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This invaluable source book offers guidance, support and advice for those contemplating or involved in academic careers. The contributions provide rich, personal, sometimes poignant and often humorous accounts of shared and unique experiences of those in the world of academia.
Working with Doctoral Students
Working with Doctoral Students
My heroes are emerging and pushy, models of enthusiasm with new ideas and approaches. They bring new vigor, sometimes with rigor (but in its absence, that can be taught), and light to established topics. Some even bring new topics to the field.
I see part of my role as an academic as helping to produce the next generation of scholars.
The key characteristics of working with doctoral students are the diversity of relationships and the uniqueness of each dyadic pair.
In looking back on our relationships, we recognized that it was often one of our students—and not one of us—who made the first move with respect to initiating a ...