Research development in doctoral education: role of languages and cultures

[EN] Portuguese universities have been receiving an increasing number of students from Portuguese-Speaking Countries at the level of PhD studies, namely from Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde and Mozambique. As acknowledged by research, undertaking a PhD overseas entails several challenges and one of the d...

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Autor: Pinto, Susana
Formato: capítulo de livro
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
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Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Higher Education
Learning
Educational systems
Teaching
Portuguese higher education
Doctoral research development
International doctoral students
Languages and cultures
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spelling Research development in doctoral education: role of languages and culturesPinto, SusanaHigher EducationLearningEducational systemsTeachingPortuguese higher educationDoctoral research developmentInternational doctoral studentsLanguages and cultures[EN] Portuguese universities have been receiving an increasing number of students from Portuguese-Speaking Countries at the level of PhD studies, namely from Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde and Mozambique. As acknowledged by research, undertaking a PhD overseas entails several challenges and one of the deepest concerns the implications of languages and cultures in several doctoral activities, since they act as significant research reconfiguration agents. Against this background, this paper reports on a study that aimed at understanding the role of languages and cultures in doctoral research development. For this matter, and within a qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with doctoral students from Portuguese-Speaking Countries attending a Portuguese university. Results from thematic analysis reveal that students’ linguistic and cultural backgrounds influence several stages of the research process: theme and research objetives definition, theorisation of the research problem and concept mobilisation, construction of data collection instruments and data collection and thesis writing. Implications of findings for institutional policy and practice concerning doctoral education and research are put forward.This work is financially supported by: National funds through the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, IP under the project UIDB/00194/2020 and in the scope of the framework contract foreseen in the numbers 4, 5 and 6 of the article 23, of the Decree-Law 57/2016, of August 29, changed by Law 57/2017, of July 19.Editorial Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, PortugalRepositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet20212021-07-26book parthttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartapplication/pdfhttps://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/172085reponame:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valénciainstname:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)InglésengFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001871 UIDB%2F00194%2F2020open accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Reconocimiento - No comercial - Sin obra derivada (by-nc-nd) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:riunet.upv.es:10251/1720852026-06-13T07:49:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Research development in doctoral education: role of languages and cultures
title Research development in doctoral education: role of languages and cultures
spellingShingle Research development in doctoral education: role of languages and cultures
Pinto, Susana
Higher Education
Learning
Educational systems
Teaching
Portuguese higher education
Doctoral research development
International doctoral students
Languages and cultures
title_short Research development in doctoral education: role of languages and cultures
title_full Research development in doctoral education: role of languages and cultures
title_fullStr Research development in doctoral education: role of languages and cultures
title_full_unstemmed Research development in doctoral education: role of languages and cultures
title_sort Research development in doctoral education: role of languages and cultures
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Pinto, Susana
author Pinto, Susana
author_facet Pinto, Susana
author_role author
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Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Higher Education
Learning
Educational systems
Teaching
Portuguese higher education
Doctoral research development
International doctoral students
Languages and cultures
topic Higher Education
Learning
Educational systems
Teaching
Portuguese higher education
Doctoral research development
International doctoral students
Languages and cultures
description [EN] Portuguese universities have been receiving an increasing number of students from Portuguese-Speaking Countries at the level of PhD studies, namely from Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde and Mozambique. As acknowledged by research, undertaking a PhD overseas entails several challenges and one of the deepest concerns the implications of languages and cultures in several doctoral activities, since they act as significant research reconfiguration agents. Against this background, this paper reports on a study that aimed at understanding the role of languages and cultures in doctoral research development. For this matter, and within a qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with doctoral students from Portuguese-Speaking Countries attending a Portuguese university. Results from thematic analysis reveal that students’ linguistic and cultural backgrounds influence several stages of the research process: theme and research objetives definition, theorisation of the research problem and concept mobilisation, construction of data collection instruments and data collection and thesis writing. Implications of findings for institutional policy and practice concerning doctoral education and research are put forward.
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