Doctoral Dissertation Research Research Articles

Generative AI: Is Authentic Qualitative Research Data Collection Possible?

With the advent of readily accessible generative artificial intelligence (GAI), a concern exists within the academic community that research data collected in the context of conducting doctoral dissertation research is authentic. The purpose of the present study was to explore the role of GAI in the production of new research paying particular attention to the use of GAI in collecting new data for a doctoral dissertation. This study employed qualitative methodology examining how GAI, specifically ChatGPT, responded to interview questions from a previously published article by the researchers to determine how closely chatbots mimic responses from the actual study participants. The researchers found that data integrity in qualitative research may be at risk if higher education institutions do not set clear policies and specific parameters for how doctoral research data is obtained and validated in light of GAI.

Fulbright‐Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program (ED)

Fulbright‐Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program (ED)

STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE OF PAVLODAR IRTYSH REGION

This article discusses the general characteristics and main periods of development of Russian literature of the Pavlodar Irtysh region as an essential part of Kazakhstani literary process. As a continuation of a series of articles on the regional literature of the region as an object of the author’s doctoral dissertation research, this study summarizes currently available information on this topic and presents the author’s concept of periodization of the Russian literature of the region according to the socio-political, cultural, ideological processes in regional, Kazakhstani and world space. The study allows to identify the distinction of the literary process of the Pavlodar Irtysh region in its retro- and perspective based on systematization of literary facts of more than a century of history, and as a result, to qualify the place of this literature in the Kazakhstani and world literary continuum. At the initial stage of its origin, regional literature was associated with writers, who later became remarkable figures of Soviet Russian literature, but protected a metaphysical, spiritual connection with Pavlodar and Kazakhstan as a whole. At the second stage of its development, the Pavlodar Russian-speaking literature was in compliance with the development of Soviet Russian literature. The third period of development is characterized by feelings of uncertainty, anxiety for the future of the country and people, for the retaining of the moral and spiritual foundations of a society. At the present stage, Internet resources are becoming a favorite form of communication between word-painters and readers, suggesting various forms of self-presentation of authors, the possibility of feedback and commenting; the women’s poetry is developing.

History from the Dustbins

In this essay, I reflect on the growing political obstacles to doing business history in China and how, in my doctoral dissertation research, I attempted to overcome them. More specifically, I discuss how I drew on unconventional historical sources and novel data to examine the relationship between informal entrepreneurial activity and economic change in Maoist China (1949–1978). Through the quantitative analysis of thousands of case files of individuals prosecuted as “speculators and profiteers”—discarded administrative documents that were recovered from Chinese flea markets—I reassessed the scale and scope of informal entrepreneurial activity in Maoist China. I then went on to triangulate these data with evidence found in other sources to illustrate how, over time, informal entrepreneurial activity became more collusive, encompassing, and impossible to contain. Ultimately, I argued that China’s “Reform and Opening Up” was not the state-led watershed event that it is often made out to be; rather, economic and institutional change was, at least partly, the result of a bottom-up transformation, decades in the making. This essay thus suggests that the use of unconventional sources and mixed methods presents opportunities both for doing research in contexts where history is being actively securitized and for producing countervailing narratives that decenter the state.

An Overview of Miami CDEIPI and a Showcase of Team Science and Cutting-Edge Research Driven by Students.

The Miami-CFAR Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Pathway Initiative (Miami CDEIPI) is designed to promote a diverse scientific workforce that reflects the communities at the highest risk of HIV in South Florida. The focus of the Miami CDEIPI is to help train the next generation of Underrepresented Minorities (URM) and Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) in HIV/AIDS-related research through a team science experience. The Miami CDEIPI objectives are to facilitate the interaction of URM/BIPOC students with the network of CFAR-affiliated investigators and to enable these students to access the cutting-edge technologies at the Miami-CFAR and the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and other resources at the University of Miami. Five URM/BIPOC students supported by the program in year 1 have been carrying out projects in collaboration with mentors at their parent institution and Miami-CFAR investigators. The students used the state-of-the-art laboratories and core facilities. They began their research with a proposal designed to integrate the cutting-edge technologies now available to them. Their training included participation in Miami-CFAR-sponsored activities such as seminars, an annual conference, and a national HIV workshop. Candidates in the Miami CDEIPI are in the process of developing their research proposals, integrating cutting-edge technologies into their doctoral dissertation research. Their projects are now in the completion phase. The Miami CDEIPI focuses its resources on one of the conspicuous gaps in the career paths of URM/BIPOC researchers-the dearth of leading URM/BIPOC scientists in the field. The Miami CDEIPI provides a professional network that supports the participation of URM/BIPOC trainees in innovative research and career skill training.

