QPR2021: Quality in Post Graduate Research National Wine Centre Adelaide, Australia, April 21-23, 2020

Conference website	http://www.qpr.edu.au
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qpr2020
Abstract registration deadline	November 22, 2019
Submission deadline	November 22, 2019

 

Submission Guidelines

14^th Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference (QPR2020)

Submission deadline

All proposals must be submitted electronically via the Easychair link at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qpr2020 by Monday, 21 October, 2019 at 12.00 noon (Australian Central Standard Time).

Acceptance Notification

In mid-December 2019, you will receive an acceptance or rejection e-mail for each proposal you submitted. If your proposal is not immediately accepted, you may be contacted at a later date to present if spaces become available on the program.

The main author for each accepted proposal will be required to confirm that they accept the invitation to present by Tuesday, 21 January 2020.

For each accepted paper, at least one author will be required to register for and attend the conference.

For expert symposia or roundtable discussions, all participants will be required to register for and attend the conference.

Authorship limits

It is anticipated that the maximum number of times any one individual will appear as the author of a contribution to the conference program is three, and this number may be lowered depending on the overall number and quality of the abstracts that are submitted.

Panel schedule and scheduling requests

Panels are scheduled in time slots beginning at 11:00am on Tuesday 21 April 2020 and conclude at 14:30pm on Thursday 23 April 2020. Participants are expected to be available for any of the time slots.

Please note that due to the complexity of the program, we may be unable to respond positively to scheduling requests

FORMS OF PRESENTATION AND SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Each submission must include:

• The title

• An abstract of no more than 450 words
• A maximum of 4 references
• A statement of which category of paper the submission falls into (see below for details of categories):

• Research papers
• Review, integrative, policy or conceptual papers
• Practice and innovation papers
• Roundtable discussions or expert symposia

Where a full panel comprising a number of papers is being proposed, the submission should include the titles and abstracts/references for each of the papers included in the panel together with a rationale for the panel as a whole.

Submission of individual papers

Paper submissions should be in the form of abstracts of a maximum of 450 words. The abstract should include the paper’s main arguments, methods, and findings/conclusions. Please list up to five keywords to help the program organizers evaluate and place papers in the conference program if accepted.

Papers submissions may be of one of the following types and, if accepted, will be allocated to streams and sessions containing (as far as is possible) similar types of papers.

• Research papers (this category includes papers involving the presentation of empirical data or theoretical developments in the field of doctoral education. Submissions should state whether presenters intend presenting full findings or their early results. Papers addressing the rigorous evaluation of institutional practice may be included in this category.)
• Review, integrative, policy or conceptual papers (papers not dealing with the presentation of empirical data.)
• Practice and innovation papers (papers dealing with administrative and practice developments, showcases, or experiments and innovations not involving rigorous evaluation).

The type of paper or presentation being submitted must be indicated at the beginning of the abstract title and before the actual title.

Round table discussions or expert symposia

A proposal for a round table or expert symposium should comprise no more than two A4 pages of text (in a reasonable font size) and should include a summary of and rationale for the contribution, a description of the proposed structure of the session, and the names and affiliations of participant speakers. A round table or symposium will run for 90 minutes and should address a significant issue of importance to the doctoral education community.

Other forms of presentation

QPR2020 welcomes innovative forms of presentation outwith those identified above and enquiries about the possibility of including these in the conference program should be directed in the first instance to Professor Alistair McCulloch at alistair.mcculloch@unisa.eu.au with a copy to admin@qpr.edu.au .

14^th QUALITY IN POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE (QPR2020) - Australian Wine Centre  Adelaide 21-23 April 2020

Conference Theme: SUCCESS IN DOCTORAL EDUCATION: PERSPECTIVES ON RESEARCH TRAINING

How is success defined in the context of the PhD? Does the definition vary according to the perspective of the actor doing the defining? Whose definition is the most powerful? How should we measure success? Does it matter?

It is now accepted that the field of PhD education involves multiple stakeholders and is known by multiple labels. The stakeholders include research degree candidates, supervisors, those employed to support the development of doctoral education, research leaders, universities, governments, industry together with others. The labels include doctoral education, graduate education, research education and research training.  The different labels imply different understandings of the PhD and its purpose, while the various stakeholders each have (or represent) different and sometimes competing interests. These different labels and interests provide a rich theoretical, conceptual and practitioner backdrop from which to explore the way in which success in doctoral is defined, understood, measured and experienced.

It is in this context that the 14^th Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference (QPR2020) invites contributions addressing the theme of:

Success in doctoral education: perspectives on research training

The Conference Committee invites contributors to think broadly about the ways in which different actors in the doctoral space understand and study the definition, practice and measurement of success in higher degrees by research with possible topics including, but by no means limited to, the following.  

• Determinants of success in research training, graduate outcomes, destinations and career trajectories
• Measuring success in the doctoral degree, stakeholder perspectives
• From Research Education to Research Training - competing definitions of success in the doctoral space
• Power, authority and definitions of success in doctoral education
• Doctoral success in an era of internationalisation and globalisation
• Success in the doctoral space – the contribution of alternative models of the PhD
• Work Integrated Learning, placements and industry-based PhDs
• Improving equitable access to the research degree – how would we measure success?
• Supervisors, supervisory practice and PhD success in a digital age - using digital means to enhance success in research degrees
• What does success mean in research degree examination?

• Doctoral candidates’ experience, wellbeing and success
• Success, risk and the choice of projects and research questions chosen by PhD candidates
• Successful research writing and its development
• Doctoral pedagogies for success - online and in person
• Dissemination and doctoral research - what does success look like?

‘Proposals are invited for expert symposia or roundtable discussions (lasting 90 minutes); full panels involving a number of papers (lasting 90 minutes); individual research, review, integrative, policy or conceptual papers; reports of practice; and, workshops. Individual papers and reports of practice should be designed for presentation during a 25 minute session which includes 8-10 minutes for audience discussion.

Individual research papers and reports of practice should fall into one of the following categories and, to assist their grouping into 90 minute panels, submitters will be asked to indicate under which category their submission should be considered and its likely stage of development at the point of presentation.

• Research papers (papers involving the presentation of empirical data or theoretical developments in the field of doctoral education. Submissions should state whether presenters intend presenting full findings or their early results. Papers addressing the rigorous evaluation of institutional practice may be included in this category.)
• Review, integrative, policy or conceptual papers (not dealing with the presentation of empirical data)
• Practice and innovation papers (dealing with administrative and practice developments, showcases, or experiments and innovations not involving rigorous evaluation)

Please note that each presenter will be limited to a maximum of three appearances on the conference program either as a sole author/presenter or as part of a group authorship/presentation.

Questions and requests for further information can be obtained from admin@qpr.edu.au.

 

Committees

Organizing committee

• Professor Alistair McCulloch
• Associate Professor Michelle Picard
• Ms Lea McBride 

Venue

The conference will be held in Adelaide at the National Wine Centre, Hackney Road Adelaide

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to admin@qpr.edu.au