Overview

This volume is a collection of the stories of eight international students from Southeast Asia who journeyed to undertake doctoral studies in an Australian university. Each author shares the academic and cultural challenges of living and studying in a foreign country and adjusting to different cultural and social contexts, including the drivers, motivators, personal and familial expectations of undertaking doctoral studies in a foreign land, their changing sense of self and identity on their journey, and the impact of being separated from family, friends, and familiar supports. Insights are gained into the social, cultural and familial experiences that challenge doctoral students and their family members. Contributors are: M. Maksud Ali, Elizabeth Allotta, Brent Bradford, Danwei Gao, Huan Yik Lee, Yifie Liang, Muhammad Ali Musofer, Garth Stahl, Aaron Teo and Preeti Vayada.

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Author:   Elizabeth Allotta
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   10
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.452kg
ISBN:  

9789004746909

ISBN 10:   9004746900
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   09 October 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Series Editor’s Foreword: The Doctoral Journey in Education  Brent Bradford Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notable Quotes Notes on Contributors Introduction: Insights into the Doctoral Journey from Different Southeast Asian Perspectives  Elizabeth Allotta 1 Becoming a PhD Scholar: A Collaborative and Productive Doctoral Journey  Yifiei Liang 2 Researching Masculinities as a Path to Undo Gender: An Autoethnography of a Cisgender Male Chinese Doctoral Student in Australia  Yang Zhao 3 Becoming a Decolonial Researcher: Storying My Doctoral Journey  Preeti Vayada 4 Human Capital as the Object of Doctoral Study and the Object of Desire: An Evocative Autoethnography  Muhammad Maksud Ali 5 From Karakorum Heights to Australian Shores: A Rhizomatic Doctoral Odyssey  Muhammad Ali Musofer 6 ‘Doctoral Is for Life’: Narratives of a Global South Doctoral Scholar  Huan Yik Lee 7 From China to Australia: A Three-Moment Field Analysis of the Transnational Doctoral Experience  Danwei Gao 8 The Doctoral Journey: An ‘Asian’ Australian Ex-Schoolteacher’s Critical Autoethnographic Exploration of Migration, Anti-Asian Racism and Education  Aaron Teo PART 1: Final Thoughts Contributor Thoughts upon Completion Afterword  Garth Stahl Glossary Index

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Elizabeth Allotta, Ph.D. (2023), is an educator passionate about the experiences of teachers and doctoral students working and studying in Australian contexts. She has edited another volume in this series, Different Perspectives, Different Cultures, Different Places: The Experiences of International and Domestic Students Studying in an Australian University (Brill, 2023).

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