Doctoral Research Supervision, Pedagogy and the PhD: Forged in Fire?

The book brings together for the first time a range of integrated essays produced out of a program of research and scholarship designed to better understand advanced-level research supervision as pedagogy.

Bill Green (PhD) is Emeritus Professor of Education at Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia. His work is addressed to curriculum inquiry and literacy studies, with a particular focus on curriculum theory and English teaching. His recent publications include Engaging Curriculum: Bridging the Curriculum Theory and English Education Divide (2018) and he co-edited Curriculum Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World: Transnational Perspectives in Curriculum Inquiry (2020) and Rethinking L1 Education in a Global Era: Understanding the (Post-)National L1 Subjects in New and Difficult Times (2021).

Catherine Manathunga (PhD) is a Professor of Education Research and historian at the University of the Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia. She brings an interdisciplinary historical, sociological, and cultural studies perspective to higher education research. She has research projects on First Nations and transcultural doctoral education and the history of universities. Her publications include Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision: Reimagining Time, Place, and Knowledge (2014).

Alison Lee (PhD) was Professor of Education at the University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia. She researched and published extensively in higher and professional education, with a particular focus on doctoral education. Her co-edited books included Reshaping Doctoral Education (2012), Publishing Pedagogies for the Doctorate and Beyond (2010) and Changing Practices of Doctoral Education (2009). She died in 2012.