A new mobilities approach to re-examining the doctoral journey
Mobility and fixity in the borderlands space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21691307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebekah Smith McGloin (0000-0001-9074-4596, Doctoral School, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 370-386 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Teaching in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-2517 • E-ISSN: 1470-1294 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13562517.2021.1898364 |
| OpenAlex | W3138526884 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 28 |
This paper explores doctoral candidates’ experiences of making progress through the doctoral space. We engage concepts associated with the ‘new mobilities’ paradigm (Urry, J. 2007. Mobilities. Cambridge: Polity Press) to provide insight into the candidate experience of the doctoral journey; exploring specifically the interplay between the fixed structure provided by institutional-level progression frameworks that are commonly implemented by UK universities to measure ‘timely progress’ across disciplines and the borderlands space that enables and facilitates intellectual freedom, creativity, becoming and adventure. Drawing on notions of ‘moorings’, ‘home on the move’, ‘connectivity and transit spaces’ and ‘rhizomic thinking’ we analyse narrative data generated through the reflective diaries of doctoral candidates at a modern university in the English Midlands to offer new insight into how universities can provide better doctoral education, that supports: candidates to make a contribution to knowledge; protects well-being; and facilitates timely completion
Adventure · Creativity · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Higher education · Mobilities · Narrative · Political science · Polity · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Data Analysis and Archiving · Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions · Engineering · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |