“I want to be coachable, but not a doormat.” That was a comment I heard during a recent conversation with a doctoral student who was describing an experience they had with their dissertation chair.

Once you have passed your comprehensive exams, the time has come for you to complete the dissertation proposal. In this memo, I give you some of my thoughts on ways to approach the proposal. Also, I ...

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This course consists of a project which will be undertaken throughout the second year of the degree. Students will choose between an academic dissertation or a capstone project. The academic ...

Six University of Delaware doctoral students have won dissertation prizes for outstanding work in their disciplines — including chemical engineering, art history, criminology, physics, human ...

In the wake of 2020, responding to changes in the world and in academic job markets, Brandeis’s English faculty decided to change the structure and requirements of their PhD program. Among these ...

I never had a dissertation defense. My department had abolished them sometime before I arrived as a graduate student, and I considered myself lucky compared with friends at other universities who had ...

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Gender, MSc in Gender (Research), MSc in Gender (Sexuality), MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation, MSc in Gender, Media and Culture, MSc in Gender, ...

Are you working on online education programs at your school? Have you interacted with an online program management company as part of this work? If the answers are yes to both of these questions, I ...

Three academics at one of Turkey's top universities have been sacked after a student made a pornographic film for his dissertation project. Bilgi University in Istanbul has shut its film department, ...