This article explores the origins of researcher development in British universities. Its principal aim is to provide a coherent, and reasonably succinct, account of the evolution and development of researcher development that is as consistent as possible with what is known about the development of the Western university, the history of the research doctorate and the emergence of the research university. The main conclusion is that the origins of researcher development in the modern university can be found in the philology of the early modern university, which in turn emerged from the accumulation of knowledge in Western Christendom from other places and other times. Other conclusions are that there was little researcher development in the medieval university, and that the ‘traditional’ model of researcher development, centred on the PhD, is much more recent than is commonly supposed, so that, from a long-term perspective, the ‘traditional model’ may be but one stage in its continuing development. The article also develops a model that locates researcher development within a series of intellectual contexts: from the research process itself, to the advancement of knowledge more generally, and, finally, to changes in conceptions of knowledge itself.

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大学研究人员发展：起源和历史背景

本文探讨了英国大学研究人员发展的起源。其主要目的是对研究人员发展的演变和发展提供一个连贯且合理简洁的说明，尽可能与西方大学的发展、研究型博士学位的历史和研究型博士的出现保持一致。研究型大学。主要结论是，现代大学研究人员发展的起源可以在早期现代大学的文献学中找到，而文献学又是从其他地方和其他时代西方基督教世界的知识积累中出现的。其他结论是，中世纪大学几乎没有研究人员发展，而且以博士为中心的“传统”研究人员发展模式，比通常想象的要新得多，因此，从长远来看，“传统模式”可能只是其持续发展的一个阶段。本文还开发了一个模型，将研究人员的发展置于一系列知识背景中：从研究过程本身，到更普遍的知识进步，最后到知识本身概念的变化。