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This was a joint event between the Higher Education SIG, Youth Studies and Informal Education SIG & Early Career Researcher Network.

This event shared narratives of starting points and strategies in responding to diversity through a keynote by Dr Jessica Gagnon and then conversations between doctoral supervisors and candidates. Conversation 1 included Professor Mike Seal, his supervisor and a supervisee. Conversation 2 was by Dr Jessica Gagnon and an international candidate. Conversation 3 featured Dr Chris Rolph and a doctoral candidate discussing issues around modes of study, different degrees or non-traditional candidates and supervisors.Ìý

Policies have increased theÌýdiversity of doctoral candidatesÌýin terms of age, race, class, disability, gender and sexuality,Ìýbut also modes of study, distance, types of degrees and supervisory arrangementsÌý(Taylor et al. 2018). This increase of ‘non-traditional’ candidates through widening participation is largely welcomed but there are challenges which supervisors are encouraged to addressÌý(Eley and Jennings, 2005). There is also an increase of colleagues supervising colleagues which is under researched and under theorisedÌý(Madikizela-MadiyaÌý& Atwebembeire, 2021). It can be argued thatÌýthe use ofÌý‘non-traditional’ positions these candidates inÌýdeficit (Taylor and Goodfellow, 2020)Ìýas fundamental doctoral structures have not shifted (Seal, 2021). Adapting supervisory practiceÌýis important to support institutional policiesÌý(Gagon, 2021) by recognising the different starting points of the doctoral candidates and not following a one-size-fits-all supervisory approach (Everitt and Blackburn, 2023). Whilst a doctoral degree may separate the supervisor from the candidate, research suggests that a supervisor’s identity is also developing alongside the candidates, indicated fluidity in identity development as they are both becoming at the same time (Gravett, 2021; Pratt and Shaughnessey, 2016).Ìý Ìý

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