From: Peter Steane [mailto:
Peter.Steane@mgsm.edu.au]
Dear Jacob
Can I endorse Ken's advise to you and suggest - forgive this
self-promotion - my just published book (with Burton) Surviving Your
Thesis (2004), Routledge, London [ISBN 0415322227 PB; ISBN 0415322219
HB]. It deals with many of the areas Ken mentioned, but takes a
comparative view across different countries: negotiating with
supervisors - their responsibilities and the students, different
methodological approaches (with a list of resources), styles of writing
in research (depending on the discipline), and the first steps in
publishing from your work. It also addresses the issue of overseas
students who undertake doctoral studies in another (Western) culture
(which may have different epistemological approaches to the students
home country). You may also find this of assistance.
Regards
Peter
Professor Peter Steane PhD
Director International Corporate & Executive Education
Deputy Director International Programs
Macquarie Graduate School of Management.
Macquarie University, Ryde, NSW, 2109, AUSTRALIA.
Email:
peter.steane@mqsm.edu.au
cucullus non facit monachum
-----Original Message-----
Dear Jacob,
Even though you seem to ask for single, short book, the questions you
ask aren't really answered by any one title I know.
Instead, I'll recommend four books. The first is written for - and to
- students. Once you browse the relvant chapters, you can loan the book
to your student.
Peters, Robert L. 1997. Getting What You Came For. The Smart Student's
Guide to Earning a Master's or Ph.D. New York: The Noonday Press.
The second book is written for advisors. It is in the same series as the
Phillips and Pugh title.
Delamont, Sara, Paul Atkinson, and Odette Parry. Supervising the PhD.
A Guide to Success. Buckingham, England, and Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania: Open University Press.
It is a nice, compact guide.
One are in which supervisors can be particularly helpful is in inducting
doctoral candidates to the world of scholarship. Too few books discuss
these issues. Two books contain advice I wish someone had given me when
I was earning my PhD. Even though one is written for the natural
sciences and the other for psychology, they both apply to management
studies and the social sciences in general:
Feibelman, Peter J. 1993. A Ph.D. Is Not Enough! A Guide to Survival in
Science. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
Sternberg, Robert J. 2004. Psychology 101 1/2. The Unspoken Rules for
Success in Academia. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological
Association.
Hope these help.
Best regards,
Ken Friedman
p.s. My hat is off to Dundar Kocaoglu for his useful discussion of the
supervising process at Portland State University Engineering and
Technology Management Department.
-snip-
Sometime in the near future I will be embarking on supervising (or
co-) my first PhD student. I am excited about it and looking forward to
the experience. Since this is one skill our (and they may be few
exceptions) academic programs do not prepare us for--at least
formally--I felt the need for researching and identifying some resources
that can assist a novice such as myself with this process.
I was wondering if you had any recommendations of a solid text that is
helpful in this regard. My preference would be for a text that is:
1. Not too long...
2. Combines theoretical/research approach with experiential/first-hand
accounts
3. Specific to Management (or at least Social Sciences).
-snip-
--
Ken Friedman
Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Department of Leadership
and Organization Norwegian School of Management
Design Research Center
Denmark's Design School
Faculty of Art, Media, and Design
Staffordshire University (Visiting)
+46 (46) 53.245 Telephone
email:
ken.friedman@bi.no
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