🧵A growing list of sources used to inform the 2020-2021 #phdmums study. Find details of some great resources on the intersecting identities of doctoral researcher and mother👇

(Thanks @dr_lpretorius for the inspiration☺) Reading list: Articles, dis...
📚Great expectations: doctoral student mothers in counselor education
🎓10 counselor education researcher mothers 🇺🇸
🔎Interviews
🗨️"various and conflicting messages from faculty regarding support for themselves as parents and doctoral students"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
📚Pregnancy, motherhood, and academic career goals: doctoral students’ perspectives
🎓28 pregnant health-care doctoral researchers 🇺🇸
🔎Interviews
🗨️"participants described implicit and explicit messages about their intersecting identities"
doi.org/10.1177/088610…
📚Mothers undertaking part-time doctoral study: experiences, perceptions and implications
🎓35 part-time doctoral researcher mothers 🇬🇧
🔎Interviews
🗨️"existing processes marginalise mothers doing part-time doctorates"
chesterrep.openrepository.com/handle/10034/6…
📚A seat at the table: womanist narratives of Black mothers in doctoral programs
🎓3 Black doctoral mothers 🇺🇸
🔎Ethnography / narratives
🗨️"As Black mothers in the academy we have to walk in our own light"
digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewconten…
📚A critical dialectical pluralistic examination of the lived experience of select women doctoral students
🎓8 doctoral researcher mothers 🇺🇸
🔎Questionnaires & interviews
🗨️"constant struggle for balance ... heightened levels of stress & anxiety"
nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol19/iss3…
📚Adult developmental experiences of African American doctoral student mothers ...
🎓8 African American doctoral mothers 🇺🇸
🔎Questionnaires & interviews
🗨️"programs are not family-friendly or attentive to the needs of their African American students"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
📚Socialization experiences of doctoral student mothers: “outsiders in the sacred grove” redux
🎓16 doctoral researcher mothers 🇺🇸
🔎Interviews
🗨️"doctoral mothers missed out on academic activities that were important for their professional success"
escholarship.org/uc/item/9sz3x0…
📚Learning to balance: exploring how women doctoral students ...
🎓20 doctoral mothers🇺🇸
🔎Surveys, questionnaires, focus groups
🗨️"women who experienced shifts in perspective appeared to have redefined what it means to be a good mother, student, & worker"
[Sourced at Proquest]
📚Mentorship in doctoral education for pregnant and newly parenting doctoral students
🎓28 health-care doctoral researcher mothers
🔎Interviews
🗨️"critical impact of mentoring through role modeling, guidance, and psychosocial support"
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
📚Women's experiences with parenting during doctoral education: impact on career trajectory
🎓777 doctoral researcher mothers🇺🇸
🔎Survey
🗨️"the impact of motherhood on doctoral work can be both positive and negative"
informingscience.org/Publications/4…
📚Talkin' back and shifting Black: Black motherhood, identity development & doctoral ...
🎓7 African American doctoral mothers
🔎Interviews & blog entries
🗨️"being a Black mother in predominantly white institutions ... facilitates both harm and healing"
dc.uwm.edu/etd/1425/
📚“This has been my life’s work”: a qualitative study of the experiences of doctoral ...
🎓16 higher education doctoral mothers🇺🇸
🔎Interviews & questionnaires
🗨️"the lives of doctoral student mothers are deeply enmeshed with those of their children"
eric.ed.gov/?id=ED563155
📚The timing of motherhood while earning a PhD in engineering
🎓11 engineering doctoral researchers🇭🇺
🔎Interviews
🗨️"strong social expectation of the long-term maternity leave in Hungary [led to] challenging circumstances for young female researchers"
informingscience.org/Publications/3…
📚Gender roles and the American academe: a case study of graduate student ...
🎓30 graduate researcher mothers🇺🇸
🔎Interviews
🗨️"the symbolic nature of both roles ... is often in conflict with the structural elements around which each role is performed"
doi.org/10.1080/095402…
📚“Stretched thin”: pregnancy and motherhood in clinical and counseling ...
🎓14 women who became pregnant during psychology doctorate🇺🇸
🔎Multiple interviews
🗨️"the majority reported self-stigma, social stigma, microaggressions, discrimination..."
digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/1700
📚Mama, PhD: women write about motherhood and academic life (Book)
🗨️"This literary anthology brings together a selection of deeply felt personal narratives by smart, interesting women who explore the continued inequality of the sexes in higher education"
rutgersuniversitypress.org/mama-phd/97808…
📚“I want to be both, but is that possible?”: communicating mother-scholar uncertainty...
🎓30 married women doctoral researchers🇺🇸
🔎Interviews
🗨️"importance of informal conversation and silence in enabling, constraining, and complicating..."