Conference Session Review: ITEXPO/ IoT Evolution: Medical Internet of Things (MIoT) – Opportunities for Managed Solutions Providers (MSPs)

The ITExpo conference was held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in February 2023. The IoT Evolution program is part of the overall ITExpo conference and focuses on emerging trends and opportunities within the Internet of Things (IoT) environment. IoT Evolution offers expert sessions on practical applications and use cases of IoT. These include automation, security, and healthcare (https://www.iotevolutionexpo.com/east/). One of the 2023 conference sessions was entitled “Medical Internet of Things (MIoT) – Opportunities for Managed Solutions Providers (MSPs). This article is from the presenter’s perspective and addresses the topics covered in the doctoral dissertation research completed in 2022. The focus of the session was to provide information to organizations that offer managed solutions services to clients or customers, including healthcare. One of the observations derived from the doctoral research was a lack of awareness within the healthcare community regarding the security and privacy issues associated with remote implantable or wearable medical devices. Doctors presumed that these issues were addressed by the device manufacturers, HIPAA, the FDA, or others. Research indicated that this was not correct and that there was a gap in this area. This gap represented an opportunity for organizations like MSPs that provide consulting and advisory services to healthcare organizations regarding overall security and privacy. The article elaborates on the composition of the attendees, questions that arose during the session, and summarizes the information that was provided. The linkage between academic research and practical field application were key elements of this session.

Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (NSF)

Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (NSF)

The Major Characteristics and Trends of Gifted Education Doctoral Dissertation Research From 2006 Through 2016

This study features a content analysis of gifted education doctoral dissertation studies from 2006 through 2016 ( n = 683) to identify the characteristics and shifts of the field. The major topics of the studies were categorized into the National Association for Gifted Children’s 16 networks and compared with the future directions suggested by the State of the States in Gifted Education report to locate the gaps between research and practical needs. The findings of this study not only outline gifted education’s significant features and trends but also provide an understanding of the evolving nature and insights of the field such as research methods, data sources, study participants, and journal publication rates.

Africa in World History

My first academic job in 1962 involved teaching a course on History of Civilization. We had a text that essentially involved Western Civilization with chapters on India, China, and Japan interspersed. Two years later, when I returned from my doctoral thesis research in Africa, my thesis supervisor, William Halperin, recommended me for a ten-week adult education group discussing William McNeill’s Rise of the West. I was stunned that in a history of Eurasia, McNeill devoted only five pages to Africa. The incorporation of Africa in world history has been slow. For many of us in that first generation to study African history in Europe and North America, the marginality of Africa in the study of history was sometimes what drew us to study it. (There were a small number of African-American historians who wrote about Africa, but they had little impact on history curricula outside the small world in which they operated.) As a graduate student, I did a field on the Expansion of Europe and was struck by the inferior quality of much that had been written about Africa, largely by missionaries and colonial administrators. Until the Foreign Area Fellowship Program sent me to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to “tool up” with Jan Vansina, I was oblivious to the work that scholars like Vansina, Oliver, and Curtin were doing. Once I began researching Africa, the excitement was that of creating a new field of historical research.

Relevant Factors Influencing Cognitive Distance in the Performance of Collaborative Research Projects

The research scope of this paper is to reinforce the need to strengthen university-firm relationship. We consider that it is crucial that the interactions between researcher/university and managers/firms should be based on a win-win relationship. In this sense, it is relevant to determine the main drivers behind the success of collaborative research projects, and this study focuses on one of them: cognitive distance. The specific objective of this study is to analyze the main factors that determine the influence of cognitive distance in the individual relationship between researchers and practitioners in collaborative research projects. In the first stage, through a literature review of cognitive distance and collaborative research projects, we identified a list of seven factors that influence cognitive distance and the issues that may provoke in the empirical context. Second, we carried out an empirical study based on semi-structured interviews with coordinators of collaborative research projects managed by the “Chair of Business Volkswagen Navarra – University of Navarra”. This permitted us to build guidelines that show the main practical concerns associated with each factor and how they were managed in the analyzed projects. This enriches the cognitive distance literature on individual interactions between researchers and practitioners. We highlight the relevance of previous experience of both agents, the exploitation of projects versus exploratory ones, and the determinant role of support infrastructures to minimize the negative effect of high cognitive distance. Nowadays, there is a trend to develop collaborative research projects with firms, not only agreement collaborations. Therefore, our findings could be useful for analyzing the relationships between researchers and practitioners in action research studies developed inside a doctoral thesis or competitive research project. By considering the effect of cognitive distance when selecting collaborative research projects, it will help to increase the degree of success of these projects.

