Objective To understand how researchers experience working in academia and the effects
these experiences have on their mental health and well-being, through synthesizing …

PhD candidates, like all students, learn through engaging with feedback. However, there is
limited understanding of how feedback strategies support doctoral candidates. This …

This article investigates patterns of systematic metaphors used to characterize various
aspects of the doctoral education period, based on analysis of dissertation …

Aim/Purpose The study set out to understand the challenges doctoral students experience at
different systemic levels of doctoral education through the perspective of ethical principles …

Across the world, many university-based early career researchers (ECRs) are experiencing
an unprecedented intensification of research expectations on transition from doctoral …

The study of learning/research engagement in doctoral education has aroused increasing
interest among education researchers, given its influence on PhD candidates' experiences …

Purpose This article focuses on understanding the evolution of the academic identity of a
university academic within the contemporary university context, highlighting the significant …

This multi-year mixed-method research explores the first-year online doctoral students'
emotional experiences. Forty-eight students who embarked on a fully online doctoral …

We rarely acknowledge the achievements of doctoral candidates who fought with all they
had but still lost the battle and dropped out–we know so little about what becomes of them …

The aim of the study was to investigate the experiences of Chinese doctoral students at a
Spanish university, aiming to enhance understanding of transcultural experiences …