... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Cotutelle programs Doctoral agency Doctoral education Doctoral experience Doctoral student Learning Reflexivity Doctoral education has undergone considerable transformation in recent decades. Reforms have focused on improving...

...Hatice Nuriler; Søren S.E. Bengtsen Purpose Institutional framings of doctoral education mostly do not recognize the existential dimension of doctoral experience. This paper aims to offer an expanded understanding of experiences of doctoral researchers in the humanities with the concept...

... concretely shape a doctoral experience. Analyses were conducted using NVivo 10, following the iterative steps of a “thematic analysis” inspired by Braun and Clarke’s (2006) approach: These questions were addressed through the sociological lens of Giddens’ (1984 / 2005) theory...

... understanding of doctoral students' key learning experiences in the natural science context, by addressing the following research questions: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Academic practices Doctoral education Doctoral experience Key learning experiences Natural science Scholarly...