Doctoral Study and Getting Published

Narratives of Early Career Researchers

Richard Fay|Achilleas Kostoulas
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Pressure to share research findings in the form of academic publications has meant that doctoral candidates are encouraged to develop skills that will help them engage with the competitive publication market.

Doctoral Study and Getting Published features a collection of early career research narratives that focuses on researcher development and education. There is an emphasis on the often pressurised process of publishing during or after a doctorate through an ecological perspective. The book brings together a diverse but coherent set of voices, reflections and advice from early-career researchers regarding publication experiences. Issues explored include academic identity, collaboration (including include student-supervisor relationships, co-authorship and working in research groups), dynamics of larger scholarly communities and engaging with publishers and reviewer feedback.

The book is intended as a supplementary resource for use by doctoral students and early career researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences, whether they are enrolled in academic writing programmes or working individually to develop their authorial identity.

Chapter 1. Doctoral study and getting published: Narrative and ecological perspectives; Richard Fay and Achilleas Kostoulas

  • Chapter 2. Local and global challenges for early career publishing; Jane Andrews
  • Part A. Finding or constructing a researcher identity
  • Chapter 3. The interacting selves in early career publishing and beyond: The search for a researcher identity; Magdalena De Stefani
  • Chapter 4. Where are you from?; Eljee Javier
  • Commentary to Part A; Richard Fay and Achilleas Kostoulas
  • Part B. The experience of writing
  • Chapter 5. ‘On being published’: A reflection on trajectories of (published) texts and researcher imaginaries; Jessica Bradley
  • Chapter 6. A garden of forking PhD paths; Edd Aspbury-Miyanishi
  • Chapter 7. Publish, not perish: Developing a purposeful approach to doctoral publications; Magdalena Rostron
  • Commentary to Part B; Richard Fay and Achilleas Kostoulas
  • Part C. Engaging with co-authors and critical peers
  • Chapter 8. Writing and publishing collaboratively: A safe scaffold for an ECR; Siti Masrifatul Fitriyah
  • Chapter 9. The benefits of ‘being shaped’ as an early career researcher; Dylan Williams
  • Chapter 10. My successful and less successful publication experiences; Sutraphorn Tantiniranat
  • Commentary to Part C; Richard Fay and Achilleas Kostoulas
  • Part D. Building or joining an academic community
  • Chapter 11. Developing researcherhood and professional belonging through publication; Zhuo Min Huang
  • Chapter 12. Building your ‘LOOP’ in navigating an academic community; Rui He
  • Chapter 13. How practice shapes research and a sense of community in the field of English for Academic Purposes; Paul Breen
  • Commentary to Part D; Richard Fay and Achilleas Kostoulas
  • Part E. Engaging with publishers
  • Chapter 14. Dilemmas and challenges in publication and revision of research articles as an early career researcher; Duygu Candarli
  • Chapter 15. Seeking constructive rejections: A reflection on my publication strategies during the PhD; Felix Kwihangana
  • Chapter 16. It is not easy to learn about your academic self through the eyes of reviewers; Mira Bekar
  • Chapter 17. It’s not about me; Paul Vincent Smith
  • Commentary to Part E; Richard Fay and Achilleas Kostoulas
  • Chapter 18. Concluding Comments; Mira Bekar

Richard Fay is a Critical Applied Linguist and Senior Lecturer in Education (TESOL and Intercultural Education) at The University of Manchester (UK). He founded and co-ordinates the LANTERN doctoral research group and he was awarded Teacher of the Year in 2012 for his leadership of this doctoral community. His academic and professional practice falls within the following domains: teacher education for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), researcher education, intercultural communication/education, and ethnomusicology.

Achilleas Kostoulas is an Applied Linguist at the University of Thessaly (Greece). His academic and professional background is in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. He trained as an English language teacher at the University of Athens and completed his postgraduate and doctoral studies in language education at the University of Manchester. He is the author of several monographs and edited collections focusing on diverse aspects of language teaching and language teacher education.