Resumé and reflection
Reverberations Kerstin Mey
Undoing Supervision
A Compendium of Key Issues in Supervising Artistic Research Doctorates
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Doctoral programmes are growing and diversifying in the European Higher Education Area and globally. Encompassing traditional PhDs as well as structured and professional programmes, their increase is inextricably linked with the development of the knowledge economy and a concomitant focus on creativity and innovation as societal forces with the creative industries as an essential part of post-industrial, economic and social re/generation. The integration of art schools into the higher education sector since the 1970s and the growth of research and advanced programmes of study in artistic disciplines can be considered a logical response to the heightened demand for advanced knowledge and understanding, skills and experiences at the heart of the creativity imperative. The expansion of doctoral programmes in the arts has necessitated an in depths exploration of questions around practices of development, delivery and evaluation embedded in national and
