Supervisors play a significant role in the doctoral process, but the relationship between doctoral researcher and supervisor is fraught with potential challenges, especially when students publish with their supervisors. There resources may help you better navigate these relationships.
Journal articles
Article-based thesis or thesis by monograph? Supervisors’ views on the route to completion of doctoral studies 🔓🇨🇦
Schachtebeck | 2025 | Business Ecosystem & Strategy
Exploring the PhD supervisor/candidate relationship for a ‘publication-based thesis’: a metaphor-driven approach 🔓
Sammon et al. | 2024 | Journal of Decision Systems
PhD by prospective publication in Australian business schools: provocations from a collaborative autoethnography 🔓🇦🇺
Billsberry & Cortese | 2023 | International Journal of Doctoral Studies
Moving between fantasies, fallacies and realities: students’ perceptions of supervisors’ roles in doctoral publishing 🇳🇿
Xu | 2020 | Teaching in Higher Education
Doctoral publishing as professional development for an academic career in higher education 🇦🇪
Wilkins | 2021 | The International Journal of Management Education
★Choosing the thesis by publication approach: motivations and influencers for doctoral candidates 🇦🇺
Mason et al. | 2020 | Australian Educational Researcher
★Institutional and supervisory support for the thesis by publication 🇦🇺
Mason et al. | 2020 | Australian Journal of Education
★Publications in the doctoral thesis: challenges for doctoral candidates, supervisors, examiners and administrators 🇦🇺
Mason | 2018 | Higher Education Research & Development
Paper-based theses as the silver bullet for increased research outputs: first hear my story as a supervisor 🇿🇦
Pretorius | 2017 | Higher Education Research & Development
Apprenticeship in scholarly publishing: a student perspective on doctoral supervisors’ roles 🔓🇨🇳
Lei & Hu | 2015 | Publications
A juggling act: supervisor/candidate partnership in a doctoral thesis by publication 🔓🇦🇺
Nethsinghe, R., & Southcott | 2015 | International Journal of Doctoral Studies
Critical reflections on doctoral research and supervision in human geography: the ‘PhD by publication’
Dowling et al. | 2012 | Journal of Geography in Higher Education
Books and chapters
Supervising a thesis by publication: complementary narratives 🌍
Guerin & Nguyen | 2024 | In Narratives and Practices of Mentorship in Scholarly Publication
Incorporating agile principles in completing and supervising a thesis by publication 🌍
Shrestha | 2023 | In Deconstructing Doctoral Discourses
★Ethical and practical considerations for completing and supervising a prospective PhD by publication 🌍
Mason & Frick | 2022 | In Landscapes and Narratives of PhD by Publication
Evolving identities: a collaborative autoethnography in supervising and being supervised by colleagues 🌍
Gravett | 2022 | In Landscapes and Narratives of PhD by Publication
Supervisors and candidates negotiating the purpose of the thesis when choosing between formats 🔓
Skov | 2021 | In Re-imagining doctoral writing
Supervising a thesis that includes publications 🌍
Sharmini | 2017 | In Developing Research Writing
New ways: supervising creative research work and the PhD by publication🌍
Wisker | 2012 | In The Good Supervisor
Blog posts
★Publishing during candidature: advice from candidates to supervisors 🔓🌍
Mason & Merga | 2019 | Supervising PhDs blog
Supervising student publishing during doctoral candidature 🔓🌍
Aitchison | 2013 | DoctoralWriting SIG
Conference papers
The PhD thesis by publication in engineering: insights for supervisors 🌍
Moodie & Hopgood | 2012 | Conference paper | Engineers Australia
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