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The PhD at the End of the World

Provocations for the Doctorate and a Future Contested

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Editors:
  1. Robyn Barnacle

    1. School of Graduate Research, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Denise Cuthbert

    1. School of Graduate Research, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Brings a refreshing urgency to the question of the purpose of doctoral education
  • Discusses refashioning PhD programs to meet pressing global issues
  • Showcases innovative new models of doctoral education from across the world
  • Brings a range of new voices alongside leading doctoral education scholars

Part of the book series: Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives (DHEP, volume 4)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The PhD at the End of the World: Provocations for the Doctorate and a Future Contested –Introduction

    • Robyn Barnacle, Denise Cuthbert
    Pages 1-7

  3. Is Geo-logy the New Umbrella for All the Sciences? Hints for a Neo-Humboldtian University

    • Bruno Latour
    Pages 9-23

  4. Down to Earth – The PhD Lived-Experience

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. STEM PhD Student Preparation in the Eras of Cross-sector Convergence and Global Climate Crisis: An Autobiographical Exploration

      • Bryan G. Moravec, Matthew M. Mars
      Pages 27-44

    3. Operationalising Research: Embedded PhDs in Transdisciplinary, Action Research Projects

      • Diego Ramirez-Lovering, Michaela F. Prescott, Brendan Josey, Mahsa Mesgar, Daša Spasojevic, Erich Wolff
      Pages 45-64

  7. Theorising an Earthy PhD

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. Expert Not Specialist: Doctoral Ecologies for Focused Frogs and High-Flying Birds

      • Ross Gibson
      Pages 171-179

    3. The PhD Revolution: World-Entangled and Hopeful Futures

      • Søren S. E. Bengtsen
      Pages 181-196

    4. Resituating the PhD: Towards an Ecological Adeptness

      • Ronald Barnett
      Pages 197-210

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 211-212
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About this book

This book addresses a world-wide audience with reference to a global problem: how the PhD can serve the planet.  It examines the role of the PhD, in and of itself, and, as representative of research, the university and evidence-based knowledge, in relation to global crisis and the future of humanity. As such, it speaks to the scholar, the teacher, the policy-maker and the administrator concerned with the role of higher education’s highest award at a time of great global crisis. The approach is critical in that it offers diverse views on these issues and does not seek to privilege one single school of thought. The collected articles span theoretical reflections on key issues through to case-study examples of how PhDs are being deployed and re-thought to address global issues.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Graduate Research, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Robyn Barnacle, Denise Cuthbert

About the editors

Robyn Barnacle is a research education specialist and coordinates professional development programs for higher degrees by research supervisors and candidates. Robyn's research is in the area of higher education and focuses on doctoral education.


Denise Cuthbert is the Dean of the School of Graduate Research at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests are focused in two main areas: adoption, family formation, children and mothers and higher education research with a focus on research education and researcher development.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The PhD at the End of the World

  • Book Subtitle: Provocations for the Doctorate and a Future Contested

  • Editors: Robyn Barnacle, Denise Cuthbert

  • Series Title: Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62219-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62218-3Published: 03 March 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62221-3Published: 04 March 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62219-0Published: 02 March 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2366-2573

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-2581

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 212

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Higher Education, Philosophy of Education, Educational Philosophy, Environmental and Sustainability Education

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