Sylvia Anne Mackie

Design process for a communication skills program for science and engineering research students

Sylvia Anne Mackie

Engineering students need to develop skills in communication, and over the past several decades undergraduate programs have been augmented in line with this expectation (Russell, 2013). However, the need for postgraduate engineering students to develop skills to better communicate their research has …

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Contribution of the doctoral education environment to PhD candidates’ mental health problems: a scoping review

Sylvia Anne Mackie, Glen Bates

Recent research into the mental health of PhD candidates suggests that their high levels of stress could be caused in part or exacerbated by aspects of the doctoral education environment. However, the particulars of this environment have not been explored in consistent …

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Identifying curricular tensions in a technology innovation doctoral programme

Sylvia Anne Mackie, Onnida Thongpravati

This project investigated the curriculum of a new industry-collaborative PhD in technology innovation. While the programme was in its early stages, we focused on conceptualising its curricular design with the aim of unpacking its complexity and, where possible, mitigating its tensions. The …

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‘Building up speed’, ‘trying to break free’, ‘pushing it through the pipe’: using metaphor to explore early career STEM researchers’ grant writing capability

Sylvia Anne Mackie, Sally L. McArthur

This study demonstrates the use of metaphor analysis in needs assessment for developmental support and shows how it can be used to critically examine assumptions in the literature about the ways emerging researchers conceptualize their career trajectory. We investigated the professional development …

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Conceptualising an integrative doctoral curriculum

Sylvia Anne Mackie, Onnida Thongpravati

Much research into the doctorate has focused on changing pedagogies and proposed various versions of a shift from an apprenticeship-based model, culminating in the 'thesis as product', to a training-based model, culminating in the development of skilled researchers and advanced practitioners. However …

Future pedagogical design for a university-industry collaborative doctoral program

Sylvia Anne Mackie, Onnida Thongpravati

This paper investigates what the future may hold for PhD students in terms of how they understand and negotiate the different kinds of training they need in interdisciplinary and university-industry collaborative settings. The past decade has seen an increase in integrated doctoral …

Ethnographic needs analysis in support of STEM doctoral writing

Sylvia Anne Mackie

Gaps, Transitions, Adjoining, Embedding: Kenneth Hale on the Reanalysis and Grammaticalization of the Relative Clause

Sylvia Anne Mackie

Innovative aspects of Kenneth Hale’s study ‘Gaps in grammar and culture’ (Hale 1975) are discussed in the context of the paper’s contemporary setting to demonstrate that the reasons for the sidelining of his work stem from the transitional and fast-changing nature of …

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What kind of English language instruction do students of Engineering need

Sylvia Anne Mackie

This paper examines evidence given in support of English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP) over English for General Academic Purposes (Liyanage & Birch 2001), as well as more general arguments for Content Based Language Learning (CBLL) (Kasper 1994, 1997, Brinton et al. …