Supervision lunch seminar - Producing the “Independent Researcher” by Extending the Supervisory Relationship (In English)

In this seminar we will discuss and question the linear notion of the PhD as 'independent researcher' by reflecting on the multiple, and often un-or under-recognized, relations that accompany the PhD journey. Drawing on feminist approaches we suggest that independence can successfully be produced through 'interdependence’. This may help to: first, acknowledge the net of care practices already in place and dignify it as a fundamental part of the social infrastructure of doctoral education; second, mediate some problematic tendencies of neoliberal academia and conceptually reconcile the tensions between care and independence in doctoral education.

PhD Defne Kadioglu and PhD Chiara Valli, Institutionen för urbana studier, Malmö universitet