Dely L. Elliot & Søren S. E. Bengtsen 
Developing Researcher Independence Through the Hidden Curriculum 

This edited book examines the concept of researcher independence and its various strands and manifestations using the conceptual lens of the hidden curriculum. Contributions highlight, discuss and exemplify the instrumental and formational roles played by the hidden curriculum in promoting and facilitating doctoral scholars’ researcher independence. Contributing to limited scholarly resources on the hidden curriculum, the book stimulates debate concerning its pragmatic and theoretical importance, particularly in pursuit of researcher independence. Including first-hand examples from doctoral scholars, doctoral supervisors, researcher developers and institutional leaders, the book will appeal to doctoral scholars, researchers and students working in the areas of doctoral education, curriculum and pedagogical practices, doctoral supervision, mentoring and coaching, researcher education, learning and development and educational leadership.

Table of Content

Introduction.- Part I Insights from doctoral scholars.- 1 Through and towards an interdisciplinary research community: Navigating academia as a lone doctoral scholar.- 2 Mapping the Learning Opportunities of the Hidden Curriculum for International Doctoral Scholars in Japan.- 3 Peer-mentoring: A potential route to researcher independence.- 4 ‘Settle down’ or ‘Return overseas’? A reflexive narrative of an international Chinese doctoral scholar’s (re)adjustment experiences in China.- 5 ‘It is a nice way to end the week’: Journal club as an authentic and safe learning space.- Part II  Insights from doctoral supervisors.- 6 Facilitating Researcher Independence through Supervision as Dialogue.- 7 Creative Supervising / Supervising for creativity: Exploring the hidden dimensions of creativity in doctoral supervision.- 8 Developing a disposition for harnessing the hidden curriculum en route to becoming independent researchers: The role of doctoral supervisors.- 9 The interstitial doctoral life of #thesisthinkers: When the hidden curriculum might be all there is….- Part III  Insights from researcher developers.- 10 The Dance of Authenticity and Multiple Ways of Doing: Defining a Pedagogy for accessing the Hidden Curriculum in Doctoral Education and developing Researcher Independence.- 11 How humour can support researcher independence.- 12 Finding Confidence in Writing: Doctoral Writing Groups.- 13 Doctoral Intelligence Mechanisms to Illuminate Development Strategies in the Hidden Curriculum.- 14 Enabling part time doctoral scholars to develop effective support villages.- Part IV  Insights from institutional leaders.- 15  Echo-locating a personalised route to independence.- 16 Decolonising doctoral education: sociology of emergences?.- 17 Midwifing the New: Institutional Leadership for Doctoral Education.- 18 Nested leadership in research education.- Part V Insights on doctoral education beyond academia.- 19 Putting the ‘extra’ in extracurricular: Why going off-script is important for life after the doctorate.- 20 The hidden meanings of ‘independent research(er)’.- 21 Preparing for the world outside academia: Avoiding organisational culture shock.- 22 Changing career pathways: Making visible the employment destinations and non-academic contributions of doctoral scholars.- Conclusion.

About the author

Dely L. Elliot is Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Søren S. E. Bengtsen is Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Kay Guccione is Head of Researcher Development at the University of Glasgow, UK.