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Doctoral Education and New Managerialism

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Discourse, Power, and Resistance Down Under

Part of the book series: Transgressions ((TRANS))

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In keeping with the theme of the 2012 Australian DPR-AQR conference: Embodying good research—What counts and who decides?, this chapter examines the impact of new managerialism on doctoral research and supervision. The arguments forwarded here are: (1) that good research at the doctoral level is endangered by new managerialist concerns focused on timely completions, the meeting of arbitrary milestones and accountability processes; (2) that good doctoral level research education is at risk of compromise through workload pressures on supervisors; and (3) that impoverished research culture and zealous management practices have potential to reinscribe what counts as good research.

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    Julie White

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    Mark Vicars

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    Tarquam McKenna

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White, J. (2013). Doctoral Education and New Managerialism. In: Vicars, M., McKenna, T. (eds) Discourse, Power, and Resistance Down Under. Transgressions. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-509-0_18

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