How Do Doctoral Students Experience Writing and Thesis production? : Qualitative Analysis of the Irish National Survey of Postgraduate Students.

Higher education (HE) policy emphasises the importance of high-quality doctoral education that prepares graduates for the knowledge economy. To support this, HE policy fora and higher education institutions (HEIs) have focused on institutional training programmes for doctoral supervisors. Writing and thesis production are central to the experience and success of doctoral students yet, in an Irish context, this topic has received little research attention. We applied the research question ‘how do doctoral students in Irish HEIs experience writing and thesis production’ to the free-text responses in the 2019 PGR StudentSurvey.ie dataset. Qualitative thematic analysis identified three main themes in doctoral students’ comments: a zone of uncertainty, writing and the role of the supervisor and institutional responsibilities. The paper highlights that doctoral students have unmet writing support needs. It also identifies the importance of institutional supports, such as physical writing space, and calls for a reimagination of current doctoral supervision and academic writing practice to enable discursive spaces of collaboration for students, their supervisors and discipline specific writing specialists

(Better) Stories from Pandemic

Turkish edition of the (Better) Stories from Pandemic. Editörler: Aglietti, Claudia; Delaney, Caitriona; Ensari, Pınar; Ghidoni, Elena; Harroche, Audrey; Still, Alexis; Türker, Nazlı İrtibat kişisi: Detsis, Emmanuel Araştırmacılar: Aglietti, Claudia; Antonijevic, Zorana; Beck, Celina; Berliri, Maresa; Bobek, Alicja; Ciaputa, Ewelina; Cheveigné, Suzanne de; de Vries, Miranda; Montalbán, Paloma Ellis; Ensari, Pınar; Ghidoni, Elena; Golemanova, Ralitsa; Guenther, Elisabeth Anna; Izaguirre, Ainhoa; Jóhannsdóttir, Guðbjörg Helga; Kambouri, Nelli; Kende, Agnes; Kerremans, Aart; Kyprianou, Maria; Martin, Annika; Maufras Černohorská, Vanda; Ocenasova, Zuzana; Rolandsen Agustin, Lise; Sales de Oliveira, Catarina; Salome Steinþórsdóttir, Finnborg; Sandström, Lina; Sarnavka, Sanja; Still, Alexis; Stovell, Clare; Stroe, Monica; Tanhua, Inkeri; Thidemann Faber, Stine; Nielsen, Lærke Thrysøe; Tretjakova, Vaida; Tuncer, Fatma; Türker, Nazlı; Tzanakou, Charikleia; van Engen, Marloes; Wienand Sangare, Carolina; Wuiame, Nathalie; Wuiame, Nathalie; Zitmane, Marita; Zupevc, Katarina Çizim ve tasarım: Özgüner, Özge; Alpar, Aslı Danışmanlar: Altınay, Ayşe Gül; Cacace, Marina; Belloso, Maria López; Strid, Sofia; Tzanakou, Charikleia Çeviri: Ensari, Pınar; Türker, Nazlı; Selici, Begüm; Altınay, Ayşe Gü

(BETTER) STORIES FROM THE PANDEMIC

“(Better) stories From the Pandemic” is a book collecting 80 stories, 80 interviews with people who shared their experiences during the pandemic, experiences that speak about gender and intersecting inequalities. During Resistiré we have collected almost 800 interviews and at some point, we wondered “how could we give these stories wider dissemination and allow them to inspire others? Then the idea of the book was brought forward. In the pages of the book you will find the experiences of people who were already exposed to systemic social injustices, even before the pandemic shocked the world. In their own voices, the protagonists open up to tell how some of their difficulties suddenly escalated and became extremely unbearable during the crisis. You will find stories of working mothers juggling various tasks. Stories of health workers exposed to unbearable risks and stress. Stories of young transsexuals forced into isolation with hostile parents. As well as undocumented migrants, people with disabilities and older people exposed to isolation. In terms of structure, the book has no chapters, it is not divided in themes, nor by country. We resisted the idea of clustering each story in a specific theme. Instead, we liked this idea of having a flow, and sequencing the stories in waves: a challenging story is followed by one that conveys hope, resistance or change

Resistire: agenda for future research. Addressing the impacts of Covid-19 policies on gendered inequalities - cycle 3

This Agenda for Future Research contains the identification of knowledge and research gaps. It outlines which research questions and topics future research should address in six distinct areas: health inequalities, age and ageing in times of crisis, digitalisation, access to green spaces, civic responses to crisis and gender-based violence. (Editors: Lina Sandström; Anne-Charlott Callerstig, Sofia Strid) Research Agenda on Civic Responses to Crisis (Authors: Ayşe Gül Altınay, Pınar Ensari, Nazlı Türker, p.30-37