"This is a great book for supervisors of students pursuing ethnographic studies, but also for people carrying out such studies." Hugh Busher, British Educational Research Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3. June 2004.

• Introduction - the doctoral experience, G. Walford; on the doctoral endeavour, G. Bhatti; close encounters of the third kind - researching children's sexual cultures in the primary school, E. Renold; learning on the job - micropolitics and identity work in teacher/doctoral student research, S. Benjamin; jet-setting postgrad - ethnographic research in two countries, F. Vogt; it's a white knuckle ride - reflections from the PhD experience, L. Pugsley; Method in the messiness - experiencing the ethnographic PhD process, G. Troman; pressures, problems and the PhD process - tales from the "training ground", A. Parker; the novice researcher - expectation meets reality, K. Johannesen Brock; alone in a crowd or going native? a doctoral student's experience, G. O'Toole; the influences of personal biography on the doctoral research process, C. Hudson; researching the ineffable - that which cannot be expressed in words, J. Lilly.

"This is a great book for supervisors of students pursuing ethnographic studies, but also for people carrying out such studies." Hugh Busher, British Educational Research Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3. June 2004.

• Introduction - the doctoral experience, G. Walford; on the doctoral endeavour, G. Bhatti; close encounters of the third kind - researching children's sexual cultures in the primary school, E. Renold; learning on the job - micropolitics and identity work in teacher/doctoral student research, S. Benjamin; jet-setting postgrad - ethnographic research in two countries, F. Vogt; it's a white knuckle ride - reflections from the PhD experience, L. Pugsley; Method in the messiness - experiencing the ethnographic PhD process, G. Troman; pressures, problems and the PhD process - tales from the "training ground", A. Parker; the novice researcher - expectation meets reality, K. Johannesen Brock; alone in a crowd or going native? a doctoral student's experience, G. O'Toole; the influences of personal biography on the doctoral research process, C. Hudson; researching the ineffable - that which cannot be expressed in words, J. Lilly.