How to keep your doctorate on track : insights from students’ and supervisors’ experiences

Contents: 1. What we wish we had known : lessons learned to keep your doctorate on track (1) / Rebecca Loudoun, Emily A. Morrison, Mark N.K. Saunders and Keith Townsend ; PART I. GETTING INTO IT: 2. Choosing your topic : a supervisor perspective (14) / Jimmy Donaghey -- 3. 'Begin at the beginning' : identifying ideas for a PhD (22) / Graeme Dobson -- 4. 'I want to do it because I want to do it': boarding flight PhD (31) / Jemma J. Saunders -- 5. Asking "the" question (34) / Emily McDonald -- 6. Whose doctorate is it anyway? : How students and supervisors can work well together (36) / Carol Atkinson and Keith Townsend -- 7. When an orchestra misses its harmony (or how I learnt to work with my supervisors) (43) / Mai Khanh Tran -- 8. 'How much time do I get?????' (52) / Peter J. Jordan -- 9. Views from the top and views of the valley : the paths of dissertation literature reviews (55) / Maria Cseh -- 10. Critically reviewing the literature: the ghosts of literature present, past and future (65) / Linzi McKerr -- 11. Reading academic papers: visiting and re-visiting old friends (74) / Jennifer Robinson -- 12. Research philosophies and why they matter (76) / Natasha S. Mauthner -- 13. Getting your research philosophy clear (87) / Rosanna Cole -- 14. Changing philosophy (aka the only PhD is a finished PhD) (95) / Brian Harney -- 15. Designing and conducting a quantitative study : lessons learned from work, home, and school (97) / Kim Nimon -- 16. Strategies for analysing qualitative data: how to get started with making sense of all that material you've collected (107) / Anette Hallin -- 17. Discovering statistics and developing a quantitative research design (117) / Ursula Furnier -- 18. Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, how am I making sense of it all? (125) / Merrel Knox -- 19. Too much of a good thing - tradeoffs between training and completion? (135) / Keith Townsend -- PART II. GETTING ON WITH IT: 20. Critical feedback : transforming criticisms into indispensable insights (142) / Emily A. Morrison -- 21. 'They think I'm stupid' : dealing with supervisor feedback (159) / Amanda Lee -- 22. No book or resource has all the answers (167) / Rebecca Loudoun -- 23. "Ok Google ... since when did you join my supervision team?" (169) / Adam Robertson -- 24. Embracing research ethics : from cognitive walk-through to reflexive journey (171) / Rebecca Whiting -- 25. Gaining ethical approval (182) / Nora Pillard Reynolds -- 26. But I am just going home : research ethics and student safety (191) / Safa Riaz -- 27. Organizational governance : the final hurdles for research approval (193) / Amy N.B. Johnston -- 28. Wearing skirts and writing like a woman : a winding road to gaining access to research (200) / Ana Alecsandru -- 29. Gaining access to apparently easy informants (210) / Mireia Valverde -- 30. Letters from a doctoral researcher to a data collection advice column; and the responses (213) / Sharon F. Lambert -- 31. Addressing power differentials and managing egos : how to collect reliable qualitative data when researching 'elites' (228) / Chris F. Wright -- 32. Time is waiting in the wings (238) / Mark N.K. Saunders -- 33. Navigating the supervisory relationship : the case of the disappearing supervisors (248) / Vicki Webster -- 34. Managing time and maintaining focus (256) / Colin Hughes -- 35. Tightrope walking: balancing the dynamic tensions of the doctoral process (264) / Andrea Casey -- 36. Keeping your life on track : living one spoon at a time (272) / Emma Partlow -- 37. Opportunities and challenges of studying abroad (281) / Aurora Trif -- 38. Keeping life and career on track as a non-traditional doctorate student (283) / Vicki Webster -- 39. Finders, keepers, losers, weepers! A doctoral candidate's reality of changing thesis advisors (285) / Polly Watson Black -- 40. To leave or not to leave your Alma Mater (293) / Raymond Markey -- 41. My journey (303) / Gerard Ryan -- PART III. GETTING IT FINISHED AND MOVING ON: 42. Eat, sleep, redraft, repeat (308) / Ana Lobo -- 43. Challenges in writing up qualitative findings (316) / Victor Oyaro Gekara -- 44. The power to write (323) / Melika Shirmohammadi -- 45. Writing your thesis quickly and well (325) / Tara Gray -- 46. Rewriting and overcoming writer's block (336) / Grace Henry -- 47. Overcoming writer's block (and submission anxiety) (344) / Fiona Archontoulis -- 48. The final mile : avoiding and overcoming viva trip-ups (345) / Dawn C. Duke -- 49. My viva voce examination : a rollercoaster! (356) / Zeineb Djebali -- 50. Let me defend myself (or at least my thesis) (365) / Qian Yi Lee -- 51. Networking with academics to solve your PhD puzzle (367) / Adam Robertson -- 52. Are conferences worth attending as a graduate student? : Reflections and lessons from a former graduate student (377) / Tomika W. Greer -- 53. A tale of three dissertations : experiences of transforming mentored research into an article (387) / Jamie Callahan -- 54. How can you publish from your dissertation? (398) / Katherine Rosenbusch -- 55. Publishing from your thesis (408) / Dennis Nickson -- 56. Getting the first academic job (410) / Oliver S. Crocco -- 57. Beyond the doctorate : getting your first job (420) / Holly Prescott -- 58. Publications, what publications? (429) / Mark N.K. Saunders -- 59. Balancing act (431) / Polly Watson Black -- Index 433.