Critical Race Composite Counter Storytelling as Appropriate Methodology to “Wrestle the White Beast”

Being a Brown woman in academia remains a minority experience. Racialized students within the ivory tower consistently experience microaggressions and violence through institutionally biased university curricula, programs, and policies. Using personal storytelling and narrative to describe my experience of navigating academic dynamics in a public institution in Canada, this article seeks to demystify and dismantle the challenges of navigating graduate school as a woman of colour, specifically in relation to finding an appropriate methodology for my doctoral dissertation research. In this article I will unpack my use of critical race theory’s composite counter storytelling methodology. I look at my process for creating Beti, a composite counterstory of the ten racialized and Indigenous activists I interviewed, and some of the challenges and limitations I encountered in this process. This methodology seeks to improve access and inclusion for racialized students researching their own communities within academic institutions and beyond.

3D crowdsourced parametric cadastral mapping: Pathways integrating BIM/IFC, crowdsourced data and LADM

This paper is part of a doctoral dissertation (PhD) research aligned with global trends aiming to develop practical technical tools for the collection, management and visualization of three-dimensional (3D) property rights in urban areas. Recently, the Building Information Models (BIMs) claim a prominent position in the field of 3D cadastres and the digital twins of the cities. In addition to all other building information, the BIM can also provide data about the exact boundaries of all kind of legal spaces (e.g., property ownership rights as well as land use restrictions), under the support of Industry Foundation Classes (IFCs). However, the utilization of BIMs for 3D cadastral surveys is still accompanied with two main drawbacks. The first refers to BIMs limited availability, as till now they mainly encounter in new large constructions. The second refers to the complexity in defining the exact geometric location of the legal boundaries regarding the exterior/interior partitions of the construction and of the common spaces. The latter parameter is formed on the basis of the current legal legislation in each country. Through in-depth investigation of the current legal framework of each country it may be possible to visualize the various 3D legal spaces within complex constructions and thus to facilitate the integration of existing BIMs in the development of 3D cadasters that will enable a better understanding and communication of all involved parties in the operation of cross-boundary real estate markets. In parallel, crowdsourcing has already been proved to be a powerful data collection method for the initial participatory implementation of fast, reliable and affordable 3D cadastral surveys, utilizing all capabilities provided by the latest low-cost devices, mobile services (m-services), open-source software (OSS) and the international standard of Land Administration Domain Model (LADM ISO 19152). If no precise 3D building models are already available, the currently available 2D architectural plans combined with the additional geometric and descriptive cadastral information may be utilized for a participatory crowdsourced cadastral survey of the 3D property units. In this paper a ‘two-route’ crowdsourced approach is described. This approach suggests both the use of existing BIMs – those available – to proceed with 3D crowdsourced cadastral surveys of those constructions, as well as the use of 2D georeferenced basemaps (e.g., orthophotos for the compilation of 2D crowdsourced cadastral surveys, and all existing architectural floor plans of the constructions) to proceed with 3D crowdsourced cadastral surveys of all other constructions. A database schema describing the linkage between LADM standard, BIM/IFC and 3D crowdsourced geometric and descriptive cadastral information is developed and presented. A hybrid mobile application enabling the manipulation of BIM/IFC descriptive data – if existing; the collection of 3D crowdsourced geometric and descriptive information by property owners/users/non-professionals; the registration of the cadastral data and their relationships within a LADM-based cadastral geodatabase; the automated generation of 3D property unit models as block models (LoD1), using Model-driven approach; and the objects visualization in real-time, are developed. An investigation regarding the legally correct representation of the location of property unit boundaries, focusing mainly in the Greek territory is conducted. A practical experiment for each one of the cases of the ‘two-route’ crowdsourced approach is implemented, for two multi-storey buildings in the city of Athens, Greece. The potentials of the proposed crowdsourced solution as well as the achieved geometric accuracy – in the absence of BIM – are discussed and assessed. The results show that integrating BIM data with cadastral information derived from crowdsourcing, may significantly contribute to the implementation of 3D Cadastres, providing also a better visual understanding of 3D property rights. Nonetheless, even in the absence of a BIM the achieved accuracy seems to satisfy the cadastral specifications of the Greek cadaster enhancing the potential of exploiting crowdsourced data in the initial phases of the cadastral formal procedures.

