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Carving Out Qualifications: Mastering Ph.D. Problems in Post-graduate Gender & Sexuality Study

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Uplifting Gender and Sexuality Education Research

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This book chapter considers the difficulties of studying gender and sexualities to gain qualifications. It recalls eight individuals’ current and past experiences as higher degree research (HDR) students—including honours, Masters and Ph.D. candidates and other academics. It first reviews the literature on working in this area and second provides a series of individuals’ most difficult experiences of being an HDR in gender and sexuality (G&S) research, and how they creatively overcame key obstacles. The chapter concludes by drawing together key learning from the literature and the HDR learning experiences, which can be applied when studying gender and sexuality topics.

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  1. Department of Educational Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Tiffany Jones

  2. BCSS, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia

    Alison Rahn & Andrea del Pozo de Bolger

  3. ARCSHS, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia

    Lucille Kerr & Paulina Ezer

  4. University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Mandy Henningham

  5. School of Education, Griffith University, Griffith, QLD, Australia

    Chloe Parkinson

  6. Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia

    Jessica Ison

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Jones, T. et al. (2019). Carving Out Qualifications: Mastering Ph.D. Problems in Post-graduate Gender & Sexuality Study. In: Jones, T., Coll, L., van Leent, L., Taylor, Y. (eds) Uplifting Gender and Sexuality Education Research. Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24205-3_10

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