1st Edition

Online Communities for Doctoral Researchers and their Supervisors Building Engagement with Social Media

Edited By Julie Sheldon, Victoria Sheppard Copyright 2022
180 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Bringing together accounts of online community engagement from a range of perspectives, this book considers how the changing landscape of doctoral communities might be used to inform institutional level decisions about doctoral provision and support. Despite the increasing availability of online communities dedicated to doctoral supervisors, there has been little consideration of how they... Read more
1. The Open Dissertation: How Social Media Shaped – and Scaled – my PhD Process  2. Doctoral Candidates’ Experiences of Social Media: I don't think I could do the PhD without it  3. It started with a Tweet: how doctoral researchers become media savvy  4. Intersubjective reflections of @PhDForum: A doctoral community on Twitter  5. Online communities that support postgraduate well-being  6. Online Communities of Practice for Academic Practice and a Sense of Belonging  7. Blending online and offline in a Community of Practice model for research degree supervisor development  8. The Supervision Whisperers: Why a Virtual Community of Practice for Research Supervisors did (not) work  9. Academic Identity, the Supervisor and Online Communities of Practice  Interviews with content creators and curators  10. Interview with Mel Haines, Write that PhD  11. Interview with Katy Peplin, Thrive PhD Coaching Programme  12. Interview with Amy Bonsall, Women in Academia Support Network, #WIASN  13. Interview with Pat Thomson and Anuja Cabraal, VirtualNotViral

    Biography

    Julie Sheldon is Dean of the Doctoral Academy at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

    Victoria Sheppard is Researcher Development Manager at Liverpool John Moores University, UK