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The Doctor of Social Sciences (DSocSci) program at Royal Roads University, Victoria, British Columbia (BC), Canada, is now in its fifth year of operation. In the spring and fall of 2014 we graduated our first six doctoral students. The program is based on a scholar-practitioner model with an interdisciplinary academic framework. Most of our students are highly placed, full-time working professionals who are also pursuing fulltime doctoral work and find it necessary to blend their professional activities with their doctoral research. The students bring an amazing variety of experiences and research foci to the program as, in many ways, their professional careers demand interdisciplinary epistemologies.
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Pulla, S., Schissel, B. (2016). The Transition from Discipline-Based Scholarship to Interdisciplinarity: Implications for Faculty. In: Storey, V.A. (eds) International Perspectives on Designing Professional Practice Doctorates. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137527066_12
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