... Diversity Equity Inclusion Co-curricular activities Agency Many graduate programs across disciplines and fields in the USA claim to value diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, given their benefits to students’ experiences and outcomes in graduate school (Posselt et al., 2017...

...Kimberly A. Griffin; Candace Miller; Josipa Roksa Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how student agency influences career decision-making for doctoral students in biological sciences. The authors address the following questions: How do biological science graduate students navigate...

... intentionally centering entrepreneurship, graduate students acquire entrepreneurial knowledge in ways that enhance their agency and sense of empowerment without diluting or overriding their academic and/or professional intentions. Practical implications Sensemaking is framed as a pedagogical resource...

... for academic careers that involve entrepreneurial activity. Conversely, PhD student agency involving cross-sector engagement and the pursuit of individual values and goals in ways that span the boundaries of academia have been overlooked. The purpose of this study is to qualitatively explore how a sample...

...Rosemary J. Perez; L. Wesley Harris, Jr; Claire K. Robbins; Cheryl Montgomery Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore how graduate students demonstrated agency after having oppressive or invalidating experiences based on their socially constructed identities during graduate school...

... Fifty-five per cent of the variance in satisfaction was described by a model including agency, support, international diversity and group climate. Sixty-five per cent of variance in intent to complete was described by a model comprising international diversity, agency and support. Several control...

..., unusual in its cross-national perspective, and its mixed mode data collection, offers a nuanced perspective on the interaction between agency and an environment where the “randomness factor” plays a role in success. The function of luck as a support for sustained agency and resilience is explored...