What is it about?
In this paper we explore how we used poetic conversation via email as a way of building trust and destabilising neoliberal expectations within the academy
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Why is it important?
The shift to fast Doctorates in neoliberal universities limits the time to develop meaningful supervision relationships with a focus on 'outputs' and productivity. This paper resists the shift and acknowledges the importance of building trusting relationships.
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Employing poetry as a form of communication, via email, with my supervisor was important to our relationship and to my work in the PhD. This work represented my growing understanding of how I could work as an academic in a neoliberal university while simultaneously enact my belief in the importance of building trusting relationships.
Esther Fitzpatrick
University of Auckland
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This page is a summary of: Disturbing the Divide, Qualitative Inquiry, August 2014, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1077800414542692.
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