Review: This Must Be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975, by Aimé Iglesias Lukin

Book Review| April 01 2023 Review: This Must Be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975, by Aimé Iglesias Lukin This Must Be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975, by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, edited by Tie Jojima and Karen Marta. New York: Americas Society and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, 2022. 431 pages. Paperback $35.00. Niko Vicario Niko Vicario Amherst College Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2023) 5 (2): 153–154. https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2023.5.2.153 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Niko Vicario; Review: This Must Be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975, by Aimé Iglesias Lukin. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 1 April 2023; 5 (2): 153–154. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2023.5.2.153 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentLatin American and Latinx Visual Culture Search This book, published at the tail end of the two-part exhibition of the same name, expands on the doctoral dissertation research of Aimé Iglesias Lukin, the director and chief curator of the Americas Society. Both the exhibition and the book make valuable contributions to the study of art made in and in relation to New York City, to the history of art made by artists from Latin America, and to the body of scholarship tracing the transnational networks artists from the region circulated through during the late sixties and early seventies. As Uruguayan artist César Paternosto says, with ambiguous affective and political inflection, “It was in New York that I discovered that I was Latin American” (245). The idea that a Latin American identity and culture could be distilled among immigrants in a place outside the geographical boundaries of Latin America proper (13) resonates with studies by Michele Greet and... You do not currently have access to this content.

History Issues of Japan in Politics and Education

Many scholars have researched Japan’s historical issues, connected to politics and education. Nevertheless, they mostly studied one issue from one perspective, such as international law or human rights. As a part of ongoing doctoral thesis research, this paper aims to discern if and how the historical issues and the Japanese government’s stance on those issues changed between 1982 and 2022 and interacted with each other. By comparing official statements with textbook contents on historical issues, the connection between them can bring a fuller understanding of Japan’s historical policy as a system. This paper hypothesises that history politics indirectly influences education policies and textbook writing. At this stage of research, it can be concluded that there are numerous historical issues recognised as such by Japan, but recognition has been an effect of other actors’ claims. Various actors have made those claims at opportune times, using history as a tool. Nonetheless, policy and statements by politicians and overall discernible history politics, such as counterclaims on particular issues, seem to have at least some correlation with the contents of textbooks. Further research into those connections may better understand Japan’s history politics as a system and how they influence history education.

Higher Library Education in the Countries of Latin America

The purpose of the article is look into historical features and to determine the formation stages and the current state of the library specialists’ education system and its level in Latin American countries.
 The methodology. There were used historical-genetic and systemic-structural approaches. It made it possible to establish the main stages periodization of the higher education levels in Library Studies’ origin and development in the leading countries of Latin America. The study proved the influence of North American and European traditions on the development of the training of highly qualified library personnel system in the founding countries of graduate library education on the continent. A comparative and content analysis of the bachelor’s, master’s and Doctoral Degrees’ educational programs in the specialty “Library and Information Sciences” provided by leading universities in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, made it possible to determine the general and specific aspects of the specialists training for the information industry, to establish the peculiarities of cognitive and institutional components of bachelor’s and master’s educational programs, justify the objective necessity of strengthening their interdisciplinarity and flexibility.
 The results. It has been established that Argentina was the first among Latin American countries to establish a training school for librarians in the structure of the Philosophy and Literature Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires back in 1922. In the 1940s and 1950s, universities opened Library Studies (Schools) in Panama (1941), Brazil (1942), Peru (1943), Uruguay (1943), Mexico (1945, 1956), Chile (1949), Costa Rica (1950) and Colombia (1956). The system of post-graduate library education began to take shape in the 1970s, when in 1972 the first post-graduate program in the field of “Library and Information Science” was opened in Brazil at the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo, and in 1980 — the doctoral program as well. Currently, in the countries of Latin America, only the leading metropolitan universities have educational programs of master’s and Doctoral levels. It is due to the low scientific qualification of graduate departments and the insufficient number of professors who can carry out qualified supervision of master’s and Doctoral thesis research.
 The current state of the library and information education system development on the Latin American continent is demonstrated by the following statistics: Brazil has 47 universities with their structure including schools or departments for the library specialists training, Argentina has 16 of such universities, Mexico — 13, Colombia — 6, Chile — 4, Cuba — 3, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Peru, Venezuela — 2 universities each, Bolivia, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, Jamaica — 1 university each.
 The scientific topicality. The formation of the higher library education levels system on the Latin American continent took place in several stages: the genesis stage (1920–1930s), the stage of active development (1940–1960s), the stage of starting post-graduate training of library specialists at the postgraduate level, and later — master’s and Doctoral studies (1970–1990s); the stage of strengthening the interdisciplinary integration of educational program profiles (2000 — present). The results of the educational programs (EPs) content analysis of various levels of training in the specialty “Library and Information Sciences” made it possible to establish a certain conservatism of their profiling, to determine that the promising directions for their modernization are interdisciplinary and strengthening of the digital and information and communication components with, for example, such relevant EPs as “Communication, organization, management of information and knowledge”, “Sociocultural, political and economic configurations of information”.
 The practical significance. The research results can be used by Ukrainian institutions of higher education in the process of improving master’s and Doctoral educational programs in the specialty 029 “Information, Library and Archival Affairs”. The introduction of the best foreign training practices of library specialists will improve their quality and competitiveness at the global information market.

