Acknowledgements
Our passion for developing improvements in doctoral education has been both stimulated and sustained by the support of colleagues, friends, and research students worldwide who have also enthusiastically responded to similar challenges and opportunities in the field. We appreciate especially the contributions of those who supplied chapters and advice on our own and we thank them for sharing our journey.
We are also indebted to our publishing colleagues at Brill who have always been ready when required with advice and information and have provided us all with a platform to share our obsessions with the wider academic community.
We would also like to thank the universities that we have been affiliated to over the years for their support of our research and writing.
Most of all, we appreciate the patience and help of our families while we engaged with this project.