ABSTRACT Aim/Purpose This paper investigates the role of social support in the PhD.
Despite universities' efforts to provide a collegial PhD experience, candidates report …

Purpose This paper aims to examine the effectiveness of PhD support groups as an
intervention that improves mental well-being and increases confidence in timely PhD …

The post-doctoral phase is characterized by a high level of competition and even a risk of
unemployment due to the increasing number of PhDs. This study explores the function of …

Social support from the supervisor and the researcher community has been identified as one
of the determinants for successful completion of doctoral studies. Still surprisingly little is …

This study investigated the role of social support in the successful completion of a doctoral
degree. Thirty-one participants with earned doctoral degrees completed an open-ended …

Doctoral work is often characterised as lonely and isolating (Holbrook et al. 2014). This
paper explores how collaboration with peers and other professionals supports the doctoral …

This paper explores doctoral students' experiences of their scholarly communities in terms of
socio-psychological well-being. Further, the study examines how experiences were related …

This dissertation focused on exploring doctoral students conceptions of the scholarly
community and research, and further, on analysing the relation between these conceptions …

Purpose This paper aims to explore the support experiences of 381 PhD students within the
humanities and social sciences from three research-intensive universities in Denmark (n …

This study extends the doctoral education literature by examining how social support and
social identification, as they apply to peers, supervisors, and the academic community, are …