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		<title>What is an education-focused academic?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Author: Lynette Pretorius As a tenured education-focused academic, I am frequently asked a variation of the same curious question: &#8220;What is it that you actually do?&#8221; There is often an underlying assumption that academia only possesses one true shape, leaving many outside, and indeed within, the university ecosystem puzzled by this specific title. To demystify<div class="more-link">
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		<title>What does success really look like for an international PhD student?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lynette Pretorius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 05:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Authors: Maxi (Huy-Hoang) Huynh and Lynette Pretorius. Note: We also acknowledge the other co-authors of our&#160;paper, as it was a truly collaborative project:&#160;Sandeep Khattri, Zhiheng Zhou, Redi Pudyanti, Abdul Qawi Noori, and Huizhen Nan. Doing a PhD is often seen as a journey of growth and achievement, but have you ever stopped to ask what<div class="more-link">
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		<title>Learning how academia really works: what doctoral students discover beyond the PhD handbook</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lynette Pretorius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Authors: Sandeep Khattri and Lynette Pretorius. Most doctoral students begin their PhD expecting to learn how to conduct research. They read the literature, design a study, collect and analyse data, and aim to contribute new knowledge to their field. On paper, the path to becoming a scholar appears relatively clear: map the literature, master the<div class="more-link">
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		<title>Becoming a scholar together: why doctoral writing groups matter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lynette Pretorius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Authors: Abdul Qawi Noori, Michael J. Henderson, and Lynette Pretorius. We often imagine doctoral writing as a solitary endeavour. The image of a PhD candidate working alone, a lone ‘genius’ wrestling with literature, writing drafts, chasing deadlines, and decoding reviewer comments, still dominates academic and public culture. When writing stalls or publications don’t succeed, we<div class="more-link">
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		<title>The questions that keep me up at night and what I plan to do about them in 2026</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lynette Pretorius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Author: Lynette Pretorius. Hi everyone, and welcome to The Scholar&#8217;s Way for 2026! As I start the year back at work, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on what I do. A nice introduction to my new subscribers and a reminder of why you are here if you&#8217;ve subscribed for a<div class="more-link">
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		<title>Deadline extended &#8211; you can still submit your abstract! 🎉</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lynette Pretorius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 06:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Author: Lynette Pretorius. Hi everyone! A quick note to let you know the deadline has been extended to submit an abstract for our upcoming research paradigms book. Final abstracts are due 28 November 2025 at 12PM AEST (Melbourne time; UTC+11). So you still have time! 🎉 We are looking for stories from all different paradigms<div class="more-link">
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		<title>Call for abstracts for our research paradigms handbook!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lynette Pretorius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Authors: Lynette Pretorius and Basil Cahusac de Caux. We are seeking chapter contributions for a forthcoming edited book titled The Researcher’s Compass: Choosing Your Paradigm, Finding Your Voice. This book aims to demystify research paradigms by offering accessible, reflective, and grounded accounts of how paradigms shape research design, practice, and identity. The book will be<div class="more-link">
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		<title>Seeing myself in pixels: What happens when GenAI becomes a co-researcher?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lynette Pretorius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 05:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Author: Lynette Pretorius. I didn’t set out to write an essay about academic identity, generative AI, and publishing politics. But, as with so many qualitative journeys, the story found me first. What started as a playful experiment with image generation soon became a critical turning point in how I understand knowledge, creativity, and resistance within<div class="more-link">
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		<title>When AI meets Ubuntu: rethinking power in academic writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 01:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Author: Lynette Pretorius. Hi everyone! I’m excited to share a new podcast episode that I think you’ll enjoy. Last week, I had the privilege of presenting my latest research on generative AI to the Australian Association for Research in Education. We explored some of the big questions shaping higher education right now, particularly how we<div class="more-link">
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		<title>Reclaiming our words: how generative AI helps multilingual scholars find their voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Authors: Lynette Pretorius and Redi Pudyanti. Acknowledgement: This blog post extends our presentation at the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) Conference 2025. We acknowledge the other co-authors of our paper, as it was a truly collaborative project: Huy-Hoang Huynh, Ziqi Li, Abdul Qawi Noori, and Zhiheng Zhou. As the South African<div class="more-link">
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