We’re delighted to announce the appointment of our new editors for the journal Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education.
Dr James Burford and Dr Katrina McChesney have joined as our new Co-Editors and Dr Maree Martinussen is our new Associate Editor.
Dr James Burford is Assistant Professor of Global Education and International Development at the University of Warwick. James is a higher education researcher who has worked in New Zealand, Australia, Thailand and the United Kingdom. He has a particular interest in postgraduate education and the academic profession. His previous research has focussed on doctoral writing, the affective-politics of doctoral education, the spatialities of postgraduate education, academic mobilities, higher education internationalisation, and queer theorisations of doctoral education. James is co-editor of the collection Re-Imagining Doctoral Writing (2021) and a co-author of Making Sense of Academic Conferences: Presenting, Participating and Organising (2022). James’ current research projects include examinations of doctoral admissions through an equity, diversity and inclusion lens, distance doctoral education, and research on international postgraduate education in the Thai context.
Dr Katrina McChesney is a Senior Lecturer in education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her research has spanned a range of educational studies and contexts - from early childhood to higher and adult education, and from Australasia to the Middle East - with consistent focuses on the ways people's lived experiences inform and intersect with wellbeing, social justice, and educational improvement. Katrina is currently working on a number of projects related to inclusive higher education, including exploring doctoral research by distance; trauma-informed postgraduate education and supervision; parents and pregnant people on university websites; wellbeing, resilience, and career readiness among preservice teaching students; and the experiences of women in academia. She has also conducted research in the areas of learning environments, wellbeing and resilience, and professional learning and development.
Dr Maree Martinussen’s (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata) research interests lie in equity policy in higher education, particularly in relation to the lived experiences of graduate researchers and early career academics. She is centrally concerned with issues around classism and widening participation agendas. Using feminist theories of emotion and affect, and analytic methods developed in identities studies, Maree is keen to forward an agenda for studying embodied meaning-making in highly empirical ways, which showcase the capacities of minoritised higher education actors. Currently, through a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowship, Maree is examining how class privilege and disadvantage intersect with gender and ethnicity in Australian universities, and their impacts on women from a range of socioeconomic and ethnic minority backgrounds who are enrolled in postgraduate studies.