Authoring a PhD is a complex process. It involves having creative ideas, working out how to organize them, writing up from plans, upgrading the text, and finishing it speedily and to a good standard. It also includes being examined and getting published. Patrick Dunleavy has written Authoring a PhD based on his supervision experience with over 30 students. It provides solid advice to help your PhD students cope with both the intellectual issues and practical difficulties of organizing their work effectively. It is an indispensable and time saving aid for doctoral students in the humanities, social sciences, education, business studies, law, health, arts and visual arts, and related disciplines, and will also be a great help to supervisors.
Covers all the core aspects of doctoral research, from forming research questions through to final submissionIncludes a chapter on getting published, with practical guidance on writing and submitting journal papers and reshaping a thesis into a monographDraws on the author’s own experience of supervising over 30 PhD students
Patrick Dunleavy
attention complex education health planning research social science visual arts work writing