Constructing an academic identity in Australia: an autoethnographic narrative |
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| Authors: | Bin Ai |
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| Institution: | School of Foreign Languages, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines the process of academic identity construction experienced by a Chinese PhD student in an Australian university from 2010 to 2014. The researcher draws on his diaries written in Australia and uses some stories of the relationships with his supervisors and other scholars to unfold the process of his academic identity construction in a host academic community. Two years on, the researcher reflects on the challenges confronted during his candidature, exploring the Australian PhD education system from within. This study will help educators and supervisors to understand an international higher degree research student’s gradual academic identity construction as a cultural Other in the context of globalized higher education systems, and it will contribute to the mutual understanding between supervisors and international research students, as well as supervisors’ professional supervision in a globalized higher education context. |
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| Keywords: | PhD students academic identity construction intercultural supervision doctoral education autoethnographic narrative |
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