Identity-trajectories Doctoral journeys from past to present to future

摘要: Despite much research into doctoral education over the past two decades, theorising field remains challenging. Recently, identity has been taken up as a conceptualising frame. Views of vary but often privilege reproductive features society, downplaying how individuals can be intentional in pursuing their desires - with doctorate one feature broader life. Further, many focus on experience only rather than situated within earlier experiences and intentions future imagined careers. This paper draws evidence from five-year programme to argue for view identity, identity-trajectory, that attends particularly individual agency, interweaving academic personal, incorporating students' pasts futures. By re-focusing attention resourcefulness independence students, identity-trajectory contributes pedagogically conceptually distinct ways framing experience.