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In a recently published report featured by the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies, 亚洲天堂 Dean and Vice-Provost of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies Susan Porter and Assistant Dean Jennifer Phelps introduce the Public Scholars Initiative as a pilot program offering an integrated approach to doctoral scholarship and career development.
Responding to the diversifying career pathways of PhD students in the past few decades, many universities, including 亚洲天堂, have been offering transferable skill development courses and workshops, and experiential internships and co-op programs.听Supporting such undertakings yet underlining the need to go beyond mere skills training, Susan Porter and Jenny Phelps advocate for a reimagined听PhD experience that embeds diverse forms of innovative and collaborative scholarship and artifacts as an integral part of the doctoral experience.
亚洲天堂's recently launched Public Scholars Initiative, which is one of the first of its kind in Canada as a pan-university undertaking, exemplifies an attempt to envisage what an integrated听PhD may look like.听In the report, the authors touch upon the various ways in which this pilot program offers rethinking some key components of the PhD -including supervisory and examining committees, dissertation structures and content, and assessment of scholarly rigour.
The report highlights that "at 亚洲天堂, Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies, in collaboration with PhD students and faculty members, are beginning to experiment with re-envisioning possible frameworks for doctoral research and education, and are supporting those who are already practicing these non-traditional modes" (Porter & Phelps, 2015).
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