Doctoral Borderlands: an exploration of doctoral education and its possible futures

Rao, Namrata and Hosein, Anesa and Raaper, Rille and Rolf, Harry and Gravett, Karen and Smith, Karen and Harrison, Neil and Carter, Susan (2022) Doctoral Borderlands: an exploration of doctoral education and its possible futures. SRHE News Blog.

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Abstract

At the SRHE conference 2021, we (Karen S, Neil and Susan) facilitated a symposium in two parts on Doctoral Borderlands. Together, the parts gave a guided tour through doctoral borderlands, the metaphor underpinning the Teaching in Higher Education Special Issue: ‘Working in the borderlands: Critical perspectives on doctoral education’ (Carter, Smith & Harrison, 2021). The reference to borderlands, drawing from Gloria Anzaldúa’s (1987) work, emphasised the transitionary and liminal nature of doctoral education, the crossings into the unknown, and the emergence or surfacing of (multiple) identities. In the symposium, ten authors shared overviews of seven of the Special Issue articles as starting points for open discussion around doctoral education and its future possibilities.
This blog post picks up three doctoral borderland trajectories taken by some of the SRHE symposium presenters. First, Karen Gravett starts by looking at how the form of the doctorate is changing and its impact on perceptions of the doctoral journey. Then Namrata Rao, Anesa Hosein and Rille Raaper discuss being, becoming and belonging, particularly in the context of precarity. After this, Harry Rolf considers power in doctoral education, from the starting point of doctoral publishing.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Doctoral Students; Borderlands; Precarity;
Faculty / Department:	Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Education
Depositing User:	Namrata Rao
Date Deposited:	06 Jul 2022 13:51
Last Modified:	12 Nov 2024 11:59
URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3577

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