The following is a list of some of  some of the issues which we are posing as the basis for this critique. A full briefing document is available as a link below.

• The terminal degree for design educators?
• The PhD in relation to tenure for design educators
• Design practice as research
• Design vs Art vs Performance as research
• Artefact vs Text as evidence of research
• Artefact vs Text as means for dissemination
• Developing a design research canon
• Research training
• Modes of submission and examination
• Ethics/IRB in relation to design research
• Design research by the individual, in collaboration and applied
• Practitioners as students – implications for part time, distance and life long learning
• PhD as teacher training

A full briefing document can be found here

Critiquing the North American Design PhD

There is now a collection of responses to the Briefing Document by the invited speakers and the symposium participants. These can be downloaded below

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