Doing reflexivity: moments of unbecoming and becoming

Abstract

This paper offers an account of a reflexive ‘trip’ undertaken by a professional doctoral student and her supervisor. It presents a series of vignettes which offer an account of unbecomings and becomings encountered by the student. Making use of a dialogic approach in which the supervisor responds to the student, we suggest this method of data collection might offer an innovative approach which goes beyond simple recollection to enable a deeper level of reflexive action. In so doing, we have identified three lines along which reflexivity appears to have been practised: conceptual, ethical and performative. These expose reflexivity as partial, fragmented and dynamic.

Keywords:

• methodology
• reflexivity
• professional doctorate
• doctoral supervision