Of Other Thoughts: Non-Traditional Ways to the Doctorate

A Guidebook for Candidates and Supervisors

"Of Other Thoughts offers a path-breaking critique of the traditions underpinning doctoral research. Working against the grain of traditional research orthodoxies, graduate researchers (almost all from Indigenous, transnational, diasporic, coloured, queer and ethnic minorities) AND their supervisors offer insights into non-traditional and emergent modes of research—transcultural, post-colonial, transdisciplinary and creative practice-led. Through case studies and contextualizing essays, Of Other Thoughts provides a unique guide to doctoral candidates and supervisors working with different modes of research. More radically, its questioning of traditional assumptions about the nature of the literature review, the genealogy of research practices, and the status and structuring of the thesis creates openings for alternative modes of researching. It gives our emerging researchers the courage to differ and challenges the University to take up its public role as critic and conscience of society." - Barbara Bolt, Associate Professor and Associate Director of Research and Research Training, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia

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Ruku – Dive
A Physicality of Thought
Pages: 15–22
A “Psychedelic Method”
Spatial Exposition, Perspectivism and Bricklaying
Pages: 27–33
Contributing to the Field of Design Research
A Brief Personal Wrap-Up
Pages: 43–46
The Trademan’s Door to the Ivory Tower
Doing Research as Just Another Kind of Practice
Pages: 47–50
Spaces of Other Thought
E kore e piri te uku ki te rino
Pages: 53–66
Culture as a Place of Thought
Supervising Diverse Candidates
Pages: 67–82
Transfer and Translation
Negotiating Conflicting Worldviews
Pages: 83–99
The Colour of Thought
Advising Ethnic Minority Candidates through a Radical Ethic of Pedagogical Love
Pages: 101–114
Transforming the Academic Field
Field-Reflexivity and Access for Non-Traditional Doctoral Candidates
Pages: 115–129
Queer as a Two-Bob Watch
The Implications of Cultural Framing and Self-Declaration
Pages: 131–146
Anxieties of Knowing
Renegade Knowledges – of Choice and Necessity
Pages: 147–162
Thought out of Bounds
Theory and Practice in Architecture Doctorates
Pages: 203–220
Thinking through Art, Creating through Text
“I Think I May Be Finding My Own Voice”
Pages: 239–257
Spaces between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Deep Listening to Research in a Creative Form
Pages: 259–278
“Not All Academics Can Do It”
The Haunted Spaces of Post-Colonial Supervision
Pages: 279–296
A Creative Journey: By Māori for Māori
Interview with Robert Jahnke
Pages: 297–309
"Of Other Thoughts offers a path-breaking critique of the traditions underpinning doctoral research. Working against the grain of traditional research orthodoxies, graduate researchers (almost all from Indigenous, transnational, diasporic, coloured, queer and ethnic minorities) AND their supervisors offer insights into non-traditional and emergent modes of research—transcultural, post-colonial, transdisciplinary and creative practice-led. Through case studies and contextualizing essays, Of Other Thoughts provides a unique guide to doctoral candidates and supervisors working with different modes of research. More radically, its questioning of traditional assumptions about the nature of the literature review, the genealogy of research practices, and the status and structuring of the thesis creates openings for alternative modes of researching. It gives our emerging researchers the courage to differ and challenges the University to take up its public role as critic and conscience of society." - Barbara Bolt, Associate Professor and Associate Director of Research and Research Training, The Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia
"These writings are essential reading for all PhD students interested in making their critical work count for more. They examine multiple sites where conservative politics and ethics, institutional regulations, culturally constrained supervisory practices, and disciplinary boundary maintenance run counter to the radical and transforming potential of critical PhD work." - Graham Hingangaroa Smith, Distinguished Professor, Vice-Chancellor/Chief Executive Officer, Te Whare Wa¯nanga o Awanuia¯rangi, Whakata¯ne, Aotearoa – New Zealand
"This book makes a distinctive and valuable contribution to the growing literature on doctoral education. Readers will find a wonderfully diverse collection of perspectives on non-traditional paths to the PhD. The book synthesises theory with practice in a highly effective and engaging manner. It sets doctoral experiences in their broader cultural, political and intellectual contexts, and addresses epistemological and methodological questions with fresh insight. Of Other Thoughts will appeal to students and supervisors in a range of different fields and deserves a wide international readership." - Peter Roberts, Professor of Education, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Aotearoa – New Zealand
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