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Ronan Paddison: reflections on a supervisor, mentor, friend

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Beel D, Crotty J, Docherty I, McCormick J, Rae N & Stewart D (2020) Ronan Paddison: reflections on a supervisor, mentor, friend. Space and Polity, 24 (2), pp. 294-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2020.1770586

Abstract
This is a composite paper bringing together six personal reflections on being supervised as doctoral students by Ronan Paddison. It contributes insightful and poignant voices of experience to a special issue commemorating the academic contributions – here with wider implications beyond the immediately ‘academic’ – of Ronan Paddison (1945–2019), the founder and for many years Editor-in-Chief of this journal, Space and Polity. The six sets of reflections have been authored independently of one another, but their cumulative effect is to demonstrate the depth of ‘hidden’ academic (and related) contribution made by Ronan to nurturing early career academics formally (through the doctoral supervision process) and more informally (in numerous ways and sometimes continuing well beyond the submission and award of a thesis).

Keywords
Supervision; PhD; Mentor; Collegiality

Journal
Space and Polity: Volume 24, Issue 2

StatusPublished
Publication date31/12/2020
Publication date online09/07/2020
Date accepted by journal13/05/2020
ISSN1356-2576
eISSN1470-1235

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Professor Iain Docherty

Professor Iain Docherty

Dean of Institute for Advanced Studies