Student voice in doctoral education research.: Book review: Mulligan, D. L., Ryan, N. and Danaher, P. A. (eds.), Deconstructing Doctoral Discourses: Stories and Strategies for Success (2022). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Doctoral students rarely discuss the realities of being an apprentice in the neoliberal university. Instead, the complex journeys of these junior scholars are often reduced by decision makers to metrics of attrition, times to completion, and published outputs. The resulting silence breeds an academic culture of conformity, with new scholars simply adhering to the prevailing narratives of what and how they should research. Doctoral students are the future of the academic workforce. The future of knowledge. They are the only antidote available to remedy the failings of higher education. The dominant perspectives that have overseen the death of the Humanities, the climate crisis, and growing geopolitical instability cannot be challenged if PhD students remain passive in a doctoral education system that supports existing ways of becoming a scholar. Deconstructing doctoral discourses aims to probe, expose, and reimagine the normalised shortcomings of doctoral education. The editors, in combination with approximately 30 contributors offer counternarratives to prise open new vistas for conducting, supervising, and designing doctoral study.