Doctoral Experience

Sara Delamont is Reader in Sociology at Cardiff University. She has published extensively on social interaction in schools and classrooms, womens education, women intellectuals, and the anthropology of contemporary Europe.Paul Atkinson is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University. His research and publications include work on medical knowledge, genetic science and educational knowledge.Odette Parry is Research Fellow in the Research Unit in Health and Behavioural Change at the University of Edinburgh. She has extensive research experience in a number of fields including health and illness, the body, and education in the UK and the Caribbean.

• 1.Cultures of the academy 2.Researching our peers 3.The nature of the quest 4. The appliance of science 5.Fieldwork 6.Modelling realities 7.Genealogies and generations 8.Supervisor's narratives 9.Pedagogic Continuities 10.Disciplines and the doctorate, Appendix 1: Two research projects Appendix 2: The policy Context References Index