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
📚Merging motherhood and doctoral studies: an autoethnography of imperfectly weaving identities
🎓1 doctoral mother
🔎Autoethnography
🗨️"the contradiction .. simultaneously carry guilt and gratitude, and acknowledge the sacrifice and privilege"
nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol26/iss6…
📚I will get this done, and I will do it my way...
🎓9 doctoral researcher mothers in student affairs🇺🇸
🔎Interviews, journals, etc.
🗨️"grassroots effort of empowering others and working toward a more equitable academy"
digscholarship.unco.edu/dissertations/…
📚Parenting on the path to the professoriate...
🎓2994 PhD graduates>academics 🇺🇸
🔎NCESES US National databases
🗨️"a positive sign that tenure-track jobs may be more equitably distributed across gender and family status than in previous years"
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
📚Matching moms: understanding how doctoral student mothers in professional psychology ...
🎓8 psychology doctoral mothers🇺🇸
🔎Interviews
🗨️"predoctoral internship match ... potential to further disenfranchise women from the profession
proquest.com/docview/179965…
📚Mother of invention: developing a better understanding ... doctoral persistence
🎓22 doctoral student mothers🇺🇸
🔎Interviews
🗨️"participants persist because they integrated academically & found social integration & interaction outside their department"
proquest.com/openview/9820b…
📚The phenomenon of doctoral student motherhood/mothering...
🎓4 doctoral researcher mothers🇺🇸
🔎Interviews, questionnaires, etc.
🗨️"mothering in academia is a gendered experience that is strategic and embedded with a varied sense of belonging"
dx.doi.org/10.13140/2.1.3…
📚A reflexive autoethnography of doctoral supervision: lone mother, lone researcher
🎓Doctoral researcher mother and supervisors
🔎Autoenthnography🇬🇧🇵🇰
🗨️"lone motherhood ... was never fixed in emotional terms and had serious emotional swings"
doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2…
📚Supports and recommendations for pregnant and newly parenting doctoral students ...
🎓28 doctoral researcher mothers (to be)🇺🇸
🔎Interviews
🗨️"importance of the supports ... that both presented challenges and contributed to their doctoral success"
doi.org/10.1080/104377…
📚Women in distance doctoral programs ...
🎓17 distance doctoral researcher mothers🇺🇸
🔎Questionnaires, interviews, life maps
🗨️"a woman’s social conditions ... [provide] confidence and space to differentiate, develop, and intersect multiple identities"
ijds.org/Volume12/IJDSv…
📚Is there ever a perfect time to have a baby? ...
🎓9 doctoral researcher mothers🇺🇸
🔎Questionnaire, interviews, etc.
🗨️"it is possible to be a graduate student mother who finds a reasonable balance and manages conflict among the responsibilities ..."
rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/64…
📚Finding a balance: a narrative inquiry into motherhood and the doctorate
🎓1 doctoral researcher mother🇺🇸
🔎Autoethnography, journals
🗨️"there have to be plenty of women out there who managed ... right? How do they do it? How will *I* do it?"
nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol18/iss1…
📚Of diapers and dissertations ...
🎓17 Education doctoral researchers🇨🇦
🔎Interviews, questionnaires
🗨️"women were able to articulate the dominant definitions of the good mother and the good student but, for the most part, they rejected them"
open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collect…
📚...How saudi female doctoral students in eudcation manage academic and motherhood roles in US universities
🎓14 Saudi doctoral researchers in US🇸🇦🇺🇸
🔎Interviews
🗨️"Saudi mothers developed a number of strategies to manage their roles & responsibilities"
kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/24…
📚The experience of wellness for counselor education doctoral students...
🎓7 counselor education doctoral mothers🇺🇸
🔎Interviews, focus group
🗨️"a balance of support, safety, and challenge will provide a healthy foundation for individual growth"
scholarworks.uno.edu/td/308/
📚Sleepless in School: A First-Generation Doctoral Student Mother of Color's Journey
🎓Mother☝️to sleepless child🇺🇸
🔎Reflective essay
🗨️"I was not sure that I would survive this doctoral program, so I gave myself permission to fail before I even started"
doi.org/10.5406/womgen…
📚Back to school: the balancing act graduate students mothers play...
🎓13 married doctoral mothers🇺🇸
🔎Interviews, focus group
🗨️"they experienced an identity crisis as they tried to balance each of their identities"
researchgate.net/publication/25…
📚The dishes can wait: a young mother’s reflection ...
🎓1 doctoral mother graduate🇦🇺
🔎Autoenthnography
🗨️"researchers who may be struggling and happen to stumble across this narrative of my experiences may find comfort in knowing that it can be done"
research-repository.griffith.edu.au/bitstream/hand…
📚Understanding the experiences of female doctoral students
🎓8 doctoral mothers🇬🇧
🔎Interviews
🗨️"universities need to be more aware of the ‘dual lives’ often lived by women researchers"
doi.org/10.1080/030987…
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