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This textbook is a practical, user-friendly and essential guide for doctoral students, their supervisors and advisors and administrators of doctoral programs in nursing and health sciences. Nurses and health scientists have a relatively young tradition of doctoral training, and this means students often come to doctoral studies without a clear understanding of what is required to be successful at this level of education. Supporting students to successful completion of doctoral studies involves a complex fusion of skills, and yet researchers and academics receive little specialist training in this crucial area of teaching and learning. Strong pedagogies around doctoral supervision and writing are essential because in addition to the scientific, research and educative skills required, it is important to be able to establish and maintain enabling professional relationships within which both parties can thrive, and that can withstand the years of critique needed for doctoral work. The authors offer supervisors, advisors, students and administrators practical advice on helping students thrive, and steering them through various challenges that can arise during doctoral candidature. With a focus on nursing and health sciences, the authors take a global approach, recognising the international focus of doctoral training in nursing and health sciences. The authors of this book are experienced supervisors and advisors to doctoral students and together, have well over 100 successful doctoral completions and more than 1000 publications. They draw on a series of interviews and case studies to share their knowledge and experience and provide insights and guidance to inspire and support student progression and ensure students get the most out of their doctoral studies.

Successful Doctoral Training in Nursing and Health Sciences: A Guide for Supervisors, Students and Advisors

Chapter 1. What is doctoral training? This chapter will cover the elements and characteristics of a doctoral degree, the roles of supervisor and student, pedagogies of doctoral education, global issues in doctoral education, models of doctoral training, understanding doctoral convention in nursing and health sciences, special considerations for nursing and health sciences.
Chapter 2. Approaches to supervisionThis chapter will cover pedagogies of supervision, individual and group supervision models, supervision within communities of practice, personal supervision style, hands on vs hands off supervision, innovative techniques for supervision, strategies to enhance reflexivity for students and supervisors.  
Chapter 3. Forming and developing the supervision teamThis chapter will cover selecting the supervision panel, identifying complementary skills, getting the skill mix right, understanding responsibilities, getting the best out of the team, developing the team, issues of intellectual property and authorship. 
Chapter 4. Establishing and maintaining student/supervisory relationshipsThis chapter will cover supervisor/student agreements, ensuring shared expectations, effective communication, recognising and dealing with conflict, managing avoidance, recognising and managing splitting behaviours, having difficult conversations, honouring and nurturing the supervisory/student relationship.
Chapter 5. Managing critique and feedbackThis chapter will cover the importance of quality feedback and examine the elements that constitute quality feedback, approaches to feedback, the nature of feedback, supervisor and student factors influencing how feedback is delivered and received, and how to ensure feedback is optimally enabling not disabling.
Chapter 6. When students get stuckThis chapter will cover issues around failure to progress, a very common challenge and provide tips to help supervisors and students to recognise camouflaging of failure to progress, and how to enable and support students to re-engage and move forward.
Chapter 7. Training, focus on issues for Indigenous students, international students, and some of the global issues influencing doctoral training
Chapter 8. Developing doctoral writingIn this chapter, we will address pedagogies of doctoral writing, tackle the complexities of doctoral writing, present and identify strategies to support students to develop as writers, cover writing for publication, and submitting parts of the thesis as papers.
Chapter 9. Preparing for examinationIn this chapter, we will cover selecting examiners, crafting traditional theses, hybrid models, collections of publications, thesis mapping. We will discuss preparing for oral examination as well as the examination of the written document. 
Chapter 10. Life after the examination,This chapter includes the management of the consequences of the Viva and what to expect from life in the post-doctoral stage.