Doctoring the Portfolio: Some problematics and possibilities

Abstract

The Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Graduate Studies (CDDGS, 1998, 1) document responded to the need nationally for a definition of "Professional Doctorate" and provided the following: a program of research, scholarship and advanced study which enables candidates to make a 'significant contribution to knowledge and practice in their professional context.' In doing so, a candidate may also contribute more generally to scholarship within the discipline or field study. Professional doctorate students should be required to apply their research and study to problems, issues or other matters of substance which produce 'significant benefits in professional practice' [italics, our emphasis].