The Role of the Examiner: Scholar, Reviewer, Critic, Judge, Mentor

Abstract

Creative arts’ examiners have multiple identities compared to their traditional academic colleagues. They are at once scholars, reviewers, critics, judges and mentors as they negotiate their way through the plural discourses that the creative arts thesis has become. The manner in which they perform their tasks can influence both novices’ career prospects and the literary culture in general. At the same time, they remain guardians of the establishment, accreditors who decide whether a higher degree should be awarded. Since creative writing is a relatively new discipline in the academy, its standards have been scrutinised closely over the past ten years. Standards for research higher degrees in general, however, are now under review as well ‘in response to demands for greater transparency and accountability’(Lawson, Marsh and Tansley 32). This movement to ensure quality control at anational level will eventually, no doubt, flow back to include the creative arts.

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