How
to Get a Phd: A Handbook for Students and Their Supervisors
"Survival
manual for Ph.D. students, providing a practical, realistic
understanding of the processes of doing research for a doctorate" |
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How
to Get a Phd: A Handbook for Students and Their Supervisors
Editors: Derek Salman Pugh, Estelle M. Phillips
Publisher: Open
Univ Pr; 3rd edition (February 2000); 256 pages
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ePodiatry highly recommends this book for anyone considering
or pursuing a PhD in the UK, Australia, South Africa or New
Zealand (its essential reading)
A
revised and updated (1st ed., 1987) survival manual for Ph.D.
students, providing a practical, realistic understanding of
the processes of doing research for a doctorate. Consideration
is given to the particular problems of groups such as women
and part-time students. The volume also provides practical
information for supervisors, focusing on how to monitor and,
if necessary, improve supervisory practice. It is not as appropriate
for those in the USA as outside the USA, as the PhD systems
are different, but it is important to understand the differences.
Comment
from a reader about How to Get a Phd: A Handbook for Students
and Their Supervisors:
"When
you read this book, you realise that is has captured on paper,
every thought that has gone through your mind regarding your
research degree. You are not alone! It offers good practical
advice on the stages and processes involved in a PhD, and
also on your relationships with supervisors and other research
students. Read It."
Book review of
How to Get a Phd: A Handbook for Students and Their Supervisors:
"Nothing
can quite prepare you for a PhD. For most people, it will
be the longest piece of writing and research you ever undertake
in your life. This book is a guide to the process, and a survival
kit for doctoral candidates.
If you are intending to embark on a research degree it will
introduce you to the system and help you to improve your choice
of university, college, department, and even supervisor. The
first part of the book deals with the process of becoming
a postgraduate student; how to get into the academic system
at this level; and the special demands and exact nature of
the PhD qualification. They are particularly good on the meaning
and structure of a PhD, time management, and the difficulties
of communicating with supervisors and how to overcome them.
There
is then advice on how to do research and a discussion of the
structure required in this form of writing. [In my experience,
it is this aspect of research which floors many students.]
Phillips and Pugh then pass on to the substance of the task
so far as the candidate is concerned - the long slog through
three years of reading, writing, note-taking, and data collection.
They cover the special problems of groups such as women, part-time,
and adult students, plus the tricky issues of dealing with
supervisors and an environment which is based on the deeply
entrenched privileges of old, white, Anglo-Saxon males (some
of them already dead).
And
then suddenly, and rather strangely (though true to its subtitle)
the subject of its address changes from student to tutor.
They discuss how supervisors can improve the support they
give to students - largely by making the effort to see the
process from the student's point of view. As a supervisor
myself, I found this section instructively chastening. They
make a number of useful suggestions for making feedback more
effective, and then end with notes on the responsibilities
which institutions have to provide an adequate overall service
for research students.
This is a book which
is standing the test of time. First published in the 1980s,
new material has been added for the latest (third) edition,
which now includes information technology, publishing your
work, and teaching and working towards a PhD in a practice-based
discipline. There are very few guides to help people at this
level of academic work. Anyone about to embark on the three
year odyssey would do well to read this first - then pass
it on to your supervisor." - Roy Johnson
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