Friend or Foe: the complexities of being an academic and a doctoral student in the same institution

Lynn Clouder; Jennie  Billot; Virginia King; Jan  Smith

doi:10.1080/03075079.2019.1643307

Friend or Foe: the complexities of being an academic and a doctoral student in the same institution

Lynn Clouder, Jennie Billot, Virginia King, Jan Smith

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Abstract

A growing expectation that academic staff in higher education institutions (HEIs) will be qualified to doctoral level can mean that doctoral study must be juggled alongside administration, teaching, and academic duties. Many academics study in their own institutions. We wished to explore their perspectives on i) how the two roles, of being an academic as well as a doctoral candidate, interact or not and ii) the influences and resources at play in navigating the processes. The qualitative study explored staff experiences in two HEIs in the United Kingdom and one in New Zealand. Using Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) as a theoretical framework, we identified the contradictions within and between academic life and doctoral candidature activity systems. However, we focus on the tools and rules that frame daily academic life and doctoral study, and suggest remodelling systems to be kinder to academic staff brave enough to engage in doctoral study.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1961-1972
Number of pages	12
Journal	Studies in Higher Education
Volume	45
Issue number	9
Early online date	20 Jul 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2019.1643307
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2020

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Studies in Higher Education on 20/07/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03075079.2019.1643307]

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Cultural Historical Activity Theory
academic roles
doctoral arrangements
doctoral practices
dual-status academics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Education

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Friend or Foe: the complexities of being an academic and a doctoral student in the same institution

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