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Deconstructing Doctoral Discourses

Stories and Strategies for Success

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Editors:
  1. Deborah L. Mulligan

    1. School of Education, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

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  2. Naomi Ryan

    1. UniSQ College, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

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  3. Patrick Alan Danaher

    1. School of Education, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

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  • Presents real world stories of successful strategies for doctoral students and supervisors told from the coal face
  • Covers the narratives of doctoral study and supervision from beginning to beyond
  • Delivers relatable and research-based stories of struggle and triumph in doctoral study and supervision

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods (PSERM)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
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  2. Disrupting Dominant Discourses and Celebrating Counternarratives: Sustaining Success for Doctoral Students and Supervisors

    • Deborah L. Mulligan, Naomi Ryan, Patrick Alan Danaher
    Pages 1-13

  4. Part 2

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-53
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    2. Ethical Doctoral Advisor–Student Relationships in the United States: Uncovering Unknown Perspectives and Actions

      • Jenni L. Harding, Boni Hamilton, Stacy Loyd
      Pages 55-71

    3. Proven Best Practices in Guiding Non-traditional Dissertation Students to Degree Conferral in the United States

      • Gina Peyton, David Brian Ross, Vanaja Nethi, Melissa Tara Sasso, Lucas A. DeWitt
      Pages 73-97

    4. On the Need for Women’s Alliances in the Gendered Spaces of Doctoral Programmes and Academia: An Account of Challenges and Strategies

      • Carolin Müller
      Pages 99-114

    5. Experiencing the Thesis and Its Multiple Strategies in the Start-Up Ecosystem in Montréal, Canada

      • Camille Thomas
      Pages 115-127

    6. Deconstructing the “Ph” in “PhD”

      • S. Jonathan Whitty, Bronte van der Hoorn
      Pages 129-143

    7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Completing a Thesis by Publication

      • Belinda Cash
      Pages 145-159

    8. Incorporating Agile Principles in Completing and Supervising a Thesis by Publication

      • Anup Shrestha
      Pages 161-176

    9. Persistent Myths About Dissertation Writing and One Proven Way of Breaking Free of Their Spell

      • Natalia Kovalyova
      Pages 177-189

    10. Cracking Through the Wall to Let the Light In: Disrupting Doctoral Discourses Through Collaborative Autoethnography

      • Dawne Fahey, Esther Fitzpatrick, Alys Mendus
      Pages 191-211

    11. Alone but Not Lonely: The Joys of Finding Your Online Doctoral Writing Tribe

      • Deborah L. Mulligan
      Pages 213-227

    12. A Doctoral Experience from a Multicultural and Multidisciplinary Perspective

      • Paola R. S. Eiras, Henk Huijser
      Pages 229-242

    13. Horizontal Leadership and Shared Power: Developing Agency and Identity Through Connected Pedagogy in a Writing Circle at an Australian University

      • Gina Curró
      Pages 243-256

    14. Long-Range Impact Through Slow Reverberation: Narratives About Mature-Aged Scholars and Making a Contribution

      • Jeanette Hannaford
      Pages 257-270

    15. My Doctoral Journey in India: A Transformational Opportunity to Know Myself

      • Vinod Kumar Bonu
      Pages 271-287
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About this book

This book identifies and challenges assumptions about the doctorate and the discourses associated with it. The editors and contributors subvert and transform the de facto assumptions that frame the ways in which 'the doctorate' is spoken and written, and thus underpin approaches to planning, conducting and evaluating doctoral research. Giving voice to doctoral students and supervisors, the book opens a pathway for their own stories: why students entered doctoral study, the understandings and experiences they gleaned from it, and the implications for their own character. The book questions what kinds of discourses help to construct contemporary doctoral research, and how these might be de- and reconstructed, and asks what doctoral study might look like in the future. Academics, students and practitioners alike will find an avenue into rigorous research design from reflective and insightful scholars who provide a voice for doctoral strategies for success.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Education, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

    Deborah L. Mulligan, Patrick Alan Danaher

  • UniSQ College, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

    Naomi Ryan

About the editors

Deborah L. Mulligan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. 
 
Naomi Ryan is Lecturer within the USQ College at the Toowoomba Campus of the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. 
 
Patrick Alan Danaher is Professor of Educational Research in the School of Education at the Toowoomba Campus of the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He is also currently Adjunct Professor at Central Queensland University and James Cook University, both in Australia, and Docent in Social Justice and Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Deconstructing Doctoral Discourses

  • Book Subtitle: Stories and Strategies for Success

  • Editors: Deborah L. Mulligan, Naomi Ryan, Patrick Alan Danaher

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11016-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11015-3Published: 02 January 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11018-4Published: 03 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11016-0Published: 01 January 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2662-7345

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-7353

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIX, 344

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Higher Education, Study and Learning Skills, Revision and Exam, Thesis and Dissertation

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