Doctoral Study and Cultural Identity

My colleague Adrian Holliday (who many of you will know from his writings) is looking for doctoral students willing to respond to the following questions:

1. What impact has doing a PhD had on your cultural identity?
(‘Cultural’ may be interpreted in a number of ways and you are of course at liberty to contest the term or define it in a way that you like.)

2. What do you think about the dominant view in some areas that doing a PhD in Britain is a particularly Western activity which might not have sufficient recognition of other backgrounds?

(Here you might also consider what you know of the experience of others.)

Dr Adrian Holliday
Professor of Applied Linguistics
Canterbury Christ Church University

website: http://adrianholliday.com

I CAN EXPLAIN FURTHER IF YOU LET ME KNOW OF YOUR INTEREST. Richard