0 relating to a doctorate (= the highest degree from a university):
a doctoral dissertation
She is a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics.
1 relating to the highest-ranking degree given by a university:
She is a doctoral candidate at Yale.
As one professor and six doctoral students, the authors co-taught a course on action research while doing a self study of their teaching.
A minimum period of one year is typically recommended for full-time fieldwork towards a doctoral degree.
Scholarly articles leave unanswered questions for the next doctoral candidate to resolve.
However, a significant weakness is its handling of sources, which is curious as the work is essentially a doctoral dissertation.
