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Socialisation and the role of culture

In this video Janet Jackson, an expert on socialisation, context and culture, explains how certain dynamics in the PhD supervisor social context work.

In the following video, Janet Jackson, an expert on socialisation, context and culture, explains how certain dynamics in the PhD supervisor social context work.

This video acts as the bridge between the previous activity, in which you mostly focused on how you were being socialised in the social context that you are in (academic context), to the following activity, in which you focus more on how you socialise those that you supervise (your PhD students), and being a role model for them.

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