Reflections on Learning, Life and Work: Completing Doctoral Studies in Mid and Later Life and Career

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Researching Culture, Realising Self....Pages 3-15
Australia and September 11....Pages 17-23
Timely Intervention – Before It’s Too Hard....Pages 25-38
From the Ridiculous to the Sublime....Pages 39-50
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
Through Music to Postgraduate Study....Pages 53-65
The Call to Individuation....Pages 67-74
Battles, Bed and the Ph.D.....Pages 75-85
Living Knowledge to the Edge....Pages 87-98
Reframing My Landscape....Pages 99-113
Pamela Anderson, Durer and Herrenvolk....Pages 115-131
A Precarious Path...With Heart....Pages 133-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
So You Think You Will Pursue a Ph.D.....Pages 149-152
Muted Voices....Pages 153-163
Swimming With Piranha....Pages 165-182
Life, Research and a Baby....Pages 183-194
Why I Became a Teacher Activist....Pages 195-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Voyages....Pages 209-221
There is Life After the Doctorate....Pages 223-230
Never Give In....Pages 231-244
Learning to Become an Academic....Pages 245-254
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
The Immortal Now....Pages 255-272
Releasing the Apsara....Pages 273-280
Back Matter....Pages 281-284