{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"PhD Supervisors’ Academy podcast","title":"Guiding doctoral writing: Making the process visible – experiences of the narrative inquirer","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5124,"description":"In this episode, our guest, Professor Sheila Trahar invites us to explore what narrative inquiry as an approach to knowledge creation and writing can teach us about the nourishing doctoral supervision practices and about writing itself. She offers crucial reminders about the importance of building a trusting, transparent supervisor-supervisee relationship; the relationship in which creativity is supported rather than constrained by academic conventions, deeply rooted assumptions, or individual insecurities. This conversation is particularly relevant in English as foreign language academic contexts, where finding one’s own voice often means thinking and writing in one’s second or third language. Join us as we hear about supervising experiences from such contexts and many other inspirations for (guiding) doctoral writing, including the imaginary conversation with Trinh Minh Ha…Sheila Trahar is Professor Emerita of International Higher Education at the University of Bristol.  The interdependent concepts of internationalisation of higher education and of social justice in higher education have long been the focus of her intellectual scholarship and her work is innovative for its use of narrative inquiry and autoethnography.    Latest  publications explore the relationship between internationalisation and decolonisation, including critiques of ‘whiteness’ in the Academy and the potential of Ubuntu to address racism in UK higher education.  A recent book chapter focuses on autoethnography as a methodology.   Sheila has supervised more than 50 doctoral researchers to successful conclusion, in the UK, Hong Kong, Finland and the USA.Sheila has participated in several research projects including one funded by the EU that focused on internationalisation of higher education in Israel and that involved Palestinian Arab and Israeli partners. More recently, she was a co-investigator on the ESRC/Newton Fund Southern African Rurality into Higher Education (SARiHE) project that...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/dKdiZ2K2z7jHdv7MzhnngMQ3FoAh9K-RARtclOtkJrM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lYzUz/Mzc4N2VkNTI3MTNk/ZTIzZTFhZWJiMjg4/NWMyYi5QTkc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}