Quality of Doctoral Education in Asia: Building Success for Future Higher Education in Changing Times
A collaboration between Higher Education Evaluation and Development (HEED) and Higher Education Research Association (HERA) for the 1st HERA Doctoral Student Conference at Seoul National University, South Korea, 15–16 January 2025.
Overview
Doctoral education emerges as a strategic resource for the knowledge society and economy. Countries are urged to reinforce their capacities for research and knowledge production, application, and dissemination and, thus, for doctoral education as a way to feed knowledge and innovation systems (Cardoso et al., 2020, p. 106). The quality of doctoral education is important for the future of higher education.
As higher education is expected to respond to emerging trends and social needs, universities have been given more responsibilities, and faculties have also been faced with many challenges to enter new areas. Doctoral education emerges as a strategic resource for the knowledge society and economy. Countries are urged to reinforce their capacities for research and knowledge production, application, and dissemination; thus, doctoral education has been seen as an important way to feed knowledge and innovation systems.
Consequently, this makes it more complex to define the success of doctoral education, which leads to the development of younger scholars and teachers for higher education. In Asia, as the development of doctoral education becomes more mature, yet there are also challenges and opportunities for future higher education depending on various global and social contexts. Therefore, studies and research focusing on the quality of doctoral education in Asia can bring us more insights to provide to the governments and universities for strategic planning.
Higher Education Evaluation and Development (HEED) is a scholarly refereed journal that aims to encourage research in higher education evaluation and development, raising the standard of evaluation research and sharing discoveries and insights worldwide.
As a full-English journal since 2016, HEED has been published online and open access through Emerald Publishing since 2017. It welcomes original papers, research findings, traditional qualitative studies, case studies, and reviews in the field of higher education evaluation and development. HEED also encourages young scholars to publish research papers.
Collaborating with the 1st HERA Doctoral Student Conference, HEED will organize a special issue dedicated to assisting postgraduate students in publishing their research studies and promoting the development of future researchers. The collaboration between HEED and HERA will promote the exchange of ideas, increase the international visibility of both bodies, and strengthen the promotion of quality in higher education.
Main Themes
The papers to be published in this Special Issue will focus on issues related to doctoral education in Asian countries from the perspective of higher education institutions, quality assurance agencies, faculty members, students, and society. The topics of the articles will be categorized into the following themes:
- Quality of Doctoral Education and PhD Student Competencies
- Career Path and Academic Development for Young Scholars
- Research and Development in Academic-Industrial Collaboration: Social Perspective of Doctoral Education
- The Future of Doctoral Education Quality
Schedule for Submission and Publication
- Abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2025
- Notification of abstract acceptance: 31 March 2025
- Full manuscript submission deadline: 30 November 2025
- Proposed publication date: November 2026
Submission Guidelines
If you are interested in publishing your research in this Special Issue, please submit an abstract (no more than 400 words) to wxiong@eduhk.hk by 15 March 2025.
The full manuscript should be up to a maximum of 7,000 words in length. This includes all text (i.e., the structured abstract, references, tables, figures, and appendices). Please see the author guidelines for the details about the manuscript requirements and support. Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else.
If you have any questions, please contact the guest editor, Dr. Weiyan Xiong at wxiong@eduhk.hk or Dr. Yusuf Oldac at yioldac@eduhk.hk.
Guest Editors
- Dr. Weiyan Xiong
Assistant Professor at the Department of International Education, Fellow of the Center for Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies (CHELPS), Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Dr. Yusuf Ikbal Oldac
Assistant Professor at the Department of Education Policy and Leadership, Fellow of the Center for Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies (CHELPS), Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Reference
Cardoso, S., Rosa, M. J., & Miguéis, V. (2020). Quality assurance of doctoral education: Current trends and future developments. In S. Cardoso, O. Tavares, C. Sin, & T. Carvalho (Eds.), Structural and institutional transformations in doctoral education: Social, political and student expectations (pp. 105–139), Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38046-5_5
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