Exploring a Seemingly Simple Question
摘要
Tsolidis provides an overview of some of the issues that have arisen for the authors when writing this book. Remembering their study experiences brought to the fore the stress as well as the joy involved in completing a PhD. She considers the role of memory in the re-telling of experience. She argues that some of the difficulties experienced by the contributing authors need to be considered as a commentary on universities. What do painful memories tell us about universities and the place of marginalised students within them? In this concluding chapter, she revisits the notion of subjectivity and argues that there is some resistance to unbecoming in order to adopt a researcher subjectivity. Rather than simply relinquishing elements of the self in this process, doctoral scholars choose to retain, reinterpret and relinquish, and this choice making contributes to self-knowledge. This maintenance of elements of marginalised identities contributes to the broadening of what is commonly constituted as valuable academic knowledge as the outcome of the degree. The possibility of feminist supervision is discussed as well as some concluding comments on supervision.