Traversing the Doctorate: Situating Scholarship and Identifying Issues

Abstract

doctoral students, supervisors and programs is extensive, and continues to grow rapidly. As we elaborate below, the propositions and themes emerging from that research are diverse, and represent assumptions and perspectives from multiple disciplines and paradigms. At the same time, it is possible to discern some common concerns and abiding interests in that research that constitute stable landmarks that in turn facilitate efforts directed at "traversing the doctorate". This chapter presents a necessarily distilled overview of selected literature relating to doctoral study and supervision, including highlighting