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McAlpine, Lynn; Paulson, Julia; Gonsalves, Allison; Jazvac-Martek, Marian – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
This article examines the stories of 24 social sciences doctoral students in three universities, one in Canada and two in the UK, who experienced challenging roads to completion. While their stories confirm earlier findings, they also provide insight into how students' agency and personal networks of relationships may be critical, both as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Sciences, Doctoral Programs, Higher Education
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Amundsen, Cheryl; McAlpine, Lynn – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2009
This paper explores the experiences of new graduate supervisors, individuals who have just moved as it were from one side of "the table" to the other. We describe how their learning to "do supervision" relates to their understanding of academic work and how they make sense of the transition from doctoral student, someone…
Descriptors: Supervision, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Student Teacher Supervisors