Graduate Research Supervision in the Developing World

Erik Blair is Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at the University of West London, UK.Danielle Watson is Senior Lecturer at the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.Shikha Raturi is an academic in School of Education, University of the South Pacific, Fiji.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSNOTES ON CONTRIBUTORSINTRODUCTION. Erik Blair, Danielle Watson and Shikha RaturiPART ONE: Negotiating unscripted supervisory terrainCHAPTER ONE: Peer learning and intercultural expectations of the PhD journey. Lynn BecklesCHAPTER TWO: It takes a village? Diversifying and contextualising the supervisory team in graduate studies. Sara AminCHAPTER THREE: Understanding policies intended to guide graduate research supervision: Institutional remit versus personal supervisory practice. Erik Blair and Danielle Watson PART TWO: Contextualising supervisory best practicesCHAPTER FOUR: Supervising graduate theses in Literary Studies at the University of the South Pacific. Matthew HaywardCHAPTER FIVE: Research supervision at The University of the West Indies: The case of two veterans. Karen Sanderson ColeCHAPTER SIX: Navigating research trajectories with supervisees in the Pacific Islands. Shikha Raturi, Dawn Gibson, Frank Thomas and Atul RaturiPART THREE: Supervisory roles, responsibilities and relationshipsCHAPTER SEVEN: Adjusting supervisory practices to suit student needs. Danielle Watson and Erik BlairCHAPTER EIGHT: Reflecting on practice and beliefs can make graduate supervision a craft. Rawatee Maharaj-SharmaCHAPTER NINE: Graduate students’ areas of perceived strengths and weaknesses in thesis writing. Jeremy Dorovolomo, Govinda Ishwar Lingam and Adrian Abishek KumarPART FOUR: Understanding supervisees' needsCHAPTER TEN: A phenomenological study of the supervisory experiences of students engaging in doctoral research: A tomb or womb experience? Beular MitchellCHAPTER ELEVEN: Acknowledging the graduate student research experience: Lessons for supervisors from the auto-ethnographic writing of thesis acknowledgements and dedications pages. Greg Burnett and Shikha RaturiCHAPTER TWELVE: Structural dimensions of doctoral supervision in regional universities: The case of the University of the South Pacific. Eberhard Weber and Andreas KopfFINAL REFLECTION. Erik Blair, Danielle Watson and Shikha Raturi