for postgraduate researcher development in South Africa -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Is international benchmarking appropriate for improving the quality of thesis examination? -- Introduction -- The researcher -- What is benchmarking? -- Possible quality indicators in examination -- Discussion: What might all this mean? -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Part Two - Currents and Currencies -- Chapter 5: The politics of postgraduate education - Supervising in a troubled world.

Introduction -- The relationship between skills, the economy and education -- Human caital theory assumes a meritocracy -- Economic rather than social and environmental development -- The nature of humanity in human capital theory -- Knowledge as skills -- What can be done? I'm just a postgraduate supervisor -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Academic mobility in the digital academy - questions for supervision -- Introduction -- Academic mobility -- What do these two influences mean for supervision? -- Effects of physical mobility of academics -- New practices in supervision -- Conclusion: Do we need a new model of supervision? -- References -- Chater 7: The implications of doctoral mobility for doctoral programme design and supervision -- Introduction and overview -- Academic mobility in numbers -- Definitions and methodology -- Academic mobility in the literature -- Summary of survey findings -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Quality doctoral education in Africa - A question of setting the right standards? -- Introduction -- Current challenges for doctoral education in Africa -- Building PHD capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa and the role of international agencies and partnership -- Doctoral standards, regulations and guidelines in Europe -- The development and implementation of doctoral standards and guidelines in East Africa -- The development and implementation of a doctoral qualification standard in South Africa -- Discussion and conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Part Three - Trajectories -- Chapter 9: The interdisciplinary PHD - Process, outcomes and challenges -- Introduction -- Literature revies -- National perspectives on the interdisciplinary PHD -- Future work on the interdisciplinary PHD -- Conclusion -- References.

Chapter 10: Finding academic jobs in stratified countries - The effects of social class of origin in the development of academic networds for Chilean PHDs -- Introduction -- Chilean income inequality reproduced in the higher education system -- Use of academic networks to secure academic jobs: Evidence from other counties -- Conceptual framework -- Mythodology -- Analytical techniques -- Findings -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Chapter 11: Towards a theoretical framework for exploring emotion in doctoral education - Critically exploring familiar narratives in student experiences -- Introduction -- Unpacking a familiar narrative -- Constructing theoretical framework for researching emotions -- Pulling the framework together: Starting points for researching doctoral emotions -- References -- Chapter 12: Working together beyond the PHD -- Introduction -- Literature review -- Methodology and methods -- Findings -- Data analysis: The continuum of supervisors and graduated students working together - from the 'lightside' and the 'darkside' -- Onward working with the supervisors and graduate student -- Darkside - some negative interactions and stalled relationships -- Further discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- Part Four - Reflections and Directions -- Chapter 13: Reflections on Covid-19 and the Global Scholar -- Introduction -- Covid-19, currents and currencies -- Covid-19 and trajectory -- Covid-19 and horizon -- New directions -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- Contributing authors.

In our rapidly globalising world, "the global scholar" is a key concept for reimagining the roles of academics at the nexus of the global and the local.

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