PhD Induction

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PhD Induction

• Dr. Norma Ryan
• Director
• Quality Promotion
• UCC

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Quality at UCC

• UCC committed to quality of student experience
• As graduate students you are partners in the
  learning on which you are engaged
• As graduates you represent UCC and what UCC is
  about

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PhD Candidate

• Student
• Employee
• Tutor
• Demonstrator
• Examiner
• Member of research team
• Intellectual property rights?
• Recognition of work of student

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Bologna Process

• European Higher Education Area
• 3 cycle system
• Bachelor
• Master
• Doctorate
• National Qualifications Framework
• Credits for elements of student work
• Learning Outcomes

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Learning Outcomes

• Dublin Descriptors
• Role of Supervisor
• How are learning outcomes implemented in the PhD
  Programme?
• How is achievement of learning outcomes
  measured/evaluated?
• Quantification of content learnt

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Knowledge - Breadth

• A systematic acquisition and understanding of a
  substantial body of knowledge which is at the
  forefront of a field of learning

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Knowledge Kind

• The creation and interpretation of new knowledge,
  through original research, or other advanced
  scholarship, of a quality to satisfy review by
  peers

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Know-how and skill Range

• Demonstrate a significant range of the principal
  skills, techniques, tools, practices and/or
  materials which are associated with a field of
  learning develop new skills, techniques, tools
  practices and/or materials.

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Know-how and skill Selectivity

• Respond to abstract problems that expand and
  redefine existing procedural knowledge

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Competence Context

• Exercise personal responsibility and largely
  autonomous initiative in complex and
  unpredictable situations, in professional or
  equivalent contexts.

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Competence Role

• Communicate results and innovation to peers
  engage in critical dialogue lead and originate
  complex social processes

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Competence Leaning to learn

• Learn to critique the broader implications of
  applying knowledge to particular contexts

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Competence Insight

• Scrutinise and reflect on social norms and
  relationships and lead action to change them

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Disciplinary Skills

• Specific to your discipline - a programme of
  investigation
• Varied
• Knowledge
• Experimentation
• Discipline-specific research methodologies
• Development of new knowledge

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Generic Skills

• Also referred to as transferable skills
• Analytical skills
• Research skills
• Computer skills
• Computational skills
• Project management
• Working as a part of a team
• Communication skills

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Employability

• In areas directly related to your discipline
• In industry
• In public sector
• Indicator of value of PhD

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National Academy for the Integration of Research
Teaching Learning

• Established 2007
• Partnership with
• NUIGalway,
• Trinity College Dublin,
• Cork Institute of Technology
• Waterford Institute of Technology

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Activities

• Conferences
• Support of academics in the development of
  scholarship of teaching Learning
• Support for postgraduates in delivery of teaching
• Support for supervisors

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• www.nairtl.ie
• www.ucc.ie/quality