The Future of Institutional Ethnographic Research: Mentoring Doctoral and Early Career Research across Institutions
The Future of Institutional Ethnographic Research: Mentoring Doctoral and Early Career Research across Institutions
Friday, 11 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: FSE011 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
WG06 Institutional Ethnography (host committee) Language: English
Doctoral and early career research increasingly takes place in institutions where neoliberal and managerial concerns leave limited time and space for deep conversations about research projects. For candidates engaging with institutional ethnography (IE), this can mean there are few opportunities within the institution about IE concepts, readings, and their analytic work. Members of WG06, the Institutional Ethnography Working Group, have worked to create networks that transcend university boundaries by holding regular online mentoring sessions that allow students to connect with more experienced researchers, and each other. This session invites PhD candidates (and other doctoral candidates such as those enrolled in an EdD) and early career researchers to submit abstracts that discuss perspectives on mentoring and doctoral supervision, and how this has shaped their institutional ethnographic research. Discussion of research mentorship may be woven into a presentation about IE projects. Mentors or doctoral supervisors are also invited to present on their experiences of organising and facilitating research mentoring, outlining the challenges and possibilities for supporting the work of research students, novice institutional ethnographers and early career academics.
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