Of Other Thoughts: Non-Traditional Ways to the Doctorate

Of Other Thoughts offers a path-breaking critique of the traditions underpinning doctoral research. Working against the grain of traditional research orthodoxies, graduate researchers (almost all from Indigenous, transnational, diasporic, coloured, queer and ethnic minorities) AND their supervisors offer insights into non-traditional and emergent modes of research-transcultural, post-colonial, trans-disciplinary and creative practice-led. Through case studies and contextualizing essays, Of Other Thoughts provides a unique guide to doctoral candidates and supervisors working with different modes of research. More radically, its questioning of traditional assumptions about the nature of the literature review, the genealogy of research practices, and the status and structuring of the thesis creates openings for alternative modes of researching. It gives our emerging researchers the courage to differ and challenges the University to take up its public role as critic and conscience of society. Barbara Bolt | Associate Professor and Associate Director of Research and Research Training |The Victorian College of the Arts |University of Melbourne | AustraliaThese writings are essential reading for all PhD students interested in making their critical work count for more. They examine multiple sites where conservative politics and ethics, institutional regulations, culturally constrained supervisory practices, and disciplinary boundary maintenance run counter to the radical and transforming potential of critical PhD work. Graham Hingangaroa Smith | Distinguished Professor | Vice-Chancellor/Chief Executive Officer | Te Whare WA nanga o AwanuiA rangi| WhakatA ne | Aotearoa - New ZealandThis book makes a distinctive and valuable contribution to the growing literature on doctoral education. Readers will find a wonderfully diverse collection of perspectives on non-traditional paths to the PhD. The book synthesises theory with practice in a highly effective and engaging manner. It sets doctoral experiences in their broader cultural, political and intellectual contexts, and addresses epistemological and methodological questions with fresh insight. Of Other Thoughts will appeal to students and supervisors in a range of different fields and deserves a wide international readership. Peter Roberts | Professor of Education, University of Canterbury | Christchurch |Aotearoa - New Zealand

Of Other Thoughts offers a path-breaking critique of the traditions underpinning doctoral research. Working against the grain of traditional research orthodoxies, graduate researchers (almost all from Indigenous, transnational, diasporic, coloured, queer and ethnic minorities) AND their supervisors offer insights into non-traditional and emergent modes of research—transcultural, post-colonial, trans-disciplinary and creative practice-led. Through case studies and contextualizing essays, Of Other Thoughts provides a unique guide to doctoral candidates and supervisors working with different modes of research. More radically, its questioning of traditional assumptions about the nature of the literature review, the genealogy of research practices, and the status and structuring of the thesis creates openings for alternative modes of researching. It gives our emerging researchers the courage to differ and challenges the University to take up its public role as critic and conscience of society. Barbara Bolt | Associate Professor and Associate Director of Research and Research Training | The Victorian College of the Arts |University of Melbourne | Australia These writings are essential reading for all PhD students interested in making their critical work count for more. They examine multiple sites where conservative politics and ethics, institutional regulations, culturally constrained supervisory practices, and disciplinary boundary maintenance run counter to the radical and transforming potential of critical PhD work. Graham Hingangaroa Smith | Distinguished Professor | Vice-Chancellor/Chief Executive Officer | Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi| Whakatāne | Aotearoa – New Zealand This book makes a distinctive and valuable contribution to the growing literature on doctoral education. Readers will find a wonderfully diverse collection of perspectives on non-traditional paths to the PhD. The book synthesises theory with practice in a highly effective andengaging manner. It sets doctoral experiences in their broader cultural, political and intellectual contexts, and addresses epistemological and methodological questions with fresh insight. Of Other Thoughts will appeal to students and supervisors in a range of different fields and deserves a wide international readership. Peter Roberts | Professor of Education, University of Canterbury | Christchurch | Aotearoa – New Zealand

Endorsements; Acknowledgements; 1. Non-Traditional Ways to the Doctorate: Introduction 1; Part 1: Non-Traditional Candidates 2.1. Ruku – Dive: A Physicality of Thought; 2.2. Western “Sentences that Push” as an Indigenous Method for Thinking; 2.3. A “Psychedelic Method”: Spatial Exposition, Perspectivism and Bricklaying; 2.4. Fantasy, Resistance and Passion as Important Aspects of the Doctoral Writing Process; 2.5. Unaware that I Was Walking Backwards; 2.6. Contributing to the Field of Design Research A Brief Personal Wrap-Up; 2.7. The Trademan’s Door to the Ivory Tower: Doing Research as Just Another Kind of Practice; 2.8. Sticky Advice for Research Students; 3. Spaces of Other Thought: E kore e piri te uku ki te rino; 4. Culture as a Place of Thought: Supervising Diverse Candidates; 5. Transfer and Translation: Negotiating Conflicting Worldviews; 6. The Colour of Thought: Advising Ethnic Minority Candidates through a Radical Ethic of Pedagogical Love; 7. Transforming the Academic Field: Field-Reflexivity and Access for Non-Traditional Doctoral Candidates; 8. Queer as a Two-Bob Watch: The Implications of Cultural Framing and Self-Declaration; 9. Anxieties of Knowing: Renegade Knowledges – of Choice and Necessity; 10. Emerging Knowledge, Translation of Thought; Part II: Emerging Fields of Research; 11. Alternative Design Doctorates as Drivers for New Forms of Research, Or: Knowing and Not-Knowing in Design; 12. Thought out of Bounds: Theory and Practice in Architecture Doctorates; 13. Thinking through Moving Image and Performance; 14. Thinking through Art, Creating through Text: “I Think I May Be Finding My Own Voice”; 15. Spaces between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Deep Listening to Research in a Creative Form; 16. “Not All Academics Can Do It”: The Haunted Spaces of Post-Colonial Supervision; 17. A Creative Journey: By Māori for Māori. Interview with Robert Jahnke; 18. Emergent Knowledges and Non-Traditional Candidates:Conclusion; Index.