The proliferation of online graduate programs, and more recently, higher education
institutions' moves to online interactions due to the COVID-19 crisis, have led to graduate …

Feedback is a complex socio-cultural construct, utilising various modalities over the lifespan
of a research candidature. This study reports findings from a review of global literature on …

ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) have hit
higher education by storm. Much of the research focuses on how this–and similar–tools can …

Across the globe, doctoral education is in the throes of change. Diversification, regulation
and proliferation are just a few of the developments that pose major challenges for those …

The aim of this systematic literature review was to ascertain the best practice available to
provide high-quality online support to students during their thesis stage of an Online …

Effective mentoring has been viewed as the cornerstone of a successful doctoral
experience. Traditional doctoral education uses an apprenticeship model for mentoring to …

In an effort to understand trends in open and distance education more comprehensively, this
study aims to identify the research trends, major concepts, and cutoff points in the articles …

This systematic review captures research on doctoral students' perspectives of supervision.
The aim was to capture research on aspects of importance to enhance professional …

The supervision of doctoral students has been evolving in the last decade. Supervisors
supervise students on campus or at a distance and supervision takes place in formal or …

The global pandemic has forced academics to engage in remote doctoral supervision, and
the need to understand this activity is greater than ever before. This contribution involved a …