This book analyses the structural and institutional transformations
undergone by doctoral education, and the extent to which these
transformations are in line with social, political and doctoral
candidates' expectations. Higher education has gone through profound
changes driven by the massification and diversification of the student
body, the rise of neoliberal policies coupled with the reduction in
public funding and the emergence of the knowledge society and economy.
As a result, higher education has been assigned new and more
outward-looking missions, which have subsequently affected doctoral
education. The editors and contributors examine these transformations
and changes at the macro, meso and micro levels: wider and more
structural changes as well as doctoral candidates' experience of the
degree itself. This book will be of interest and value to scholars of
doctoral education and the transformation of the university more
widely.