Revealing future research capacity from an analysis of a national database of discipline-coded Australian PhD thesis records


Autoria(s): Pittayachawan, Siddhi; Macauley, Peter; Evans, Terry
Data(s)

01/01/2016

Resumo

This article reports how statistical analyses of PhD thesis recordscan reveal future research capacities for disciplines beyond theirprimary fields. The previous research showed that most thesescontributed to and/or used methodologies from more than onediscipline. In Australia, there was a concern for declining mathematicalteaching and research capacity. We decided to investigatethe ‘hidden’ mathematics research capacity in PhDs outside ofmathematics. Australian PhD records were re-coded with up tothree fields. Records with mathematics as one of their codes wereselected and analysed for their relationships to disciplines in theirother codes. Triple-coding revealed ‘hidden’ mathematicalresearch capacity that had previously been single-coded inanother field had mathematics as one of their subsequent fields.The findings have implications for policy and planning for mathematicsin Australia, and multiple coding of PhD theses recordsenables analyses for other disciplines to be undertaken to showtheir research capacities.

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30084250

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Taylor & Francis

Relação

http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30084250/evans-revealingfuture-2016.pdf

http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2016.1196936

Direitos

2016, Association for Tertiary Education Management and the LH Martin Institute for Tertiary Education Leadership and Management

Palavras-Chave #Australian PhD data #Discipline-coded thesis records #Future research capacity #Mathematical sciences PhDs #PhD theses
Tipo

Journal Article