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Although we have all contributed to each chapter, in combining our expertise and experience of different disciplines and contexts to provide a range of perspectives and ideas, we have necessarily contributed different proportions to specific chapters. Thus, you may ‘hear different voices’ and encounter different vocabulary/jargon as you address different topics in the book. We hope this adds to, rather than distracts from, the content and your enjoyment. We will refer to the process of sharing your writing with others in the chapter focused on thesis writing, drawing on our experience of providing each other with constructive feedback while writing this book and many other books and articles. This has helped us to tone down our own discipline-specific jargon in our writing. All organisations, including institutions of higher education, and discipline groups within and between them, use jargon and specific language, so we have listed key terms in the Glossary, each one in bold at first mention in the main text, to help you if you are not familiar with it.

At the beginning of each chapter, we provide a list of its main content, while within chapters we use Activities, Information Boxes, Reflection Points and Top Tips to help engage you, enhance your reading, bring ideas to life and help you to make effective choices. Of special note, we have collected advice and examples from current and recent doctoral researchers to ensure that we represent doctoral education from their perspectives as well as ours. These perspectives, some of which are also from supervisors and others involved in the doctoral process, such as librarians, are presented as the Voice of Experience. Each chapter ends with References and additional suggestions for Further Reading.