Danaher, Patrick

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Layout: Pop_A5 Book ID: 480376_1_En Book ISBN: 978-3-030-23731-8Chapter No.:  Date: 26 July 2019 08:07 Page: 319/321IntroductionThe six chapters in the final part of this book afford opportunities to distil broader lessons and to synthesise wider vistas related to travers-ing the doctorate. Having explored diverse approaches to designing the doctorate, supervising the doctorate and developing relationships in the doctorate, it is time to focus on specific aspects of identity formation and contestation, as well as on pragmatic strategies, associated with maximising success in doctoral students’ journeys. As with the previous parts in the book, the conditions and contexts framing these chapters are distinctive, even unique, yet many elements of these accounts of travelling through and beyond the doctorate resonate resoundingly with doctoral students, supervisors and administrators around the world.In Chapter 18, Clayton Lawrence elaborates the learning dimension of the first year of his doctoral study by posing the profound question, “How did I get here?”, and by linking his responses to that question with the interplay between being and becoming as a transformative pro-ject. Employing autoethnography and reflexivity as his research method, the author traverses several conceptions of learning to posit metánoia as Part IVTravelling Through the DoctoratePatrick Alan Danaher123456789101112131415161718192021Layout: Pop_A5 Book ID: 480376_1_En Book ISBN: 978-3-030-23731-8Chapter No.:  Date: 26 July 2019 08:07 Page: 320/321320     Part IV: Travelling Through the Doctoratea fundamental changing of one’s mind that is often associated with the important shifts in worldview connected with doctoral study, and that is connected also with the eddies and flows of being and becoming a researcher.Joanne Doyle uses Chapter 19 to demonstrate the benefits of deploy-ing a project management approach to completing the doctoral study, thereby enhancing the likelihood of staying on track in such study. Illustrating her narrative with her own experiences and those of fel-low doctoral students, the author organises her analysis around the themes of product (planning and achieving the right deliverables), peo-ple (assembling and managing the right team) and process (setting and monitoring the right targets). Project management emerges as an effec-tive set of tools for achieving doctoral program success.Other approaches to attaining such doctoral study success are adduced in Chapter 20, written by Jessica Z. Marrington and Evita March. Their chapter builds on their critical reflection on their personal experiences and their critical incident analyses to elicit six suggested strategies clustered around the key milestones of confirmation of candi-dature and thesis submission for external examination. These strategies derive from the authors’ experientially developed knowledge and at the same time extend understandings gleaned from contemporary scholar-ship in this field.In Chapter 21, Lindy Kimmins adopts a similar combination of experiential and theoretical knowledge to arrive at different conclusions. She explains how her doctoral research emerged relatively late in her career, after many years of designing and implementing a peer- assisted learning program linking novice students with more experienced learners. The author draws vividly on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking-Glass to exemplify how traversing her the-sis in reverse worked for her.Robert Templeton elucidates in Chapter 22 the crucial connections among doctoral study, depression and the self. The author’s autoethno-graphic account of his own doctoral journey while living with depres-sion highlights an aspect of travelling through the doctorate that is familiar to many other doctoral students. His proffered strategies, centred on motivation, cognition, sociability and moods, and directed 222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657Layout: Pop_A5 Book ID: 480376_1_En Book ISBN: 978-3-030-23731-8Chapter No.:  Date: 26 July 2019 08:07 Page: 321/321Part IV: Travelling Through the Doctorate     321at recognising depression and enacting self-help, constitute a timely reminder of the continued impact of the affective domain on doctoral program success.Finally in this part and in the book, Chapter 23 is approached by Kevin Larkin to look forward by investigating the transition between doctoral student and early career academic. The author mobilises activ-ity systems theory as a robust conceptual framework, combined with the insights yielded by communities of practice, to trace his personal transformation in undertaking this transition. The chapter also presents a new conceptual model focused on a relational approach to under-standing the individual–social dichotomy evident in contemporary workplaces—including the traversing of doctoral study programs.585960616263646566676869

Part IV: travelling through the doctorate: introduction

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