Professional Doctorates in the Built Environment: How Higher Education is Responding to the Changing

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Professional Doctorates in the Built Environment
How Higher Education is Responding to the
Changing Needs of Industry the Professions
Paul Chynoweth
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The doctoral qualification..
..and the role of the PhD
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Changing requirements for doctoral education..

• Criticisms of the UK PhD in the 1990s
• Increasing complexity of the working
  environment
• Requirements of the professional institutions
• Increasing demand for higher academic
  qualifications

..and the response by Higher Education
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• First professional doctorates appeared in the
  UK in 1992
• By 2005, 186 programmes across 51 universities
  (with 27 more in the
• course of development)

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Professional Doctorates Defining Characteristics

• Aimed at the scholarly professional- not the
  professional scholar
• Workplace based students / part-time study
• Part of a cohort with fellow professionals
• Research conducted within students areas of
  expertise
• High levels of initial support (typically
  through a taught element)
• Programme should unlock students tacit
  professional knowledge
• Use of experiential learning / reflective
  practice / action learning
• Outputs will typically be applied research /
  action research
• Patterns of assessment may differ from PhD

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Professional Doctorates in the Built Environment
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The Salford Programme
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