[Air-l] Best Practices in Ph.D. Education for Design [ CFP: Special Journal Issue ]

[Ken Friedman]

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Special issue

The journal Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education will 
publish a special issue on best practices in Ph.D. education for 
design in November 2002.

We seek articles offering examples of best practice and models for 
what should be done in developing the Ph.D. in design.

We invite submissions on topics on all aspects of doctoral education.

Suggested themes:

Supervision
Content of taught courses
Management of courses-by-research
Admission practice
Curriculum development
Program planning
Staffing needs
Resource allocation
Thesis requirements
Research methods requirements
Operational definitions of degree programs.
Budgeting
Research funding
Quality assurance

This issue will focus on exclusively the research doctorate. In most 
cases, this is the degree titled Ph.D. We will not consider the 
doctorate in professional practice (f.ex., D.Des.), the studio 
doctorate (DFA, DCA), or the teaching doctorate (DA, Ed.D.)

We recognize that doctoral awards differ among nations and across 
disciplines. We will consider articles on doctoral research degrees 
with different titles as long as the award is a research degree with 
a clearly defined research component.

The editors of the special issue are David Durling and Ken Friedman.

David Durling is director of the Advanced Research Institute at 
Staffordshire University School of Art and Design. He is also chair 
of the Design Research Society and editor of Design Research News.

Ken Friedman is Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic 
Design in the Department of Technology and Knowledge Management, 
Norwegian School of Management. He is also Visiting Professor at 
Staffordshire University.

Together, Durling and Friedman organized and chaired the 
international conference on doctoral education in design in La 
Clusaz, France.


Submission Guidelines

Aims and Scope

Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education is a refereed 
journal which aims to inform, stimulate and promote the development 
of research with a learning and teaching focus for art, design and 
communication within higher education. This issue is focused on 
design.

Notes for Contributors

We will only consider papers that are not being considered for 
publication elsewhere. If there is more than one author, please 
attach to every submission a letter confirming that all authors have 
agreed to the submission and that the article is not currently being 
considered for publication by any other journal.

Procedure

Submissions will be circulated for double blind peer review. It is 
the aim of the journal editorial team that authors will normally be 
informed of the submission's suitability for the journal within eight 
weeks. Authors of accepted papers will, in due course, receive proofs 
of their articles and be asked to send corrections to the editor.

Types of contribution

There are three possible types of contribution:

Major Papers - suggested length is 5000-6000 words.

Material presented will contribute to knowledge in its field and 
should include original work of a research or developmental nature 
and/or proposed new methods or ideas which are clearly and thoroughly 
presented and argued.

Shorter Items of length 1,000 - 2,500 words.

These could include reports of research in progress, reflections on 
the research process, research evaluations of funded projects.

Reviews

Of relevant recent publications, electronic media, software and 
conference reports. Separate guidelines for reviewers are available, 
please contact Paul B Clark for details - p.clark at bton.ac.uk

Format

Each manuscript should contain:

i) title page with full title and subtitle (if any). For the purposes 
of blind refereeing, full name of each author with current 
affiliation and full address/phone/fax/email details plus a short 
biographical note (150 words) should be supplied on a separate sheet.

(ii) abstract of 100-150 words

(iii) 3-6 key words

(iv) the main text should be clearly organised with a hierarchy of 
heading and subheadings, with quotations exceeding 40 words 
displayed, indented, in the text. Main headings should be typed in 
capitals, secondary headings should be in lower case.

(v) the style should be clear and concise, using straightforward 
language. If technical terms or acronyms must be included, they 
should be defined when first introduced. UK spellings should be used.

(iv) footnotes should be avoided

(v) references in the text should be made thus - author's name, year 
of publication in brackets, relevant page numbers. If reference is 
made to a number of publications by an author in the same year, these 
should be distinguished by using suffixes (2001a, 2001b etc)

References should be listed alphabetically at the end of paper as the 
following examples:

Cina, C. (1994) TINA's Academy, in De Ville, N and Foster, S (Eds) 
The Artist and the Academy: Issues in Fine Art Education and the 
Wider Cultural Context. Southampton: John Hansard Gallery

Dudley, E & Mealing, S. (2000) Becoming Designers: Education and 
Influence. Exeter: Intellect

Gregg, P. (1996) Modularisation: what academics think, in Higher 
Education Quality
Council, In Focus: Modular Higher Education in the UK. London: HEQC

Higher Education Quality Council (1994) Choosing to change: extending 
access, choice and mobility in higher education. The report of the 
HEQC CAT development project (the Robertson report) London: HEQC

O'Sullivan, T. (1998) Nostalgia, Revelation and Intimacy. In 
Geraghty, C. and Lusted, D. (eds) The Television Studies Handbook, 
London: Arnold

Prosser, M. & Trigwell, K. (1999). Understanding learning and 
teaching: The experience of higher education. Buckingham: SRHE/Open 
University Press.

(vi) A total word count, including references should be provided.

Tables and figures

Tables and figures should be prepared on separate sheets, clearly 
labelled and their position indicated by a marginal note in the text. 
Tables contain numbers, figures contain diagrams or mainly words. All 
tables and figures should have short descriptive captions and their 
source(s) typed below.

Illustrations

Illustrations should be numbered consecutively and be accompanied by 
short descriptive captions. Line diagrams should be presented in a 
form suitable for immediate reproduction (ie not requiring 
redrawing), each on a separate A4 sheet or as scanned images. 
Photographic images should preferably be submitted as JPEGs scanned 
full size at 300 dpi and given clear titles (other formats, GIFFs , 
TIFFs and EPS files can also be accepted).

NB Authors are responsible for obtaining permissions from copyright 
holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy 
quotations previously published elsewhere.

Copyright:

Before publication, authors are requested to assign copyright to the 
ADC-LTSN subject to retaining their right to reuse the material in 
other publications written or edited by themselves and due to be 
published at least one year after initial publication in the Journal.

Liability:

The authors of the Journal warrant that their works, collectively or 
individually do not infringe any Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) 
or violate any laws. The authors shall indemnify the association and 
hold the association harmless from any damages and liabilities 
arising from any breach of IPR in connection with their literary or 
artistic contributions to the Association and its journal.

Submission:

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically as a Word file in the 
form of an attachment to an e-mail. If the file is large because it 
contains images it should compressed with StuffIt or ZipIt. 
Alternatively it may be sent on a Zip disk (Mac compatible).

Send to:

Kath Bowden,
Editorial Assistant:
k.m.bowden at bton.ac.uk

Review submissions should be sent to Paul B Clark 
(p.clark at bton.ac.uk). Please consult the Reviewers guidelines for 
further details.

For further information about the journal, contact the Editorial 
Assistant: Kath Bowden, ADC-LTSN, University of Brighton, 68 Grand 
Parade, Brighton, Sussex, BN2 2JY.

Tel / Fax: 01273 643119 Email: k.m.bowden at bton.ac.uk




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