Touchstone Beginnings - Digital Doctorate
How is digitization transforming doctoral education?
Mick Winter 38 - Preparing a posthumous thesis for examination
enJuly 16, 2017
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About this Episode
Steve and Tara talk about the challenges, opportunities and surprises when preparing Mick Winter's PhD thesis for examination. They offer models for other supervisors when managing - emotionally and intellectually - the death of a student.
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