‘I won’t be squeezed into someone else’s frame’: stories of supervisor selection

Using a collection of stories from a group of women who belong to a PhD support group, this article tracks the issue of choosing a supervisor. These women are all academics and therefore had some claim to an “insider” status but as novice researchers they were also “outsiders”. Their discussions aro...

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