Family-integrated diabetes education for individuals with diabetes in South-west Nigeria.

This study aimed to determine the effects of family-integrated diabetes education on diabetes knowthe ledge of patients and family members, as well as its impact on patients' glycosylated haemoglobin (A1C). The design was a two-group Pretest Posttest quasi-experimental. The study took place at the diabetes clinics of two tertiary hospitals in southwestern Nigeria. People Living with Diabetes (PLWD) and family members aged 18 years and over and without cognitive impairment were placed, as clusters, into either a control group (CG) or an intervention group (IG) The CG comprised 88 patients and 88 family members while IG comprised 82 patients and 82 family members. Of these, 78 and 74 patients completed the study in CG and IG, respectively. PLWD in IG along with their family members were given an educational intervention on diabetes management and collaborative support with an information booklet provided. This was followed by three (3) complimentary Short Messaging Service (SMS). A1C and diabetes knowledge. Over half (52.4%) and about a fifth (18.2%) of family members and patients, respectively, had never had diabetes education. There was a statistically significant increase in the knowledge of patients and family members in IG. Unlike CG, the A1C of patients in IG improved significantly at three and six-month post-intervention, (p<0.01). Regression showed an independent effect of family members' knowledge on IG's A1C. Improved family members' diabetes knowledge positively impacted patients' glucose level. There is a need to integrate family members into diabetes care better. African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship (ADDRF) award offered by the Africa Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) in partnership with the International Development Research Centre.

Doctoral Dissertation Research in Rehabilitation Counseling: 2013

Our team recently examined the 2012 doctoral dissertation research in our field. This article continues a series of annual reviews of rehabilitation doctoral dissertation research. In 2013, there were a total of 22 doctoral dissertations completed from identified doctoral programs in rehabilitation counseling. Dissertations were organized by research topic, methodology used, model, and statistical analysis, and an annotated bibliography was provided. The analysis also included institutional productivity and trends in employment outcomes for doctoral graduates. Findings of the current analysis demonstrated that majority of the studies consisted of quantitative descriptive research designs. Compared to analyses from previous years, in 2013 advanced statistics were used at the highest rate since 2005. The proportion of dissertations focusing on professional issues topics was greater than any of the prior reporting periods. Implications for the practice of rehabilitation counseling, education, and future research are discussed.

Safeguarding and Agency: Methodological Tensions in Conducting Research with Survivors of Sexual Violence in Universities

This paper examines the tension between safeguarding measures and participant agency in conducting feminist interviews with survivors of sexual violence in universities. There is a core contradiction inherent in feminist research of gender-related violence, including sexual violence, because participants have been traumatized: Research with survivors of violence must enact appropriate safeguarding measures to ensure their emotional wellbeing, yet in designing these safeguarding measures, researchers must also ensure that survivor participants can exert agency within the research process. These phenomena are often at odds as safeguarding—the work of protecting participants through limiting their exposure to upsetting stimuli—appears to circumscribe participant agency, or a participant’s ability to make informed choices for themselves that respond to and change the structures in which they are situated. Using part of my doctoral thesis research’s methodology, I detail the safeguarding measures I implemented for participants as well as highlight how and where I attempted to build in agential engagement for survivor participants, and whether, or how often, survivors took up these options. The article concludes by suggesting ways gender-related violence research more broadly can reflect on and continue to interrogate how researchers balance safeguarding requirements while enabling survivors to assert their agency in the research process.

Актуальные темы исследований в сопоставительной филологии в совре- менном Казахстане

The topicality and importance of the problems associated with comparative linguistics constantly draws the attention of linguists to the issues of studying the lexicon and concepts of foreign language origin. This article deals with current topics of doctoral dissertation research in modern Kazakhstan. The impact of this article is determined by the possibility of using the information contained in it for further research on the issues of linguistic convergence, the study of integration and adaptation of foreign words, identifying conceptual fields of “richness” and “poverty” concepts, as well as the study of sacral concepts in comparative linguistics.

Fulbright‐Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (ED)

Federal Grants & ContractsVolume 46, Issue 6 p. 1-2 Grants alerts Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (ED) First published: 12 February 2022 https://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.32210Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume46, Issue617 February 2022Pages 1-2 RelatedInformation