1. Introduction / David Boud and Alison Lee
2. Framing doctoral education as practice / Alison Lee and David Boud
3. Converging paradigms for doctoral training in the sciences and humanities / Laura Jones
4. Disciplinary voices : a shifting landscape for English doctoral education in the twenty-first century / Lynn McAlpine, Anthony Pare and Doreen Starke-Meyerring
5. doctorate as curriculum : a perspective on goals and outcomes of doctoral education / Rob Gilbert
6. Enhancing the doctoral experience at the local level / Diana Leonard and Rosa Becker
7. Writing for the doctorate and beyond / Alison Lee and Claire Aitchison
8. PhD education in science : producing the scientific mindset in biomedical sciences / Margot Pearson, Anna Cowan and Adrian Liston
9. Representing doctoral practice in the laboratory sciences / Jim Cumming
10. Supervision development and recognition in a reflexive space / Angela Brew and Tai Peseta
11. Specialised knowledge in UK professions : relations between the state, the university and the workplace / David Scott, Andrew Brown, Ingrid Lunt and Lucy Thorne
12. Projecting the PhD : architectural design research by and through practice / Brent Allpress and Robyn Barnacle
13. Building doctorates around individual candidates' professional experience / Carol Costley and John Stephenson
14. Doctoral education in risky times / Erica McWilliam
15. New challenges in doctoral education in Europe / Alexandria Bitusikova
16. Policy driving change in doctoral education : an Australian case study / Ruth Neumann
17. Regulatory regimes in doctoral education / Mark Tennant
18. Challenging perspectives, changing practices : doctoral education in transition / Bill Green.