Responding to the Indeterminacy of Doctoral Research in Design

The Future of Design Education working group on doctoral education included doctoral supervisors from nine programs around the world and addressed the indeterminacy of standards for the PhD in Design. Internationally, “contributions to knowledge” under the PhD degree title range from evidence-based investigations documented in a dissertation...

PhD in Design: a Map and Glossary

This Map and Glossary is one of the results of DoCS4Design, an Erasmus+ project that originated in the idea to exchange experiences regarding the guidance of PhD candidates in the design field. Since 2018, academics from the six participating design schools regularly shared and discussed their approaches and results. In 2020, DoCS4Design started...

Guiding the PhD in design: Experiences from six programs

In the DoCS4Design project, six established PhD programmes in design pooled and compared the diversity in their practices in guiding PhDs (e.g., 3- or 4-year programmes, small or large amounts of formal education, small or large numbers of staff and students). Panelists from the six programmes discussed these differences to- gether with 60...