Doctor of Philosophy

A project to network, peer assist and peer assess people through an equivalent PhD.

Research

All research is pivotal on methods – which requires sound alignment between:

1. World view (philosophical framework)
2. Methodical approach (methodical framework)
3. Methods (operational framework – including the definition of what is data and how it is appraised/analysed).

Methodological approach

• Qualitative research

Methods

• What is research?
• Research design
• Finding research
• Critiquing the literature
• Validity and reliability of data
• Ethics
• Data analysis and visualisation
• Writing
• Getting published
• Grant applications
• Presenting your work

Guides for completing a PhD

• The Gold Book - The University of Canberra's guidebook for research students and supervisors (to be added here)

Coursework

Course work for an OpenPhd occurs in two areas. The courses described in Universal are those shared by everyone doing an OpenPhD. The courses in Specific are a list of courses that each person doing an OpenPhD decides for themselves. This course list should be very comprehensive and include a review of the courses from PhD programs similar to the one being done in the open.

1. a course in advanced research, data collection, ethics... for example Sport research
2. a course in open publishing and social media... for example, some adaption to Open educational resources or Social media
3. It is possible that Sport research could be made more generic
4. This is where it gets fun. Source out a handful of PhD programs similar to the PhD you are completing in the open and build a course list. The list should include some courses you create, complete and teach yourself. A good example of this can be found here http://openphd.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/comparison-chart.pdf

Reading, writing and publishing

• The Directory of Open Access Journals
• Thesis structure - By Dr Mary Walsh

Communications and support

To stay in contact with others who are openly documenting and networking their PhD work, please consider the following:

• The email forum on GoogleGroups: Open and networked PhDs
• Twitter list (I'm a bit unsure on twitterlists, I've created one under my username space.. is there a way to create one in its own name space that anyone can join? And it might be better to call it onphd for open and networked doctor of philosophy) Leighblackall 23:26, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
• tag == onphd and/or nophd. Use these in delicious, youtube, blog posts, etc, and we can each subscribe to the RSS feeds for that tag and track each other's work at a distance.
• The participant's list here on Wikiversity:PhD

Examples of PhDs using Wikiversity

• User:Jtneill/PhD
• User:Cormaggio/Thesis
• User:Leighblackall/PhD
• User:Peterrawsthorne/PhD
• User:SarahStewart/EdD
• User:Steelemaley/PhD

See also

• Collaborative research on Wikiversity
• Networked learning
• Doctor of Philosophy
• Qualitative research