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The doctorate is a critical and highly relevant phase for academic success. It is also a fragile and risky period (Janson et al. 2006: 572). To understand and shape the academic success of non-traditional candidates, one needs to understand the University as a cultural context, an institutional space of socialisation.
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Weber, S.M. (2013). Transforming the Academic Field. In: Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.C., Peters, M.A. (eds) Of Other Thoughts: Non-Traditional Ways to the Doctorate. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-317-1_14
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