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Pre-DBA workshop

Research and Professional Doctorates (draft)

Date: from 11 May to13 2012

Place:in Beijing,China

Day 1 –Friday 11 May 2012

9.00 / Arrival and refreshments
9.30 / Welcome
The objectives and purpose of the programme
Mutual introductions by the participantsand teaching team
Introduction to NottinghamTrentUniversity
Professor Weili Teng and Professor Colin Fisher
10.00 / What is a professional doctorate, what is engaged scholarship and what is ‘doctorateness’?
Professor Colin Fisher
11.15 / Break
11.30 / Introduction to the Nottingham Business School DBA, its structure and processes
Professor Colin Fisher
1.00 / Lunch
2.00 / What is a suitable “problem” or topic of professional doctorate research?
Discussion led by Professor Colin Fisher, involving delegates and current DBA students
3.30 / Break
3.45 / Research skills: methodology and methods, citation, the avoidance of plagiarism, contrasting doctoral writing with management report writing.
Professor Weili Teng
5.00 / Closing remarks
Colin and Weili

Day 2 –Saturday 12 May 2012

9.00 / Research skills (continued)
11.00 / Break
11.20 / Doing a part time DBA and time management; and the importance of deadlines.
Colin Fisher & Weili Teng
12.30 / Lunch
1.30 / Writing and arguing in doctoral research:
Is there a difference in Western and Chinese rhetorical traditions?
Professor Colin Fisher
3.00 / Break
3.00-5.00 / Designing research in Professional Doctorates – what happens if your programme is predicated on action learning? A short presentation and exercise led by Colin and Weili

Day 3Sunday 13 May 2012

9.30 / The implications of English as the lingua franca of management and of management research: Does the use of English prioritise some values and ways of thinking over others? The problems of developing mastery and creating knowledge through the medium of English
Professor Weili Teng
11.00 / Break
11.20 / Contrasting culture and values of Higher Education in China and the UK. Differing emphases on knowledge, reflection, dialogue and critique.
Professor Weili Teng
12.30 / Lunch
1.30 / Opportunity to review ‘Good Practice examples’ of DBA documents.
Opportunity to view completed DBA projects on NottinghamTrentUniversity’s Institutional repository
Opportunity to have your potential research topics for discussion
Professor Weili Teng
4.00 / Close of programme and farewells
Issuing attendance certificate

Note: individual interview will take place in the evening or lunch time in the first and second day.

Contact details:

Dr Weili Teng: ; Tel. 0115 848 8697

Place：Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Haidian District Zhongguancun road 80, Chinese Academy of Sciences Graduate Residence building six room three layer H307Xinjiang doctoral special classroom, see map

上课地点：北京市海淀区中关村东路80号中国科学院研究生公寓六号楼三层H307室新疆博士班专用教室，详见地图