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Curating care-full spaces: doctoral students negotiating study from home
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Curating care-full spaces: doctoral students negotiating study from home

James Burford and Genine Hook
Higher Education Research & Development, Vol.38(7), pp.1343-1355
2019
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https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2019.1657805View
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academic writing autoethnography care doctoral education Home space
This article explores how care and space shape doctoral becoming. We extend previous higher education research that has critically examined the spatial arrangements of postgraduate study to explore how doctoral students negotiate both study from home and care-work responsibilities. The article draws on collaborative autoethnographic texts created by the authors to understand the ways in which care shaped their decisions about study spaces. We identify both exclusions and disadvantage in these accounts, at the same time as we discern wilfulness in the ways the contradictory positions of postgraduate student and caregiver were negotiated. We conclude the article by arguing that educational spaces are involved in the maintenance of academic norms that position care-work as invisible and out-of-place/space. Despite this, the creation of productive home spaces that facilitate both care and doctoral work remain possible.

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