Shaping Doctoral Experiences
Nurturing the Relational
Published on 19. February 2026
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-1-6669-7418-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book argues that meaningful relational connections are central to effective doctoral journeys.
In the neoliberal era, doctoral supervision is too often framed through performance metrics and rigid production timelines. This edited collection demands an urgent reimagining of doctoral relationships-one that reclaims supervision as a dynamic space for scholarly growth, creative inquiry, and research integrity. Centering relationality, this book adopts a perspective of resistance: asserting agency, amplifying voices, and highlighting the vitality of human connection in cultivating a holistic and growth-oriented doctoral journey. Bringing together insights from scholars across the globe, the book explores diverse approaches to supervision and the relational practices that shape doctoral education in profound ways. It fosters a generous and critical dialogue, inviting readers to engage with new pedagogies, ideas, and practices that can nourish the relational fabric of supervision and, in doing so, transform the contemporary doctoral experience.
In the neoliberal era, doctoral supervision is too often framed through performance metrics and rigid production timelines. This edited collection demands an urgent reimagining of doctoral relationships-one that reclaims supervision as a dynamic space for scholarly growth, creative inquiry, and research integrity. Centering relationality, this book adopts a perspective of resistance: asserting agency, amplifying voices, and highlighting the vitality of human connection in cultivating a holistic and growth-oriented doctoral journey. Bringing together insights from scholars across the globe, the book explores diverse approaches to supervision and the relational practices that shape doctoral education in profound ways. It fosters a generous and critical dialogue, inviting readers to engage with new pedagogies, ideas, and practices that can nourish the relational fabric of supervision and, in doing so, transform the contemporary doctoral experience.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
21 bw figures, 2 tables
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
619 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6669-7418-8 (9781666974188)
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Additional editions
Damien Lyons | Jane Southcott | Kanwarjeet Singh
Shaping Doctoral Experiences
Nurturing the Relational
E-Book
02/2026
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€98.99
Available for download
Damien Lyons | Jane Southcott | Kanwarjeet Singh
Shaping Doctoral Experiences
Nurturing the Relational
E-Book
02/2026
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€98.99
Available for download
Persons
Damien Lyons is Deputy Chair and Associate Professor in Literacy Education within the Department of Education at Swinburne University of Technology, AUS.
Kanwarjeet Singh is Research Fellow in the Department of Education at Swinburne University of Technology, AUS.
Jane Southcott is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, AUS.
Kanwarjeet Singh is Research Fellow in the Department of Education at Swinburne University of Technology, AUS.
Jane Southcott is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, AUS.
Content
Chapter 1: The Need for (Re)Conception and Revolution in Doctoral Supervision: An Invitation to a Relational Dance by Damien Lyons, Kanwarjeet Singh, and Jane Southcott
Chapter 2: In the Play of Agencement, Actualisation and Differentiation: Writing a Thesis as Immanent Doing by Ken Gale
Chapter 3: Spaces of Potentiality: Affirming Teacher Cultural Identity and Empowering Immigrant Teacher Agency Through an Innovative Doctoral Research Design by Mihaela Enache
Chapter 4: 'One Day I Will Sit on That Stage': The Quest of Completing a Doctorate by Amar Freya
Chapter 5: Entangled Relationality in Doctoral Education: The Power of Life Histories and Time Mapping in Supervision by Catherine Manathunga, Jing Qi, Maria Raciti, Sue Stanton, Jiao Tuxworth, John Whop, and Kathryn Gilbey
