Doctoral Graduates’ Experiences of PhD Engagement and Outcomes

Understanding how graduates view their PhD engagement and outcomes is essential for supporting doctoral students employability. Investigating PhD graduates at early, mid, and late-career stages and diverse careers, revealed complex influences, motivations, experiences, environments, and occupational...

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Main Author: Kearns, Sarah Louise
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2025
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97402
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description Understanding how graduates view their PhD engagement and outcomes is essential for supporting doctoral students employability. Investigating PhD graduates at early, mid, and late-career stages and diverse careers, revealed complex influences, motivations, experiences, environments, and occupational fit. Satisfactory outcomes highlighted recognition of the PhD qualification and skills, dissatisfactory outcomes highlighted undervalue and barriers. Supporting doctoral employability must recognise career-stage diversity and diverse careers and, enable students to engage in career development at all doctoral stages.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-974022025-03-27T05:17:57Z Doctoral Graduates’ Experiences of PhD Engagement and Outcomes Kearns, Sarah Louise Understanding how graduates view their PhD engagement and outcomes is essential for supporting doctoral students employability. Investigating PhD graduates at early, mid, and late-career stages and diverse careers, revealed complex influences, motivations, experiences, environments, and occupational fit. Satisfactory outcomes highlighted recognition of the PhD qualification and skills, dissatisfactory outcomes highlighted undervalue and barriers. Supporting doctoral employability must recognise career-stage diversity and diverse careers and, enable students to engage in career development at all doctoral stages. 2025 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97402 Curtin University fulltext
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title_short Doctoral Graduates’ Experiences of PhD Engagement and Outcomes
title_sort doctoral graduates’ experiences of phd engagement and outcomes
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97402