What is it about?
Remembering the body in the neoliberal university through poetry and collaboration - especially here with regards to Doctoral students. Explores the experiences of two recently graduated doctoral students and provides insight into important strategies they employed throughout their doctoral journeys.
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Why is it important?
Increasingly doctoral students are pressured to complete quickly, isolated from others in their journey, and for many confusion about what an academic future might mean. This article reminds us that doctoral students are more than their cognitive output - they are human/bodies with emotions and dreams. And that friendship is important.
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This was an important piece to write - reaching out to other doctoral students who get caught up in the neoliberal universities pressure cooker - to find friendship and write poetry.
Esther Fitzpatrick
University of Auckland
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This page is a summary of: Creating a Warmth Against the Chill: Poetry for the Doctoral Body, Art/Research International A Transdisciplinary Journal, March 2018, University of Alberta Libraries,
DOI: 10.18432/ari29368.
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