Supervision and cultural difference: rethinking institutional pedagogies

Diverse interplays between cultural difference and graduate supervision raise complex questions for local and globalised research education. There are increased flows of research students internationally and greater local access to advanced levels of education for culturally diverse and indigenous students. The idea of culture itself is rife with definitional, political and practical complexity. In considering higher education pedagogies, culture can meaningfully refer to (at least) ethnicity, discipline, profession, industry and workplace