Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1: EMBARKING ON A DOCTORATE -- 1: What is a doctorate and why do people do them? -- 2: How did I get here? An Auto/biographical Approach -- Cameo 1: The long and winding road that led me to an EdD course - Jean Clarkson -- Cameo 2: How our experiences influence the research topics we choose - Alan Hearsum -- 3: Learning on the doctoral journey -- Cameo: Spiralling into control: a research journey - Tracy Marshall -- Part 2: CONCEPTUALISING AND FOCUSING THE STUDY -- 4: Framing the research -- Cameo: How I theorised my thesis - my story - Carolyn Mason -- 5: Reviewing the literature -- Cameo: Reviewing the literature - John O'Neill -- PART 3: THINKING ABOUT METHODOLOGIES -- 6: Doing research: reflecting on methods, methodology and ethics -- Cameo: Methodology and methods - Bernard Longden -- 7: Approaching research as lived experience -- Cameo: Queer matters in methodology - Mark Vicars -- PART 4: WRITING THE THESIS -- 8: Writing and the writing process in a doctoral programme -- Cameo: Me and my writing process - Kathryn Roberts -- 9: Production values in the doctoral thesis -- Cameo: Writing the thesis - a personal account from which it might be hard to generalise much - Paul Machon -- PART 5: PRESENTING AND SHARING RESEARCH -- 10: Presenting your work at the viva -- Cameo: Surviving the viva - Maxine Burton -- 11: Whatever next? Spreading the word and becoming part of the research community -- Cameo: The doctoral experience - bearing fruit - Marion Jones -- Further reading -- Useful organisations and websites -- References -- Index.