“The best drunk decision of my life” : a nexus analysis of doctoral education
This dissertation explores doctoral education as a form of social action. The qualitative mode of inquiry guiding both the theoretical and methodological choices of this work is nexus analysis. In the context of this work, doctoral education is a nexus where different social actors (such as doctoral researchers, supervisors, and funding agencies), places (such as seminar rooms, universities, conference venues), and discourses (such as the one of internationalisation) come together. For this reason, they should also be examined together, rather than as individual facets.
To conduct the analysis, I generated data by doing insider ethnography in two distinct settings over the course of eighteen months: CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland/France) and CALS (the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland). The data consists of recorded and transcribed interviews, fieldwork notes and photographs, survey data, documents, and reports. In both settings, I followed three practical stages of nexus analysis: engaging, navigating, and finally changing the nexus of practice.
Based on the comprehensive analysis process, I argue that nexus analysis offers a promising holistic, inductive mode of inquiry to study doctoral education from a perspective that is currently underrepresented in research on doctoral education. It enables the researcher to become an activist with powerful analytical tools, which can be used to facilitate change in the studied nexus of practice. Nexus analysis also allows individual doctoral researchers to approach doctoral education in a bottom-up manner, rather than a top-down one, challenging the existing power relationships, gatekeeping, and decision-making practices. Therefore, I suggest that the social actors involved in doctoral education ought to critically assess whether the decisions regarding doctoral education and specific doctoral practices are made by those who have experience and/or research-based knowledge on doctoral education, instead of those who have neither. In this way, challenges of contemporary doctoral education could be addressed more effectively.
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- Artikkeli: Aarnikoivu, M., & Saarinen, T. (2020). “Kuuluuko täältä, kuuluuko nyt?”: tohtoriopiskelijoiden verkkovälitteisen seminaaritoiminnan ongelmatilanteiden neksusanalyysi. Puhe ja kieli, 40(1), 40–61. DOI: 10.23997/pk.95498
- Artikkeli II: Aarnikoivu, M. Studying international doctoral researchers: nexus analysis as a mode of inquiry. In review
- Artikkeli III: Aarnikoivu, M. (2020). The spatiotemporal dimension of doctoral education: a way forward. Studies in Higher Education, Online first. DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2020.1723530
- Artikkeli IV: Aarnikoivu, M., Korhonen, S., Habti, D., & Hoffman, D. M. (2019). Explaining the difference between policy-based evidence and evidence-based policy: A nexus analysis approach to mobilities and migration. Journal of Finnish Studies. Special Issue: Engaging the New Mobilities Paradigm in the Context of Finland, 22(1&2), 213–240. https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/63814
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