While writing in doctoral education is increasingly visible as a focus for research and pedagogy, what remains less visible is the role of reading in the doctoral journey. This paper draws on data from two parallel research programmes in which doctoral student day-to-day experience was documented longitudinally, initially in the social sciences…

This paper explores the experiences of new graduate supervisors, individuals who have just moved as it were from one side of "the table" to the other. We describe how their learning to "do supervision" relates to their understanding of academic work and how they make sense of the transition from doctoral student, someone supervised, to someone…

The study reported here, one part of a larger study on doctoral education, describes a pilot study that used Activity Theory to shape a methodological tool for better understanding the tensions inherent in the doctoral experience. As doctoral students may function within a range of activity systems, we designed data collection protocols based on…

Describes a five-year Canadian-Indonesian faculty development project that involved a variety of activities and resulted in sustainable faculty development, namely the creation of faculty development centers in two post-secondary institutions. Discusses the mentor-mentee relationship, developing expertise, understanding multiple cultural contexts,…