Table Of ContentBasil Cahusac de Caux
Lynette Pretorius
Luke Macaulay Editors
Research and
Teaching in
a Pandemic
World
The Challenges of Establishing Academic
Identities During Times of Crisis
Research and Teaching in a Pandemic World
· ·
Basil Cahusac de Caux Lynette Pretorius
Luke Macaulay
Editors
Research and Teaching
in a Pandemic World
The Challenges of Establishing Academic
Identities During Times of Crisis
Editors
Basil Cahusac de Caux Lynette Pretorius
American University Faculty of Education
of the Middle East Monash University
Egaila, Kuwait Clayton, VIC, Australia
Luke Macaulay
CREATE
Deakin University
Burwood, VIC, Australia
ISBN 978-981-19-7756-5 ISBN 978-981-19-7757-2 (eBook)
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Contents
Part I An Introduction to Research and Teaching in a Pandemic
World
1 Preface: Research and Teaching in a Pandemic World ............ 3
Lynette Pretorius, Basil Cahusac de Caux, and Luke Macaulay
2 Introduction to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact
on Higher Education .......................................... 15
Basil Cahusac de Caux
3 A Harmony of Voices: The Value of Collaborative
Autoethnography as Collective Witnessing During a Pandemic .... 25
Lynette Pretorius
Part II Academic Identity Development Amidst
Pandemic-Induced Loss, Trauma, and Grief
4 Processing Uncertainty During COVID-19: A Collaborative
Autoethnography of Two Stranded International Ph.D.
Students ...................................................... 37
Rashmi Rangarajan and Samran Daneshfar
5 Balancing Growth and Grief: Narratives of an Immigrant
Doctoral Student Navigating Academia During the COVID-19
Pandemic ..................................................... 59
Sweta Vijaykumar Patel
6 Rediscovering Myself Through Fear of Failure: My Journey
as an International Doctoral Student During a Pandemic ......... 77
Mansura Mokbul
7 My PhD Saved My Sanity and My Life .......................... 87
Dawn Grant-Skiba
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Part III Locality and Internationality in Shaping Academic
Identities During a Pandemic
8 “Locked Down, But Inspired”: Beginning Our Research
Studies During COVID-19 ..................................... 107
Blake Cutler, Nilushi Minoli Dediwalage, Natalie Morgenstern,
Rebecca Rosenberg, Melissa Mackie, Oskar Bleeker,
Mandy Salisbury, and Gitaa Nyasani
9 Establishing Academic Identities Through Professional
Socialisation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Doctoral
Student, Institutional Member, or Early Career Researcher? ...... 121
Jiaqi Li and Jing Zhang
10 An International Student, a Researcher, or a Work-Ready
Graduate? Exploring the Self-formation of International
Students in Coursework Master’s Programmes .................. 141
Yuqi Lin and Yue Xu
11 Adaptation of Environmental and Sustainability Education
During the COVID-19 Pandemic ............................... 157
Kerry Power, Sylvia Christine Almeida, and Nicole Cowan
Part IV Resilience and Growth—Features of Academic Identity
Development During a Pandemic
12 Hajime! ははじじめめ! Karate as Academic Salvation .................. 173
Elvira Kalenjuk
13 Uncertainty and Autism: How Changing with the Times is
Harder for Some .............................................. 195
Kayla Sheridan, Kelly-Ann Allen, Rebecca Vine Foggo,
Aida Hurem, Erin Leif, and Nerelie Freeman
14 Academic Motherhood in Times of Pandemic: Finding Silver
Linings ....................................................... 213
Sun Yee Yip and Jacky-Lou Maestre
15 Lockdown, Online Learning, and Sense of Coherence: How I
Managed to Finish My Master’s Degree During the COVID-19
Pandemic ..................................................... 229
Anastasiya Umarova
16 Cognitive Hardiness in the Face of Uncertainty: PhD-ing
from Home During a Global Pandemic .......................... 243
Sherrica Senewiratne
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17 Mitigating the Challenges of Thesis Writing During
the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Autoethnographic Reflection
of Two Doctoral Students’ Perezhivanie .......................... 257
Jennifer Cutri and Ricky W. K. Lau
18 PhD Candidature During the Pandemic: Hansel and Gretel’s
Trip Through the Woods ....................................... 275
Queena Lee
19 Empowerment in the Crisis: Narratives of COVID-19
Generation Researchers ....................................... 287
Weiqi Jiang and Bingqing Li
20 Turning Crisis into Opportunities: New Insights
for Academic Experiences During the Pandemic Inspired
from a Cultural-Historical and Activity Theory Perspective
in an Autoethnography ........................................ 303
Suxiang (Susan) Yu
21 A Shift in Doctoral Students’ Demands and Motives During
the COVID-19 Pandemic ....................................... 315
Ade Dwi Utami
22 Entering a Career as an ECR in an Increasingly Shifting
Academic Landscape: The Value of Different Forms of Capital .... 327
Luke Macaulay
23 The Kitchen Table: Mother-Academics Reconfiguring Their
Emerging Identities While Aligning Family and Work ............ 343
Megan Adams, Fiona Longmuir, Venesser Fernandes,
Sylvia Christine Almeida, and Liang Li
Part V Doing Research in Times of Change—Methodological
Ethnographies of Coping
24 The Effects of the Pandemic on the Research Output
and Strategies of Early Career Researchers and Doctoral
Candidates ................................................... 361
Basil Cahusac de Caux
25 (Dis)embodied Learning: Centring the Body and Emotions
in Online Professional Learning ................................ 375
Danielle Hradsky
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26 Leveraging Zoom Video-Conferencing Features in Interview
Data Generation During the COVID-19 Pandemic ............... 391
Mochammad Ircham Maulana
27 Pixelated Participation: A Ph.D. Student’s Notes of Online
Data Generation During the COVID-19 Pandemic ............... 409
Yeni Karlina
28 The Unforgotten Pre-service Teachers [Participants]: Did
the Pandemic Affect Learning While on Practicum? What
Uncompleted Pre-service Teachers’ Mentoring Experiences
[Data] Can Tell Us ............................................. 423
Alberto Maringer Duran
29 The Impact of COVID-19 on PhD Research:
An Autoethnographic Account by an International
Student in Melbourne ......................................... 435
Muhammad Adnan Qureshi
Part VI Supporting Academic Identity Development During a
Global Crisis
30 “Memeing It Up!”: Doctoral Students’ Reflections
of Collegiate Virtual Writing Spaces During the COVID-19
Pandemic ..................................................... 455
Amar Freya and Jennifer Cutri
31 ‘Intertext’ in a New Context: Lessons Learnt
from Collaborating, Contributing, and Connecting
Through an Online Interdisciplinary Student-Led
Symposium During COVID-19 ................................. 469
Gabriella Karakas and Samantha Webster
32 “Let’s Talk About Wellbeing!”: Fostering Interdependence
in Doctoral Communities ...................................... 481
Dely Lazarte Elliot, Maxine Swingler, Maria Gardani,
Emily-Marie Pacheco, and Jennifer Boyle
33 Tackling a Sense of Insecurity: Enhancing Digital Literacy
as a Call to Action for Educators During the Pandemic ........... 497
Marina Aiusheeva
Contents xi
34 Education and ICT Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic:
Teaching Reflections of Indonesian Educators .................... 509
Angen Yudho Kisworo, Titus Angga Restuaji, Rika Nuriana,
and Fenny Mei Lina
35 Reflections on Developing Academic Identity During
the Pandemic ................................................. 527
Pennie White
36 CODA The Challenges of Establishing Academic Identities
During Times of Crisis ......................................... 545
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