‘I won’t be squeezed into someone else’s frame’: stories of supervisor selection
Using a collection of stories from a group of women who belong to a PhD support group, this article tracks the issue of choosing a supervisor. These women are all academics and therefore had some claim to an “insider” status but as novice researchers they were also “outsiders”. Their discussions ar...
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Using a collection of stories from a group of women who belong to a PhD support group, this article tracks the issue of choosing a supervisor. These women are all academics and therefore had some claim to an “insider” status but as novice researchers they were also “outsiders”. Their discussions around how and why they chose their supervisors highlight issues often underplayed or ignored in textbooks on postgraduate supervision. In particular, this article examines issues of knowledge, embodied subjectivity and power by following three questions that arise from the data: whose knowing is important; who should I be, and whose PhD is it?
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| spelling | doaj.art-f1ba548541594eb7a4a61dfebb38bb172024-03-07T11:12:08ZengUniversity of the Free StateActa Academica0587-24052415-04792010-01-011‘I won’t be squeezed into someone else’s frame’: stories of supervisor selectionLiz Harrison0Sioux McKenna1Ruth Searle2Durban University of TechnologyRhodes UniversityUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal Using a collection of stories from a group of women who belong to a PhD support group, this article tracks the issue of choosing a supervisor. These women are all academics and therefore had some claim to an “insider” status but as novice researchers they were also “outsiders”. Their discussions around how and why they chose their supervisors highlight issues often underplayed or ignored in textbooks on postgraduate supervision. In particular, this article examines issues of knowledge, embodied subjectivity and power by following three questions that arise from the data: whose knowing is important; who should I be, and whose PhD is it? https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/aa/article/view/1282 |
| spellingShingle | Liz Harrison Sioux McKenna Ruth Searle ‘I won’t be squeezed into someone else’s frame’: stories of supervisor selection Acta Academica |
| title | ‘I won’t be squeezed into someone else’s frame’: stories of supervisor selection |
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