The new 2.5 year PhD process is new well estabished. The focus is a structured learning process for sucessfully achieving all the benefits and research quality of a long thesis PhD in a way that's more supportive and fun to do.
The intention is to consistently result in top quality PhD research training and successful thesis outcomes in a sensible time span - 3 years or less. Process (and PhD) is focused on the expected needs of design professionals.
Currently the process is showing benefits for:
- International students disadvantaged by language and culture
- English first-language students who are weak in writing academic skills
- Professionals and undergraduates with Art and Design backgrounds commonly disadvantaged in the formal skills of reasoning, evidence selection and classic logical argumentation.
This new PhD education process is based on worldwide review and testing of best practice in supervision, thesis-writing and research training.
There is a book almost completed describing the process.
