Traversing the Doctorate

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Traversing the Doctorate: Situating Scholarship and Identifying Issues

   • Tanya M. Machin, Marc Clarà, Patrick Alan Danaher

   Pages 1-12

3. Designing the Doctorate

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-14

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   2. Conceptual Review of Digital Competences for Doctoral Supervision

      • Guillermo Bautista, Anna Escofet

      Pages 15-27

   3. Confirmation of Candidature: An Autoethnographic Reflection from the Dual Identities of Student and Research Administrator

      • Cristy L. Bartlett, Douglas C. Eacersall

      Pages 29-56

   4. Communicating “Success” with Research Students: Institutional Responsibilities in Encouraging a Culture of Research Higher Degree Completions

      • Mark Emmerson

      Pages 57-73

   5. A Picture of the Research Field of Doctoral Education from the Students’ Perspectives: Studies Using Questionnaires and Scales

      • Maria Cerrato Lara, Montserrat Castelló Badia, Kirsti Lonka

      Pages 75-89

   6. Engineering the Doctorate: Designing a Highway to Traverse

      • Jay Somasundaram, Prue Howard

      Pages 91-113

4. Supervising the Doctorate

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-116

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   2. Research on Doctoral Supervision: What We Have Learnt in the Last 10 Years

      • Gabriela González-Ocampo, Montserrat Castelló Badia

      Pages 117-141

   3. Commonalities and Variations in Understanding Doctoral Supervision in Two Australian Universities: A Collaborative Autoethnography and an Interdisciplinary, Phenomenographic Case Study

      • Nona Press, Dolene Rossi, Coralie Graham, Patrick Alan Danaher

      Pages 143-163

   4. Shifting Players: Supervision Changes During the Ph.D. Journey

      • Jennifer Tatebe

      Pages 165-177

   5. Writing Regularly as a Thesis-Completion Strategy

      • Brian Martin

      Pages 179-192

5. Relationships in the Doctorate

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-195

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   2. Tiptoeing Around the Institution? Doctoral Supervision in the Knowledge Economy

      • Atholl Murray, Cecily Jensen-Clayton

      Pages 197-215

   3. Creating a Community of Practice in a Practice-Led Ph.D.

      • Sarah Peters, Janet McDonald

      Pages 217-235

   4. Looking for, Learning from and Finally Becoming the Voice of Experience: A Communities of Practice Perspective on the Doctoral Journey

      • Aastha Malhotra

      Pages 237-251

   5. Supervising at a Distance: The Transformation of Assistance during a Doctoral Journey across Different Continents

      • Bernadita Justiniano, Teresa Mauri, Marc Clarà

      Pages 253-268

   6. Experiencing the Journey Together: The Role of Social Support During the Doctorate

      • Tanya M. Machin, Renée L. Parsons-Smith

      Pages 269-285

   7. You’re My Anchor and My Sail: A Metaphor for a Successful Supervisor/Supervisee Relationship

      • Jennifer Donovan

      Pages 287-301

This book explores the multiple ways in which doctoral programs are traversed by students, supervisors and administrators. Rather than proposing a single, homogeneous approach as the most effective form of doctoral education, the editors and contributors focus on the diversity of global approaches to the doctorate, including doctoral experiences from Australia, Finland, Chile, New Zealand and Spain. The doctorate emerges from this analysis as a highly complex, heterogeneous and situated phenomenon that resists easy solutions. Strategies that are successful in traversing the doctorate are found to be grounded in contexts that cannot necessarily be generalised to other situations: in doing so, the authors emphasise the importance of presenting a diverse array of experiences and stories. The separate and shared perspectives of doctoral students, supervisors and administrations are mapped and analysed in ways that bring their voices compellingly to life: this book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of the doctoral journey, as well as of international and comparative education.

• Doctorate
• Thesis
• Supervising the doctorate
• Supervisor experiences
• Understanding the doctorate

• School of Psychology and Counselling, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

  Tanya M. Machin

• Department of Psychology, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain

  Marc Clarà

• Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

  Patrick Alan Danaher

Tanya M. Machin is Lecturer in Psychology and Counselling at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her research focuses on social media, developmental psychology and research ethics.
 
Marc Clarà is a Serra Húnter Fellow at the University of Lleida, Spain. His research interests include teachers’ reflection, teachers’ emotions and decision-making, and dialogic educational interaction, especially collective inquiry. 
 
Patrick Alan Danaher is Acting Dean of the Graduate Research School at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Education and the Arts at Central Queensland University, Australia, and Docent in Social Justice and Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

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