Traversing the Doctorate: Reflections and Strategies from Students, Supervisors and Administrators

Chapter 1. Traversing the Doctorate: Situating scholarship and identifying issues; Tanya M. Machin, Marc Clarà and Patrick Alan Danaher.- Chapter 2. Conceptual review of digital competences for doctoral supervision; Guillermo Bautista Pérez and Anna Escofet.- Chapter 3. Confirmation of candidature: An autoethnographic reflection from the dual identities of student and research administrator; Cristy Bartlett and Douglas Eacersall.- Chapter 4. Communicating 'success' with research students: Institutional responsibilities in encouraging a culture of research higher degree completions; Mark Emmerson.- Chapter 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 and Kirsti Lonka.- Chapter 6. Engineering the doctorate: Designing a highway to traverse; Jay Somasundaram and Prue Howard.- Chapter 7. Research on doctoral supervision: What we have learnt in the last 10 years; Gabriela González-Ocampo and Montserrat Castelló.- Chapter 8. Doctoral supervision as a relational endeavour: A pedagogical commitment and reciprocal growth; Nona Press, Dolene Rossi, Coralie Graham and Patrick Alan Danaher.- Chapter 9. Shifting players: Supervision changes during the PhD journey; Jennifer Tatebe.- Chapter 10. Writing regularly as a thesis-completion strategy; Brian Martin.- Chapter 11. Tiptoeing around the institution? Doctoral supervision in the knowledge economy; Atholl Murray and Cecily Jensen-Clayton.- Chapter 12. Creating a community of practice in a practice-led PhD; Sarah Peters and Janet McDonald.- Chapter 13. Looking for, learning from and finally becoming the voice of experience: A communities of practice perspective on the doctoral journey; Aastha Malhotra.- Chapter 14. Supervising at a distance: The transformation of assistance during a doctoral journey across different continents; Bernadita Justiniano, Teresa Mauri and Marc Clarà.- Chapter 15. Experiencing the journey together: The role of social support during the doctorate; Tanya M. Machin and Renée L. Parsons-Smith.- Chapter 16. You're my anchor and my sail: A metaphor for a successful supervisor/supervisee relationship; Jennifer Donovan.- Chapter 17. The effects of unsupportive supervision on doctorate completions; Robert Templeton.- Chapter 18. A transforming researcher: how did I get here? The life of a first-year student undertaking the Doctor of Education; Clayton Lawrence.- Chapter 19. Staying on track: A targeted approach to managing the PhD jourey; Joanne Doyle.- Chapter 20. Strategies for PhD completion: A critical reflection by completed PhD candidates; Jessica Z. Marrington and Evita March.- Chapter 21. Traversing through reversing: using doctoral studies to juxtapose research with practice; Lindy Kimmins.- Chapter 22. Depression, doctorates and self; Robert Templeton.- Chapter 23. Exploring the transition between doctoral student and early career academic: A new perspective on activity systems; Kevin Larkin.