It happens in a university. So it is a learning journey. A capacity development program. To know how to do the things that are required in contemporary research practice inside university employment
To support people keen to enter academia, university life as academics.
Caveat? Yes. There is a typology. So roughly three types.
You could already be employed in a university as an academic. So this is an enhancement of research capability.
You are a graduate student. You wish to acquire a PhD to apply for a university academic position.
You are a creative practitioner - designer, architect, artist - and have heard that a PhD journey is transformative.
I have been supervising PhDs for 20 years. The PhDs I have supervised initially were just mid career PhDs. Then they were academics in my university, colleagues. Then, only later, much later do I start supervising recent graduates. Which might mean that I have a series of templates to support diverse - haha - different kinds of PhD candidates. Yes. I do have templates.
I also examine PhDs. I have been doing this for some time. This gives me an in into the cultures of writing, project construction and levels of rigour that characterise PhDs in different universities in Australia. And also - cultures of PhDs in other parts of the world.
I have a podcast. I have received requests for episodes on this or that topic - from PhD students. So I have episodes on Embodiement, Temperament, Literature Review and generally the PhD project construction. As a designer - as a designer who has worked inside manufacturing. As someone who was an engineer before he became a designer - I have seen many forms of project construction:
The hard-set framing of projects. Where everything is visualized and every step of the project is specified.
The emergent ways of construction of projects. Where the framing is curious, loosely structured and envisages a few pivots through the project.
My grant applications, and grant funded hospital work would be of the #1 type.
My long research projects in waste, mobility and diabetes are of the #2 type.