Henderson, Emily F. (2022) 'It’s not only me doing things for me’ : conference participation for doctoral students with caring responsibilities. In: Hook, Genine and Moreau, Marie-Pierre and Brooks, Rachel, (eds.) Student Carers in Higher Education : Navigating, Resisting, and Re-inventing Academic Cultures. Routledge research in higher education . Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 153-169. ISBN 9781032010946

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Conferences are recognised to be vital spaces for the development of doctoral students, providing access to networks and knowledge, as well as socialising researchers into academia. Conferences provide a fertile ground for analysing what is both considered essential to the academic profession and yet portrayed as luxurious and extraneous. The benefits of attending conferences are intangible, though for doctoral researchers there are more obvious pressures pertaining to employability and knowledge gain. At the same time, it is recognised that attending conferences for any academic with caring responsibilities is challenging, but also that there are particular challenges for doctoral students with caring responsibilities. This chapter therefore focuses specifically on the tension between the heightened importance of conferences for doctoral students and the heightened challenges of care which accompany the financial constraints and precarity often associated with doctoral study. Drawing on the ‘In Two Places at Once’ project, this chapter is based on the analysis of five participants who were doctoral students. The analysis focuses on aspects of negotiating conference attendance and care which are highlighted in participants’ accounts as specific to or exacerbated by being a doctoral student.

Item Type:	Book Item
Subjects:	L Education > LC Special aspects of education
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- )
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Inclusive education -- Great Britain, Caregivers -- Education (Higher) -- Great Britain, College student parents -- Great Britain, Single parents -- Education (Higher) -- Great Britain, Educational sociology -- Great Britain
Series Name:	Routledge research in higher education
Publisher:	Routledge
Place of Publication:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY
ISBN:	9781032010946
Book Title:	Student Carers in Higher Education : Navigating, Resisting, and Re-inventing Academic Cultures
Editor:	Hook, Genine and Moreau, Marie-Pierre and Brooks, Rachel
Official Date:	13 June 2022
Dates:	Date Event 13 June 2022 Published 7 October 2021 Accepted
Page Range:	pp. 153-169
DOI:	10.4324/9781003177104
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights):	This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Student Carers in Higher Education : Navigating, Resisting, and Re-inventing Academic Cultures on 13 June 2022, available online: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003177104/student-carers-higher-education-genine-hook-marie-pierre-moreau-rachel-brooks
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit:	19 July 2022
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