The journey will include a mix of academic supervision (mainly 1:1), support via UTS Startups to form a stronger community among ePhD participant, coursework, conferences, and more.

Exact details are being co-designed with you!

The standard journey

The standard journey is in three stages, for which I’m including stage 0 as the application process:

• Stage 0: Crafting a good draft proposal, finding a supervisor who’ll support your application and your academic journey, compiling your application, pressing submit.
• Stage 1: Historically, about a year into the journey, you now have a more detailed view of the area of research in which you want to answer one or more research questions, have a draft research ethics application (if involving data about/by humans), and a timeline for the rest of the journey.
• Stage 2: Historically, about two years in, you’ve collected data specific to the research question and have some preliminary insights
• Stage 3: Around 3 years, you’re getting close to the final, rigorously tested & robust analysis, findings and implications.
• Examination (shortly after Stage 3): Your ‘thesis’ (e.g. compilation of publishable/published manuscripts, NTRO, or otherwise) is sent out for external examination by academics who are at arm’s length to you and your academic supervisors.

The journey for this PhD can look like that, but it can also be a little different in that you might already have data via your past or current venture or might even have a well developed research question or writings to craft for a more academic audience, thus shortening the journey.

In general, its up to your supervisor to point to you a PhD desk / office / lab, usually within their school & faculty. This proximity helps for all the research related questions you’ll have.

The “program”

Depending on your supervisor, their faculty or school, there might be some PhD level coursework (usually about qualitative methods, quantitative methods, and philosophy/theory development). The GRS also offers workshops to all 2200+ PhDs. And, you can usually audit any subject you’re interested in (e.g. attend the lectures, workshops, seminars, tutorials, etc but not complete the assessment), with permission of whoever is teaching that subject. There is more applied entrepreneurship coursework for all ePhD candidates, but you’re welcome to apply for exemption based on your experience.

This is where it gets interesting …

Based on your interest, availability, commitment, .. can we run a cohort-based model (somewhat away from your academic supervisors) that this more like YC, TechStars, etc, with office & desk space among UTS Startups.

Let’s explore in the next workshop & online.

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