Preliminary Material -- Supporting Autistic Special Students at My Work Community / Seija Kangas -- Researcher-Teacher as the Supporter of Various Pupils / Outi Kyrö-Ämmälä -- My Doctoral Thesis was about Inclusion – Emotions and Technique / Suvi Lakkala -- Learning How to See / Eeva-Liisa Peltokorpi -- In the Grasp of Facilitated Communication / Anna-Kaisa Sipilä -- Pioneering on Research on Sámi Education – Deliberations about a Researcher’s Position / Pigga Keskitalo -- On a Researcher’s Way – The Dream Come True / Irja-Kaisa Lakkala -- In Wonderland – How to Supervise a Fox? / Outi Oinas -- Enchanted with Rhetoric and a Radio Journalist’s Virtuosity on Speech / Seppo Alajoutsijärvi -- Having Courage to See in My Shy Heart of Hearts / Marika Savukoski -- In the Riptide of Insecurity and Empowerment / Teija Koskela -- Fundamentally, I am Always a Public Health Nurse / Kerttu Oikarinen -- Graduating as a Doctor with a Large Family’s Support / Salme Sahi -- From the Countdown to an Intermediate Stopping Point / Tuija Turunen -- Like a Bat out of Hell / Tuula Uusitalo -- A Dissertation Process brings Work and Agony, Joy and Feast for a Spouse too / Pertti Lakkala -- Far and Wide / Esko Oikarinen -- Participating in Spouse’s and Daughter’s Doctoral Studies / Arto Peltokorpi -- Listen, Support, and Care / Jarkko Savukoski -- The Importance of Family Participation / Jorma Turunen -- Shared Scientific Benefits for the Mentor and the Mentee: A Self-Study of a Doctoral Student’s Supervision in an International and Collaborative Context / Raimo Kaasila and Sonja Lutovac -- An Opponent as a Doctoral Student’s Support, Safety, or Verdict / Soili Keskinen -- Applying for Funding for a Doctoral Research: Research Plans / Mikko Korkiakangas -- Pre-examiners’ Role and Responsibility / Eija Kärnä -- The Phenomenology of a Dissertation Process: The Limits of Structures and the Anarchy of Thinking / Kirsi-Marja Saurén -- The Pedagogy of Supervising Doctoral Theses -- Going with the Research Flow from Master’s Thesis to Doctoral Thesis and Beyond / Satu Uusiautti -- List of Authors.

After having supervised the 30th doctoral thesis at the University of Lapland, Finland, Professor Kaarina Määttä invited the doctoral graduates and their circle of acquaintances to talk about their experiences of the process of writing a doctoral thesis and their opinions on good supervision and support. What did the dissertation process give and demand? Those who can answer this question are the ones who have defended their doctoral theses as well as the candidates’spouses and professionals in the scientific community. This book introduces explicitly all the phases of graduating as a doctor, reveals the personal matters concerning doctoral theses, and concretizes the pedagogy of supervising doctoral theses.

Abstracts in English.

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