- 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
