Innovative approaches in doctoral education: an introduction to emerging directions in doctoral education / Patrick Blessinger, Denise Stockley -- Doctoral education for the future: through the looking glass / Gerard Hoyne, Julia Alessandrini, Marc Fellman -- Scholar-in-training; Leader-in-training: the Rutgers University Predoctoral Leadership Development Institute / Ralph A. Gigliotti, Brian D. Agnew, Christine Goldthwaite, Surabhi Sahay, Maria Dwyer, Brent D. Ruben -- Managing the psychological contract within doctoral supervisory relationships / Sally Sambrook -- Disciplinarity issues in educational technology doctoral supervision / Gale Parchoma, Jeffrey M. Keefer -- Living theory in action: preparing a new generation of educational researchers / Karen L. Ford, Elena Yu. Polush, Nancy J. Brooks -- Creating a decolonized alliance: American Indian and Alaska native doctoral leadership program / Kem M.Gambrell, Lazarina N.Topuzova -- Collision and coalescence - German and British cultures in doctoral education / Wolfgang Deicke, Johannes Moes, Johannes Siemens -- Client-based dissertations in practice / Kathleen Haywood, Kimberly Allen, Felicita Myers -- Learning like adults: a hybrid interdisciplinary doctoral program for mid-career professionals / Judith Beth Cohen, Jo Ann Gammel, Amy Rutstein-Riley -- Applying self-determination theory to improve completion rates in a part-time professional doctorate program / Grace McCarthy -- Differentiation and integration: managing the paradox in doctoral education / Jon F.Wergin, Laurien Alexandre -- Qualified ... for what? the potential for qualifying exams to become meaningful professional milestones / Jessica Riviere -- Joint doctoral supervision across countries: changes, challenges and considerations / Elise van den Hoven, Julia Connell -- Developing institutional leadership for the scholarship of graduate student supervision: lessons learned in a Canadian research-intensive university / Anthony Clarke, Harry Hubball, Andrea Webb.