Doctoral Research Supervision, Pedagogy and the PhD (Routledge Research in Higher Education)

The book brings together for the first time a range of integrated essays produced out of a programme of research and scholarship designed to better understand advanced-level research supervision as pedagogy.

Doctoral Research Supervision, Pedagogy and the PhD questions the traditions of how doctoral work is accomplished, in the context of the changing role of research and universities in contemporary societies. Focused on research supervision and the pedagogies of doctoral work, the book brings together for the first time a range of integrated essays produced out of a programme of research and scholarship designed to better understand advanced-level research supervision as pedagogy. Those original ground-breaking chapters are framed by new work, extending the overall argument, reflecting on the emergence and development of doctoral education research, and evaluating the state of the field today.

This book is of interest to scholars and postgraduate researchers in higher education, postgraduate and doctoral education, supervision and the philosophy and theory of higher education.

Bill Green (PhD) is Emeritus Professor of Education at Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia. His work is addressed to curriculum inquiry and literacy studies, with a particular focus on curriculum theory and English teaching. His recent publications include Engaging Curriculum: Bridging the Curriculum Theory and English Education Divide (2018) and he co-edited Curriculum Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World: Transnational Perspectives in Curriculum Inquiry (2020) and Rethinking L1 Education in a Global Era: Understanding the (Post-)National L1 Subjects in New and Difficult Times (2021).

Catherine Manathunga (PhD) is a Professor of Education Research and historian at the University of the Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia. She brings an interdisciplinary historical, sociological, and cultural studies perspective to higher education research. She has research projects on First Nations and transcultural doctoral education and the history of universities. Her publications include Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision: Reimagining Time, Place, and Knowledge (2014).

Alison Lee (PhD) was Professor of Education at the University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia. She researched and published extensively in higher and professional education, with a particular focus on doctoral education. Her co-edited books included Reshaping Doctoral Education (2012), Publishing Pedagogies for the Doctorate and Beyond (2010) and Changing Practices of Doctoral Education (2009). She died in 2012.