BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.10//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:137@rida.shu.ac.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250409T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250409T170000 DTSTAMP:20250404T112401Z URL:https://rida.shu.ac.uk/events/research-seminar-knowledge-brokering-in- professionally-integrated-phds/ SUMMARY:Research seminar: Knowledge brokering in professionally integrated PhDs DESCRIPTION:Knowledge brokering in professionally integrated PhDs: Students ’ perspectives on opportunities\, challenges\, and support.\n\nMaria Cer vin-Ellqvist\, Chalmers University of Technology\, Sweden\n\nThere is curr ently a push for doctoral education and research to be more relevant and a pplicable to the wider society. Universities need to increase collaboratio n with non-academic organisations\, and doctoral education must prepare st udents for careers both in and outside of academia\, or in collaboration b etween the two. Consequently\, professionally integrated doctorates are on the rise\, including the industrial PhD (IndPhD) where a doctoral project resulting in a PhD is conducted in collaboration between an employing org anisation and a university. Such doctorates provide both opportunities and challenges\, which require further investigation. In this project\, we ex amine the opportunities and challenges of IndPhDs from a student perspecti ve\, focusing on students’ roles as brokers of knowledge across industry and academia. How can this role be supported and students’ skills devel opment promoted? Based on survey data from 152 IndPhD students and 12 inte rviews with individual students\, we found that IndPhD students face multi ple challenges in brokering research knowledge across contexts\, receive l ittle support to learn skills specifically needed in brokering\, and often struggle to navigate contexts and find their role—especially in industr y. While expressing frustration about lacking support in and across academ ia and industry\, our participants also recognised that they constitute an important brokering function across two communities of practice\, where t hey can provide industry with relevant research and academia with an under standing of current industrial problems. Moreover\, a majority of the stud ents interviewed appreciated and wished to maintain their brokering role. This finding speaks to the potential of professionally integrated doctorat es to promote increased collaboration and knowledge transfer even after th e completion of the PhD project. In this presentation\, we further unpack our findings and discuss implications for policy and practice\, focusing o n training and structural support needed for professionally integrated doc toral students\, such as IndPhD students.\n\nMaria Cervin-Ellqvist is a Ph D student at the Department for Communication and Learning in Science at C halmers University of Technology in Gothenburg\, Sweden\, supervised by Pr ofessor Raffaella Negretti and Dr Lisa McGrath. Originally from a STEM (sc ience\, technology\, engineering\, and mathematics) background\, she holds degrees in both bioengineering and teaching. In her interdisciplinary res earch\, she explores communication\, learning processes\, and learner expe riences in higher education\, currently with a focus on industrial PhDs in STEM. In all her research\, the implications for practice as well as poli cy are central. Her research has appeared in Higher Education and Journ al of Writing Research. CATEGORIES:Sheffield Institute of Education LOCATION:Charles Street 12.2.05\, 12.2.05 Charles Street Building\, Sheffie ld\, UK\, S1\, United Kingdom X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=12.2.05 Charles Street Buil ding\, Sheffield\, UK\, S1\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Cha rles Street 12.2.05:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR