Feeling Like a Researcher: Experiences of Early Doctoral Students in Australia

Autor/in	Mantai, Lilia
Titel	Feeling Like a Researcher: Experiences of Early Doctoral Students in Australia
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 42 (2017) 4, S.636-650 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2015.1067603
Schlagwörter	Doctoral Programs; Graduate Students; Student Attitudes; Researchers; Informal Education; Interviews; Validity; Metropolitan Areas; Foreign Countries; Social Support Groups; Qualitative Research; Student Research; Professional Identity; Educational Experience; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Doktorandenprogramm; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Schülerverhalten; Researcher; Forscher; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Gültigkeit; Ballungsraum; Ausland; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Qualitative Forschung; Studentenforschung; Bildungserfahrung; Australien
Abstract	Becoming a researcher is one of the roads travelled in the emotional, social, and intellectual process of PhD journeys. As such, developing a researcher identity during doctoral study is a social undertaking. This paper explores instances and practices where doctoral students identify as becoming researchers. Based on interviews with 30 PhD students from two Australian metropolitan universities, this paper presents students' experiences of moments when they feel like researchers. The paper finds identification as a researcher occurs early on in the PhD, and such instances are underpinned by external and internal validation of the student as a researcher. Validation is gained "through research outputs" ("mainly publications"), "doing research," and "talking about research." Such experiences are often mundane, occur daily, and constitute personal, social, informal, and formal learning opportunities for researcher development. Supervisors are largely absent as students draw on multiple individuals on and off campus in assuming a researcher identity. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01