TY - JOUR
T1 - Borders, paths and orientations : assembling the higher education research field as doctoral students and supervisors
AU - Peseta, Tai
AU - Kligyte, Giedre
AU - Bell, Amani
AU - Hardiman, Brittany
AU - Leadbeatter, Delyse
AU - Pizzica, Jenny
AU - Saliba, Gina
AU - Salisbury, Fiona
AU - Thomson, Kate
AU - Yucel, Robyn
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - While higher education (HE) is entrenched as a context for scholarly inquiry in Australian universities, there remains contest about it as a research field. Unlike other forms of ‘Education’, in Australia there is no undergraduate programme inducting students into HE’s key questions, scholars, and inquiry modes. For new doctoral students, learning to make an original contribution to a field described as a practice, a discipline, and context is a persistent challenge. In this paper, we ‘think with’ the concepts of borders, paths and orientations to interrogate our practices as doctoral students and supervisors in the field of HE research, under the formation #thesisthinkers. We offer multiple accounts of how #thesisthinkers invites us to confront HE as a field, and in particular, how #thesisthinkers has invigorated us to build a useable landscape of the HE research field that sustains multiple pathways for doctoral researchers, leaving behind traces for others to tread.
AB - While higher education (HE) is entrenched as a context for scholarly inquiry in Australian universities, there remains contest about it as a research field. Unlike other forms of ‘Education’, in Australia there is no undergraduate programme inducting students into HE’s key questions, scholars, and inquiry modes. For new doctoral students, learning to make an original contribution to a field described as a practice, a discipline, and context is a persistent challenge. In this paper, we ‘think with’ the concepts of borders, paths and orientations to interrogate our practices as doctoral students and supervisors in the field of HE research, under the formation #thesisthinkers. We offer multiple accounts of how #thesisthinkers invites us to confront HE as a field, and in particular, how #thesisthinkers has invigorated us to build a useable landscape of the HE research field that sustains multiple pathways for doctoral researchers, leaving behind traces for others to tread.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:59655
U2 - 10.1080/13562517.2021.1885022
DO - 10.1080/13562517.2021.1885022
M3 - Article
SN - 1356-2517
VL - 26
SP - 422
EP - 437
JO - Teaching in Higher Education
JF - Teaching in Higher Education
IS - 3
ER -