The Doctoral Journey as an Emotional, Embodied, Political Experience

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<P><EM>The Doctoral Journey as an Emotional, Embodied, Political Experience</EM> is the first text of its kind to capture stories of involvement in doctoral journeys from students, supervisors, and examiners. Drawing from experiences across a variety of disciplines in the social sciences, medical sciences, education and the humanities, these stories share a keenness to demonstrate the ways in which this journey is emotional (rather than detached), embodied (rather than separated), and political (rather than having no relationship to politics). </P><P></P><P>The journey metaphor is often adopted to describe and explore the PhD process. However, this journey is usually only seen from the perspective of the doctoral candidate. This implies that it is only the student that learns, develops, and reflects. This is clearly not always (maybe never) the case. The suggestion that the candidate ''learns'' whilst the supervisors ''teach'' harks back to traditional masculinist educational approache