Doctoral Writing

Dr. Cally Guerin is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. Dr. Guerin has worked in researcher education, running workshops and short courses for research students and supervising Ph.D. candidates at the School of Education. Her active involvement in doctoral education includes serving on the organizing committees of key conferences in the field, Quality in Postgraduate Research (QPR) and the International Doctoral Education Research Network (IDERN). She is a founding co-editor of the DoctoralWriting blog and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (now known as Advance HE). Her research interests include research writing, academic identities, academic mobility and internationalization, academic integrity, the academic workforce, and doctoral education.  

  

Dr. Claire Aitchison is a Senior Lecturer working as an academic developer at the Teaching Innovation Unit, University of South Australia. At Western Sydney University, she provided individual and writing group support for researcher scholars, a context in which she researched doctoral and supervisor writing practices and established on-campus and online writing programmes. Her interests include pedagogies for supporting doctoral writing and publication, emotions in candidature, external non-traditional support for doctoral candidates, and social media spaces for doctoral writing and support. As co-founder and contributor to the DoctoralWriting blog, she regularly rehearses her supervisory practices and delights in the collegiality of social learning networks.