Gatecrashing the Oasis? A Joint Doctoral Dissertation Play

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ID2385403
AutoresK Gale (0000-0003-1296-9647, University of Plymouth), Jane Speedy (0000-0003-3166-8188, University of Bristol), J Wyatt (0000-0002-5549-1586, University of Oxford)
Ano2010
Volume16
Fascículo1
Páginas21-28
Data de publicação2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800409349758
OpenAlexW2029410475
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas5

This article explores the institutional and individual struggles surrounding the submission for examination of a jointly authored doctoral dissertation at a U.K. civic university. Two of the article's authors (Gale and Wyatt) were the dissertation's authors, and Speedy, the article's third author, is their supervisor. Joint doctoral dissertations are rare and the dissertation was unique in this department's history. The article is written as play script, which allows for different points of view to be offered and juxtaposed and for key issues to emerge and be explored. These issues include the institutional and individual impact of challenging what counts as original doctoral scholarship, the supervision relationship, and aspects of the experience of the completion of a doctorate. With a nod to the Deleuzian concept of the nomad, a significant theoretical component of the joint dissertation, the play works with the metaphor of nomadic journeying across desert terrain toward the "oasis" of membership of the academy as an image of the doctoral process. The play begins as the dissertation's two authors hand in their dissertation for examination, and ends on graduation day, with its primary focus being the eleven weeks between submission and the viva voce examination

Doctoral dissertation · Graduation (instrument · Higher education · Linguistics · Metaphor · Pedagogy · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Law · Psychology · Reflective Practices in Education