Rate My Professor Allyson Holbrook

Her research focuses on doctoral education, including supervision, assessment, examiner reports, feedback, and learning outcomes, as well as higher education management, research culture, and professional learning. Holbrook has successfully obtained several Australian Research Council Discovery Grants in areas such as doctoral education, engineering education, and child development, along with four national competitive research grants in doctoral assessment and quality since 2002. Notable publications include "Supervision of Postgraduate Research in Education" (1999, co-authored with S. Johnston), "Claiming a Voice: The First Thirty-Five Years of the Australian Teacher Education Association" (2009), "The Viva in Doctoral Examination: A Habermasian Dialogic Occasion" (2023, co-authored with G. Houston et al.), and numerous articles on PhD examination processes and doctoral learning. She has presented over 100 invited workshops, keynotes, and seminars, teaches research methods with an emphasis on qualitative approaches, and contributes to editorial boards such as Melbourne Studies in Education.