Collaborative Research Narratives in Counselling (92739)

This paper examined the collaborative reflective process between the research supervisor and the student researcher. Counselling supervision of research students, involves a collaborative reflective process, where the supervisor engages with the student to plan their research by finding a worthwhile issue of concern that resonates with their own identity narrative (McAdams, 1985, 2018) or narratives from their community work with clients, in order to explore with research participants, an enhanced collective narrative (Rappaport, 2000) that might benefit the community.
Using a descriptive analysis methodology, this paper identifies socially critical phenomena and, in doing so, answers questions about who, what, where and to what extent (Loeb et al., 2017). The method of analysis proposed is the descriptive narrative as the questions to be answered are transposed into this article to discuss research supervision (who) in counselling (what) in education settings (where) for student progression (to what extent).
Building upon co-operative inquiry principles of collaborative and reflective critical thinking, action research cycles, and narrative inquiry, we explore the concept of enhanced community narratives through the collaborative process of supervision for enriched social research.
We contribute to the literature in three ways. First by examining existing research on Higher Degree by Research (HDR) supervision and the current landscape and knowledge in the field. Second, we align reflective process as a key element of HDR supervisor and provide evidence of research outcomes consistent with reflective processes. Third, this paper proposes collaborative research narratives as pertinent to HDR supervision.

Authors:
Ebi Cocodia, Southern Cross University, Australia
Julie Morsillo, Eastern College Australia, Australia

About the Presenter(s)
Ebi Cocodia is Professor of Counselling in the Faculty of Health at Southern Cross University, Australia

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