At the Intersection of Pastoral and Intellectual Support

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to illustrate how poetic narratives, created based on lived experience of supervision, can contribute to raising awareness of the involved parties’ professional identity development, as well as of values and premises for dialogic and relational doctoral supervision. Applying narrative inquiry as the analytical entry point (Caine, Estefan, & Clandinin, 2013), five central dimensions of research supervision are discussed (Lee, 2008). The 16 narratives presented in this article have been developed through a creative co- design partnership between the supervisor and the research fellow. Supervision is illustrated by concentrating on the two parties’ narratives relating to time, place, and relation. The article focuses on the most primary dimension, the relational, which is linked to vulnerability in life. Methodologically, the article moves autoethnographically between performance and sensory ethnography (Pink, 2015; Denzin, 1997) as its scientific theoretical foundation.