Chapter 6: Enhancing the Four Sources of Research Self-Efficacy in Doctoral Supervision by Margherita Ghezzi, Donna Pendergast, and Susanne Garvis
Chapter 7: Doing Doctorates Differently: Journeying with Human and Non-Human Others by Carol Azumah Dennis, Kathy M. Chandler, and Donata Puntil
Chapter 8: Navigating Silos in Doctoral Supervision: Walking Relational Autoethnographic Reflections by Kanwarjeet Singh, Jane Southcott, and Damien Lyons
Chapter 9: Supervision as if People Matter by Pam Denicolo, Britt-Marie Apelgren, and Marie-Louise OEsterlind
Chapter 10: Doctoral Pedagogy: Challenges and Options in the Current Environment by
Susan Carter, Deborah E. Laurs, Susan Mowbray, 'Ema Wolfgramm-Foliaki, and Claire Aitchison
Chapter 11: Learning from Dialogic Feedback: Insights from Doctoral Students by Nick Baker, Yoko Mori, Burhanudin Syaifulloh, Elke Stracke, and Vijay Kumar
Chapter 12: The Impact of Family, Work and Previous Study on the Doctoral Student Experience by Hugh Kilmister
Chapter 13: Doing Doctorates Post-Intentionally by Andrew Fiegen, Laurie Hahn Ganser, Jalen Giles, Vanessa Hoff, Alyssa Kasahara, Peng Liu-Nelson, Emma Nicosia, Jessica Silk, Melissa Surrette, Keitha-Gail Martin-Kerr, Ramon Vasquez, J. B. Mayo Jr., and Mark D. Vagle
Chapter 14: Interactions with Old Tree: Doing/Not Doing a Doctorate by Jacqui Young
Chapter 15: The Doctoral Passport: Where Should It Take You? by Andrew Goodwyn
Chapter 16: Who Ordered the Thesis? How Theorisation and Methodology Might Shape Doctoral Thinking by Nick Pratt
Chapter 17: Conceptualising Relationality Through Langar by Kanwarjeet Singh, Damien Lyons, and Jane Southcott
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Chapter 2: In the Play of Agencement, Actualisation and Differentiation: Writing a Thesis as Immanent Doing by Ken Gale
Chapter 3: Spaces of Potentiality: Affirming Teacher Cultural Identity and Empowering Immigrant Teacher Agency Through an Innovative Doctoral Research Design by Mihaela Enache
Chapter 4: 'One Day I Will Sit on That Stage': The Quest of Completing a Doctorate by Amar Freya
Chapter 5: Entangled Relationality in Doctoral Education: The Power of Life Histories and Time Mapping in Supervision by Catherine Manathunga, Jing Qi, Maria Raciti, Sue Stanton, Jiao Tuxworth, John Whop, and Kathryn Gilbey
Chapter 6: Enhancing the Four Sources of Research Self-Efficacy in Doctoral Supervision by Margherita Ghezzi, Donna Pendergast, and Susanne Garvis
Chapter 7: Doing Doctorates Differently: Journeying with Human and Non-Human Others by Carol Azumah Dennis, Kathy M. Chandler, and Donata Puntil
Chapter 8: Navigating Silos in Doctoral Supervision: Walking Relational Autoethnographic Reflections by Kanwarjeet Singh, Jane Southcott, and Damien Lyons
Chapter 9: Supervision as if People Matter by Pam Denicolo, Britt-Marie Apelgren, and Marie-Louise OEsterlind
Chapter 10: Doctoral Pedagogy: Challenges and Options in the Current Environment by
Susan Carter, Deborah E. Laurs, Susan Mowbray, 'Ema Wolfgramm-Foliaki, and Claire Aitchison
Chapter 11: Learning from Dialogic Feedback: Insights from Doctoral Students by Nick Baker, Yoko Mori, Burhanudin Syaifulloh, Elke Stracke, and Vijay Kumar
Chapter 12: The Impact of Family, Work and Previous Study on the Doctoral Student Experience by Hugh Kilmister
Chapter 13: Doing Doctorates Post-Intentionally by Andrew Fiegen, Laurie Hahn Ganser, Jalen Giles, Vanessa Hoff, Alyssa Kasahara, Peng Liu-Nelson, Emma Nicosia, Jessica Silk, Melissa Surrette, Keitha-Gail Martin-Kerr, Ramon Vasquez, J. B. Mayo Jr., and Mark D. Vagle
Chapter 14: Interactions with Old Tree: Doing/Not Doing a Doctorate by Jacqui Young
Chapter 15: The Doctoral Passport: Where Should It Take You? by Andrew Goodwyn
Chapter 16: Who Ordered the Thesis? How Theorisation and Methodology Might Shape Doctoral Thinking by Nick Pratt
Chapter 17: Conceptualising Relationality Through Langar by Kanwarjeet Singh, Damien Lyons, and Jane Southcott
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors