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Presenting a range of voices and first-hand experiences, this edited collection provides real-world advice, tips and tricks to help students embarking on postgraduate study get through the thesis journey. Edited by Marilyn Waring and Kate Kearins, the 23 essays which make up Thesis Survivor Stories seek to demystify the ups and downs of postgraduate life and the PhD research process.
1. Introduction – Marilyn Waring and Kate Kearins
2. The Nine Myths of the Doctorate: A Beautiful Conspiracy – Nicky Black
3. Maintaining Momentum to Publish and Finish in Three Years (Almost) – Belinda Luke
4. Project PhD in Midlife – Karen Webster
5. Fencing Off the Black Hole – Julienne Molineaux
6. Navigating the Competing Worlds and Lived Realities of a PhD Candidate – Michelle Schaaf
7. Reflexivity – On Getting There – Ruth Choudharey
8. Managing a Project, Becoming Obsessed, and Getting Through – Paul Wells
9. The Importance of Sharing Experiences When Completing a PhD: Naku te rourou, nau te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi – Riri Ellis
10. Optimising Cultural Capital to Accomplish a PhD – Vivien Wei Verheijen
11. Thesis Survival – Life Interruptions, Extensive Consulting, and Crafting the End Product – Carol Peters
12. PhD – Permanent Hair Damage? Permanent Head Damage? – Hishamuddin (Sam) Mohd Hashim
13. Bachelors, Masters, PhD: Continuous Study and its Advantages and Disadvantages – Helen Tregidga
14. Being a Student – Again – Christine Byrch
15. Talanoa in the Cook Islands – Repeta Puna
16. Postgraduate Study in my Second Language – Chanthana (Peddy) Wech-O-sotsakda
17. Finishing Bethli’s Thesis – Marilyn Waring
18. Supervision and Super/vision: Reflections on the Supervision
Experience – Adreanne Ormond
19. Experiences Gaining Ethics Approval and Practising Ethical Inquiry – Jennifer Marie Graham Tucker
20. Truth About Researching Truth – Lucia Davis, Undariya Tumursukh and Quentin Allan
21. Research With Other Cultures – Karen Webster
22. Writing an Autobiographical Thesis: Or Using the I-Eye in Thesis Writing – Jill Worrall
23. Changing Supervisor; Changing Methodology – Sue Bradford
24. A Rite of Passage – The Oral Examination – Quentin Allan