Universität zu Köln

Lachmann, Daniel, Martius, Thilo, Eberle, Julia, Landmann, Mareike, von Kotzebue, Lena, Neuhaus, Birgit and Herzig, Stefan (2020). Regulations and practices of structured doctoral education in the life sciences in Germany. PLoS One, 15 (7). SAN FRANCISCO: PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE. ISSN 1932-6203

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Abstract

Structured doctoral education is increasingly preferred compared to the individual model. Several science policy organisations give recommendations on how to structure doctoral education. However, there is little research on to what extent these recommendations find their way into practice. In our study, we first compared European and German recommendations on doctoral education with, second, the institutional regulations of structured doctoral programmes (N= 98) in the life sciences at twelve different German universities. Additionally, we third asked doctoral graduates (N= 1796) of these structured doctoral programmes and graduates of individual doctoral studies about their experience in doctoral education. Fourth, we contrasted the regulations of structured doctoral programmes with the reported experiences of their graduates. We found significant deviations of the reported practices of graduates from the regulations of their organisations, regarding the student admission, supervision and curricular activities of doctoral candidates. The efficacy of structured versus traditional doctoral education should be examined based on reported practice rather than on the respective written regulations.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Lachmann, Daniel UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Martius, Thilo UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Eberle, Julia UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Landmann, Mareike UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED von Kotzebue, Lena UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Neuhaus, Birgit UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Herzig, Stefan UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-325480
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0233415
Journal or Publication Title:	PLoS One
Volume:	15
Number:	7
Date:	2020
Publisher:	PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
Place of Publication:	SAN FRANCISCO
ISSN:	1932-6203
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language PHD Multiple languages Multidisciplinary Sciences Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/32548