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Their ‘life’ in your hands, or just a job? Exploring the PhD supervisor self and performance of caring work

Rogers, Chrissie (2021) Their ‘life’ in your hands, or just a job? Exploring the PhD supervisor self and performance of caring work. In: Twinley, R. and Letherby, G., eds. The Doctoral Journey as an Emotional, Embodied, Political Experience: Stories from the Field. Routledge, London. ISBN 978-0-367-35285-1. (doi:10.4324/9780429330384) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:97373)

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Abstract

To my PhD students, I am the one to metaphorically hold their hand through their research journey, I am the one who knows what buttons to push, and what to say and when to say it – perhaps. I am the one who can reduce them to tears or place them so high they reach cloud nine and burst with pride. I too can feel these range of emotions vicariously. So, what about me? I am an academic, a researcher, a teacher, a colleague, a PhD supervisor. All roles I take seriously, and there are many. The PhD student is not always my priority yet is part of my academic role in supporting the academy in, I hope, a care-full manner. Via an auto/biographic narrative I explore the self as a doctoral supervisor. Their life is in my hands, but at what point does the PhD student take control and recognise the supervisor is ‘going home’.

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.4324/9780429330384
Subjects: L Education
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Tizard
Depositing User: Sian Robertson
Date Deposited: 11 Oct 2022 09:35 UTC
Last Modified: 12 Oct 2022 08:58 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/97373 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)
Rogers, Chrissie: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7326-9260
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