The spatiotemporal dimension of doctoral education : a way forward

Abstract
For an individual doctoral student, doctoral education happens in multiple spaces across a considerable amount of time. However, the existing literature and conceptualisations of doctoral education do not adequately address the spatiotemporal dimension related to it. By using the concept of scales, this article examines how the social action of doing doctoral studies is affected by space and time. As a mode of inquiry, I use nexus analysis, which allows the analyst to spotlight issues that routinely go unnoticed by scholars, policy-makers but also doctoral students themselves. Based on the analysis, I argue that to theorise doctoral education further, its spatiotemporal dimension has to be examined more closely and considered more seriously than is currently being done by higher education scholars.
Main Author
Format
Articles Research article
Published
2021
Series
Subjects
Publication in research information system
Publisher
Routledge
The permanent address of the publication
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202002102041Käytä tätä linkitykseen.
Review status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0307-5079
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2020.1723530
Language
English
Published in
Studies in Higher Education
Citation
License
In CopyrightOpen Access
Additional information about funding
This work was supported by the Emil Aaltonen Foundation [170007 N1, 180007 N1]; Ellen and Artturi Nyyssönen Foundation and the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Copyright© 2020 Society for Research into Higher Education

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