Transcript Dr Jamal Roudaki Faculty of Commerce Lincoln University New Zealand Propose of Doctoral program  Doctoral training is the primary conduit for developing skilled researchers 

Dr Jamal Roudaki
Faculty of Commerce
Lincoln University
New Zealand
Propose of Doctoral program
 Doctoral training is the primary conduit for
developing skilled researchers
 Doctoral students acquiring advanced methodological
and analytical skills necessary to participate in
knowledge development activities.
 Therefore, measurement involve in measuring the
capacity of doctoral graduates to:
 Plan
 Implement research
 Contributes to the profession's knowledge base
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Propose of Doctoral program
 In accounting, doctoral training affords important
opportunities for students to identify and study
meaningful accounting professional topics (education,
standard setting, theories)
 Significant challenges lie ahead in training doctoral
students to be skilled and competitive researchers
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Some Thoughts
How confidence are
your about your:
How you feel
about your
research
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Topic
Literature review
Originality
Research methodology
Data collection
Data analysis
Results
Research contribution
Will you obtain:
• Researchable data
(data collection)
• Suitable research
method
(implementation)
• Sensible, Valuable,
defendable result/s
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Are you sure that
you are in the
right tack
(not a dead end)
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Importance of Exposure
Improving research quality:
• Deep understanding of research topic
• Gain familiarity with the field
Who is who in the field:
To be criticised
Others opinion:
• Second 0pinion
• New Opinion
• Contradictory opinion
Alignment:
• To research stream
• Refining research methodology
Put light on dark or gray area
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Exposure Opportunity
Formal
Informal
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Conference presentation (international or national)
Result Presentation
Doctoral Consortium
Doctoral Symposium
Working paper
• Discussion with colleague
• Internal or departmental seminars
• Discussion group
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Presentation
A great
presentation
results
when:
• Speaker has a solid base of knowledge
• Radiates a love for that subject
• Provide the opportunity to present your work in
the same arena as established professors and
scholars.
• Provides a mechanism for getting valuable
feedback on Work in Progress.
• Create many networking opportunities that help
with research
• These contacts are invaluable when it comes to develop
research
• Provides a sense of being a part of and
contributing to something larger:
• having a big picture
• looking out of the box
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Presentation
Networking
Collaborative research
New idea
Constructive Criticism
• At early stage very helpful
• If fundamental, extremely helpful
• If minor, helpful
• At last stage too costly (research students)
• If fundamental, disaster
• If minor, lead final correction
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PhD Project
 How should you feel about your topic?
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Passionate
Enthusiastic
Motivated
Inspired
Builds upon your existing knowledge
Research Funnel
 You have got to be capable of changing and reinventing, you
have got to be able to innovate, if not it doesn’t work
Is this enough?
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Marketing Your Research Project
Importance of objectives of the research project
Wipe-out uncertainty
Positive beliefs about goal attainment
Seeking feedback:
• Effort in seeking
• Risk in seeking
• Amount of feedback received
What Should You Do?
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Confidence
Develop self-confidence
• Discuss your idea
• Improved your confidence in your work through presentation and
discussion with people outside your university or research group
• Gather feedback
• There is no doubt that feedback can be beneficial
• Refine your research question
• Refine research methodology
But How?
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Feedback
 Feedback is broadly defined as any information that
one person (an expert) gives to another person
(researcher) as a result of presentation or other means
of communication.
 In the context of PhD thesis, feedback is:
 information given to indicate research objective are
attainable and valid
 Feedback can be positive or negative depending on:
 Presentation completeness
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Seek Feedback
 Value of Feedback
 Self-confidence about research project
 Topic is valid
 Research questions are researchable
 Hypotheses are investigating research question/s
 Research method producing sound results
 Data collection contributes to data analysis
 Data analysis contributes to add to the stock of
knowledge
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Seek Feedback
 Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
 http://www.ssrn.com/
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Thesis
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Thank You
Questions
Discussion
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