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Doctorate: Finding your Way as a Healthcare Professional in Research

  • 1st Edition - October 15, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Janet Deane
  • Language: English

Are you thinking about embarking on postgraduate qualifications? Are you unsure how to juggle the challenges of a doctorate alongside your clinical workload and personal… Read more

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Description

Are you thinking about embarking on postgraduate qualifications? Are you unsure how to juggle the challenges of a doctorate alongside your clinical workload and personal responsibilities? Then this new book from academic and health professional Dr Janet Deane is for you.

Written from personal experience, Doctorate: Finding your Way as a Healthcare Professional in Research will help you navigate the entire process of your PhD journey, from choosing your research topic to undertaking the course and assessment, obtaining funding, managing your time, and optimising your health and wellbeing. The book is packed full of tips and advice from other health professionals who have successfully completed their doctorates.

This book will be especially useful for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals who are considering doctoral research with a view to becoming future research leaders in their field.

Key features

  • The only title on the market written from the perspective of healthcare professionals rather than those already embedded in academia – provides real-life insights and advice
  • Written in a personal, conversational style – easy to read for busy healthcare professionals
  • Encourages self-reflection – how your values and background can inform your future research career
  • Tips for grant and fellowship applications, and how to persist beyond failure
  • Advice on time management, supervision and mentorship, work-life balance and how to meet your goals
  • Support for maintaining your physical and mental health from those who have been through it too
  • Interviews with a diverse range of UK nurses, midwives and allied health professionals who are either currently on or have successfully navigated the journey

Readership

Healthcare professionals, including post registration nurses, midwives and allied health professionals

Table of contents

SECTION 1 Finding Your Way in Doctoral Research

1. A Personal Journey

2. The Doctoral Process

3. Funding Your Way

4. Project Management

5. Supervision and Mentorship

6. Personal Development and Career Planning

7. Health and Well-Being

8. The Doctoral Parent and Caregiver

9. Academic Writing

10. Thesis Writing

11. Viva Voce

12. Celebrating Success

13. Paying It Forward

SECTION 2 Interviews With Experienced Healthcare Professionals Involved in Research

14. Overview of Interviews With Experienced Healthcare Professionals in Research

15. Undertaking a Professional Doctorate

16. Applying for Doctoral Funding and Learning From Experience

17. The Reality of Doctoral Project Management

18. Reflections From an Experienced Doctoral Supervisor and Mentor

19. Doctoral Development and Career Planning

20. Health and Well-Being From the Perspective of a Doctoral Student

21. Experience of Being a Doctoral Parent

22. Writing Your Way

23. Writing a Doctoral Thesis From the Perspective of an Experienced Examiner

24. The Viva Voce Is Your Time to Shine

25. Celebrate Your Impact and Success

26. Share Your Privilege

SECTION 3 Conclusions

SECTION 4 Resources

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 30, 2024
  • Language: English

About the author

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Janet Deane

Associate Professor Janet Deane works in the Rehabilitation Science and Physiotherapy, School of Sports, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences at University of Birmingham, Birmingham.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Rehabilitation Science and Physiotherapy, School of Sports, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK