Human Resource Development Doctoral Education in a Post-2020 World

Abstract: The COVID-19 crisis amplified calls for changes in HRD research, higher education, and practice. HRD doctoral programs are uniquely situated to facilitate these changes and yet are underexplored in HRD higher education research. Although the effects of the pandemic are still unfolding, we are no longer in a state of emergency and can pause to look at HRD doctoral programs retrospectively. This focus session invites those involved and/or interested in HRD doctoral education to share their experiences and views on whether and/or how HRD doctoral programs are responding to calls for change and how they envision post-2020 HRD doctoral education.