https://ir.zou.ac.zw/files/original/218c3b1fe09bd554ad963cbd8e964508.pdf 35991766e7562b3215cf74a3df97d545 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Staff Publications Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource EXPLORING CHALLENGES FACED BY PHD SUPERVISORS AND CANDIDATES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES IN THE AFRICAN CONTEXT Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource PAUL MUPA Description An account of the resource Postgraduate supervisors and their candidates experience a myriad of challenges during their journeys to reaching to PhD. This study explores challenges encountered by doctoral supervisors and candidates in Social Sciences in the African context. The study employed qualitative methodology informed by the interpretivist philosophy and convenience sampling was employed to generate data. Focus group discussions were used to generate data from twenty-five PhD supervisors who had gathered at a workshop in one of the African countries. For data presentation and analysis, emergent themes that were generated hinged on supervisor challenges, student challenges, methodological challenges, infrastructural challenges, and policy challenges. The study recommends intensive training of PhD supervisors. The study also recommends the need for universities to run workshops with doctoral supervisors to provide them with the fundamentals of doctoral thesis coaching and mentoring. Candidates need workshops from the onset of the PhD journey. Universities need to up skill their PhD supervisors so that they guide their candidates to produce quality work. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available SAJELM candidates postgraduate; PhD supervisors supervision