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Conclusion: The Transformations in Doctoral Education—A Comprehensive and Critical Approach

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This concluding chapter revisits the central themes that have emerged throughout the book, framed by the different contributions, by systematising them in a critical way. It stresses the deep structural and institutional transformations occurring in the forms and contents, locus of delivery and recipients of doctoral education, while discussing how these transformations are responding to social, political and students’ expectations. The chapter also critically reflects on the direction(s) doctoral education may take. It is expected this critical assessment to be useful not only for the next generation of doctoral candidates and their supervisors but also for policymakers, institutional leaders as well as potential employers, both inside and outside academia.

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    Teresa Carvalho

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    Teresa Carvalho & Sónia Cardoso

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    Sónia Cardoso

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Carvalho, T., Cardoso, S. (2020). Conclusion: The Transformations in Doctoral Education—A Comprehensive and Critical Approach. In: Cardoso, S., Tavares, O., Sin, C., Carvalho, T. (eds) Structural and Institutional Transformations in Doctoral Education. Issues in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38046-5_13

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