Doctoral Study and Getting Published features a collection of early career research narratives that focuses on researcher development and education. There is an emphasis on the often pressurised process of publishing during or after a doctorate through an ecological perspective.
Pressure to share research findings in the form of academic publications has meant that doctoral candidates are encouraged to develop skills that will help them engage with the competitive publication market.
Doctoral Study and Getting Published features a collection of early career research narratives that focuses on researcher development and education. There is an emphasis on the often pressurised process of publishing during or after a doctorate through an ecological perspective. The book brings together a diverse but coherent set of voices, reflections and advice from early-career researchers regarding publication experiences. Issues explored include academic identity, collaboration (including include student-supervisor relationships, co-authorship and working in research groups), dynamics of larger scholarly communities and engaging with publishers and reviewer feedback.
The book is intended as a supplementary resource for use by doctoral students and early career researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences, whether they are enrolled in academic writing programmes or working individually to develop their authorial identity.
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1. Doctoral study and getting published: Narrative and
ecological perspectives; Richard Fay and Achilleas Kostoulas
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2. Local and global challenges for early career publishing; Jane
Andrews
Part A. Finding or constructing a researcher identity
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3. The interacting selves in early career publishing and beyond: The
search for a researcher identity; Magdalena De Stefani
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4. Where are you from?; Eljee Javier
Commentary to Part A; Richard Fay and Achilleas Kostoulas
Part B. The experience of writing
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5. On being published: A reflection on trajectories of (published)
texts and researcher imaginaries; Jessica Bradley
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6. A garden of forking PhD paths; Edd Aspbury-Miyanishi
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7. Publish, not perish: Developing a purposeful approach to doctoral
publications; Magdalena Rostron
Commentary to Part B; Richard Fay and Achilleas Kostoulas
Part C. Engaging with co-authors and critical peers
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8. Writing and publishing collaboratively: A safe scaffold for an
ECR; Siti Masrifatul Fitriyah
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9. The benefits of being shaped as an early career researcher;
Dylan Williams
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10. My successful and less successful publication experiences;
Sutraphorn Tantiniranat
Commentary to Part C; Richard Fay and Achilleas Kostoulas
Part D. Building or joining an academic community
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11. Developing researcherhood and professional belonging through
publication; Zhuo Min Huang
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12. Building your LOOP in navigating an academic community; Rui He
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13. How practice shapes research and a sense of community in the
field of English for Academic Purposes; Paul Breen
Commentary to Part D; Richard Fay and Achilleas Kostoulas
Part E. Engaging with publishers
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14. Dilemmas and challenges in publication and revision of research
articles as an early career researcher; Duygu Candarli
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15. Seeking constructive rejections: A reflection on my publication
strategies during the PhD; Felix Kwihangana
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16. It is not easy to learn about your academic self through the eyes
of reviewers; Mira Bekar
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17. Its not about me; Paul Vincent Smith
Commentary to Part E; Richard Fay and Achilleas Kostoulas
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18. Concluding Comments; Mira Bekar
Richard Fay is a Critical Applied Linguist and Senior Lecturer in Education (TESOL and Intercultural Education) at The University of Manchester (UK). He founded and co-ordinates the LANTERN doctoral research group and he was awarded Teacher of the Year in 2012 for his leadership of this doctoral community. His academic and professional practice falls within the following domains: teacher education for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), researcher education, intercultural communication/education, and ethnomusicology.
Achilleas Kostoulas is an Applied Linguist at the University of Thessaly (Greece). His academic and professional background is in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. He trained as an English language teacher at the University of Athens and completed his postgraduate and doctoral studies in language education at the University of Manchester. He is the author of several monographs and edited collections focusing on diverse aspects of language teaching and language teacher education.
