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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.

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Author:   Damien Lyons ,  Jane Southcott (Monash University, Australia) ,  Kanwarjeet Singh
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:  

9781666974188

ISBN 10:   1666974188
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   19 February 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Österlind 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

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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.

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