Norwegian PhD students' discourses about practice‐relevant research in the field of health and social work KRISTOFFERSEN et al.

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1## INTRODUCTION High-quality doctoral education is a significant issue worldwide, especially in Western countries (Jablonski, [nop2432-bib-0025]; Jones, [nop2432-bib-0026]; Lee, Brennan, & Green, [nop2432-bib-0030]; Maynard, Vaughn, Sarteschi, & Berglund, [nop2432-bib-0036]; Scott, Brown, Lunt, & Thorne, [nop2432-bib-0046]; Taylor, [nop2432-bib-0050]), where the emergence of higher education studies primarily occurred after the Second World War (Macfarlane & Burg, [nop2432-bib-0033]). The PhD students in this study were carriers of certain types of knowledge because they were professionals an