Doctoral Supervisor and Student Identities

Grant, B. Rosemary; Mitchell, Catherine; Okai, Edward; Burford, James; Xu, Linlin; Ingram, Toni; Cameron-Lewis, Vanessa

doi:10.1007/978-94-6300-310-0_10

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“…For international students, this is even more so, given that their lived experience is intricately entwined with different temporalities and spaces. As has been discussed elsewhere (e.g., Dai & Hardy, 2021;Grant et al, 2016;Moran et al, 2021), this research reveals doctoral identity is relational in ways much more nuanced and diversified than could be adequately captured in an orthodox discourse of formal doctoral curriculum that focusses on learning activities and attainments occurring strictly within the academic setting. It contributes further empirical weight to the value of teasing out those daily, unconscious and taken-for-granted realities.…”

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An autoethnography of an international doctoral student’s multidimensional identity construction

2022

Aust. Educ. Res.

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There is a scarcity of scholarship that sheds light on international doctoral students’ identity construction in quotidian encounters beyond the formal curriculum. In this autoethnographic study, based on my diary entries, via a socio-constructivist lens, I teased out my multidimensional identity construction by referring to situations, activities and relations embedded in daily experiences during my overseas study sojourn. My autoethnography reveals that how I make sense of my becoming and being as a Chinese sojourning in Australia for doctoral education transcends the experientiality of doing research alone, but incorporates gendered, sociocultural and professional facets within my past-present-future life trajectory. As I navigated these encounters, strategically mobilising my agency and utilising structural contexts towards the aim of achieving ontological security, I engaged in negotiating a transformative identity. The research calls for more studies in the future that explore the complexities and nuances of international doctoral students’ identity construction in quotidian realities.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 54%

An autoethnography of an international doctoral student’s multidimensional identity construction

2022

Aust. Educ. Res.

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“…There is, of course, a proper place for academic humility [48,49], but as Devine and Hunter [37] suggest, "supportive supervision and the ability for doctoral students to be themselves' should reduce doctoral student emotional exhaustion and self-presentation behaviours, thus leading to better student outcomes" (p. 1). Again, peer and supervisor interactions, as well as emerging tangible success, such as positively received writing assignments, seminar or conference presentations, and other symptoms of productive participation in a research community, can be critical to addressing the related issues [16,20,24,32,50] Work-life balance can be also an issue for candidates, and there is some evidence that it is a factor in both reduced mental wellbeing [14,23,51] and non-or delayed completion [19,23]. The research policy literature evidences concerns about the potential impact of current academic working conditions on doctoral students', as well as academics', mental health [26].…”

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“…Doctoral studies are inherently challenging [50,73]. Whatever challenges a doctoral student faces on a personal or professional front, those might initially be discussed with a sympathetic supervisor, but should they reach significant proportions, the student either needs time away from the doctorate or to access expert support-or both.…”

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Supporting Doctoral Students in Crisis

Golding

2023

Encyclopedia

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A doctoral student is one undertaking the highest level of university study, leading to a doctoral qualification (of which the traditional and most common form is the PhD), that typically requires they demonstrate a significant contribution to knowledge and their own preparedness to undertake independent research. Crisis in this entry is taken to be a time of great difficulty or a time when a difficult or important decision must be made. In the context of doctoral students, a crisis often brings a threat to the completion of the doctorate.

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Curating care-full spaces: doctoral students negotiating study from home

Burford

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2019

Higher Education Research & Development

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This article explores how care and space shape doctoral becoming. We extend previous higher education research that has critically examined the spatial arrangements of postgraduate study to explore how doctoral students negotiate both study from home and care-work responsibilities. The article draws on collaborative autoethnographic texts created by the authors to understand the ways in which care shaped their decisions about study spaces. We identify both exclusions and disadvantage in these accounts, at the same time as we discern wilfulness in the ways the contradictory positions of postgraduate student and caregiver were negotiated. We conclude the article by arguing that educational spaces are involved in the maintenance of academic norms that position care-work as invisible and out-of-place/space. Despite this, the creation of productive home spaces that facilitate both care and doctoral work remain possible.

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Doctoral Supervisor and Student Identities

Cited by 7 publications

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An autoethnography of an international doctoral student’s multidimensional identity construction

An autoethnography of an international doctoral student’s multidimensional identity construction

Supporting Doctoral Students in Crisis

Curating care-full spaces: doctoral students negotiating study from home

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