VOLUME 1(5) • 2013
INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE: COLLABORATIVE THEORISING WITH ETHICAL REFLEXIVITY AROUND DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
ABSTRACT. The papers in this special issue all engage with ethical difficulties that emerge in the lengthy, intense educational encounters between doctoral candidates and their academic supervisors. Using a process of collaborative biographical memory sharing in the first phase of the project, six e..
RATIONALITY AND COLLABORATIVE SUPERVISION, FEMINIST COLLECTIVITY AND REFLEXIVE ETHICS: BACKSTORIES FOR A COLLABORATIVE MEMORY PROJECT
ABSTRACT. In university doctoral supervision, both supervisors and students have been positioned as autonomous rational scholars within a masculinist Enlightenment discourse that has continued to shape both sole and collaborative approaches. The latter are increasingly hedged by neoliberal policies ..
EXPLORING ETHICAL DIFFICULTIES IN DOCTORAL SUPERVISION: REFLEXIVE COLLABORATIVE THEORISING AROUND MEMORY AND PRACTICE
ABSTRACT. This study explored ways that doctoral supervisors working together across distance can enhance ethically reflexive practice through collegial support. A form of collaborative biographical memory-work was used to enhance theorizing around the discursive positionings and subjectivities that..
IRRUPTIONS OF SPACE AND BODIES IN DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
ABSTRACT. Postgraduate supervision constructed within Western knowledge systems has traditionally ignored the specificities of place and space within supervision pedagogy. So too, engagement with the body in supervision spaces has been minimal in dominant policy discourses about doctoral education a..
ON SHAKY GROUND: POST EARTHQUAKE REFLECTIONS ON THE ETHICS OF ACADEMIC SUPERVISION
ABSTRACT. Doctoral supervision is positioned somewhat polyvalently in the new knowledge economy, requiring supervisors to engage, sometimes simultaneously, with an ethic of fidelity, an ethic of care, and an ethic of cultural sensitivity and respect. This multiple positioning creates particular ethi..
WHEN DOCTORAL STUDENTS STRUGGLE TO MAKE PROGRESS: SUPERVISORS’ REFLEXIVE EXPLORATION OF ETHICAL CHALLENGES
ABSTRACT. There are ethical difficulties for supervisors when their doctoral student does not seem to be making progress and may be advised to withdraw from study. The topic emerged in a reflexive online discussion as part of the second phase of a participatory research project on ethical theorizing..
COLLABORATING WITHOUT PARTICIPATION: NOMADIC ETHICS AND RESISTANCES IN THE SINGULARITIES OF NORMATIVE ACADEMIC PRACTICE
ABSTRACT. This paper presents a reflexive account of collaboration in the context of not participating in the project that energized this special issue. Having begun producing work for collective biographies of academic practice, I arrive here through contributions more akin to the usual practices o..
ETHICS IN ENTANGLEMENT
ABSTRACT. Using the papers in the special issue as a provocation for her own work, the author addresses three key issues: (1) the topic of the research study described in the issue, the relation of university supervisor and doctoral advisee; (2) the research methodology used in the study, collaborat..