09 September 2008

Aims and objectives of the series

The main aims of the seminar series are to:

  • explore the intellectual and practical opportunities, problems and risks concerning the rise in digital and multimodal research presentation – particularly that of the PhD thesis

  • provide a forum for the exchange of practice in this area

  • inform thinking, including that on regulations and guidance, regarding new formats for the PhD in Education and the social sciences

  • provide better commerce between the creation of knowledge in the field and its dissemination to users



The objectives deriving from the aims and the problem, therefore, are:

  • the creation of generic regulations and guidance for new formats for the PhD in Education and the social sciences

  • see what Education and the social sciences can learn from arts-based theses and computer science practice

  • the distillation of the debates about new formats into articles, a book and a website

  • the creation of a sustainable community of scholars who will take forward thinking in the field