A Survival Kit for Doctoral Students and Their Supervisors

"I see this text as different in the sense of looking at the audience, the process, and the adviser relationship from a much more positive perspective. This text takes a more personal, softer look at the dissertation process and serves more to inspire and motivate rather than instill fear."

• Chapter 1: Theoretical Basis of the BookAn Apprenticeship PerspectiveWhy Apprenticeship?Things Elites Can Teach UsWhat Is Apprenticeship In Research And What Can Be Learn From It?The PhD Endeavour as a JourneyA Pedagogy of DoingMoving Away From Pure LearningGood Advice for the PhD StudentGood Advice for the SupervisorConclusionChapter 2: Matching Student and Research CommunitySuccessful and Unsuccessful MatchingWhy Research Talent Is Relationally Defined and AchievedRelational TalentsFinding the Right MatchWhat Is Needed To Find The Match?MismatchFinishing On Time?Why Matching Can Be DifficultGood Advice for the PhD StudentGood Advice for the SupervisorConclusionChapter 3: Originality and ContributionMaking an ImpactWe Have To Work It Out Ourselves – But How?Developing VoiceAn Experiment of DisarmamentDismantling Pretentious Scientific LanguageComplying and AdjustmentQuestioning the Research QuestionGood Advice for the PhD StudentGood Advice for the SupervisorConclusionChapter 4: Making the Most of ObstaclesResearch as a Creative EndeavorHow Can I Contribute and Do Creative Research?Data on Deviations and Research in Everyday LifeHow Can We Stumble Creatively?Absorption and DeadlinesForced IncubationApprenticeships and Quick LearningThe McDonaldisation of ResearchGood Advice for the PhD StudentGood Advice for the SupervisorConclusionChapter 5: Peers and Masters Are EverywhereDistributed MastersApprenticeship WritingWriting and Identity Formation in Peer GroupsWriting Throughout the JourneyNetworksWriting GroupsDo I Have The Time … And The Courage?Life Itself Is a MasterBe a Master YourselfGood Advice for the PhD StudentGood Advice for the SupervisorConclusionChapter 6: Doing SupervisionSupervision as Process and ProductionCo-Authorship as a Pedagogic PracticeThe Co-Author StudyInviting In—Unconditionally AcceptingIdea Testing and Getting the Student to WorkTheoretical FramingFocused Asking For Advice and Making Structural AdjustmentsFine Tuning and Some DeletionsSharing CompletionExtending the Radius of the Research CommunityA Pedagogy of DoingGood Advice for the PhD StudentGood Advice for the SupervisorConclusionChapter 7: Feedback – Part of Making It WorkA Range Of OptionsA Good Writer Is Not Necessarily a Good Writing TeacherFeed-Back from an Apprenticeship PerspectiveFormative ApprenticeshipWriting for ‘Real’ and ‘Blind’ ReviewersThe Necessity of Untidy TextsThe Circularity of Knowing‘People Think by Acting’Retrospective Preparation?Learning from Giving FeedbackGood Advice for the PhD StudentGood Advice for the SupervisorConclusionChapter 8: ‘Get a Life’ or Simply ‘Live Your Life’Putting an End to Uncertainty?Moving Fast or Learning to Live a Researcher’s Life?In Search Of a Researcher IdentityAlways In the MiddleIt Is Good To Be Part of SomethingThere Is Always Work To DoAlways Heading Somewhere‘Let’s Start Before We’re Ready’Stepping Stones for a Future CareerGood Advice for the PhD StudentGood Advice for the SupervisorConclusion