Dr Martyn Polkinghorne made his first contribution to the FLIE@BU LinkedIn Page with an article on The Changing Face of Doctoral Studies.

The number of doctoral students in the UK, and the variety of types of doctorates, have grown enormously. With now over 100,000 new doctoral students starting their research degree in the UK each year, and a relatively unchanged number of academic staff within UK universities available to act as a supervisor, the gentle one to one relationship of the original PhD model is largely impossible.  

 The complete article is available on LinkedIn.