... education Tertiary education Graduate students Student experience Master’s education is on the rise across the globe (OECD, 2025) but especially in the USA where the data from this study are drawn. In the USA, more than 13,000 programs have been created since 2005 (Kelchen and Barrett, 2024...

...Radomir Ray Mitic; Maire Brandenburg; Bingqing Wu; Rabeya Khatun Purpose This paper aims to explore how international graduate students from the Global South studying in US space science programs challenge dominant norms in developing their science identity within the context of racist and anti...

...). Corresponding author Cat Jones c.jones.27@warwick.ac.uk 18 10 2024 17 04 2025 30 05 2025 04 06 2025 © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Co-production Writing retreat Part-time Graduate students Doctoral...

... of view: the role of journals in shaping the academic identity of graduate students through a collaborative autoethnographic study. Design/methodology/approach The authors explore their personal experiences as student editors of Current Issues in Education (CIE) produced at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers...

..., technology, mathematics and engineering (STEM) graduate education. Design/methodology/approach The authors used a general qualitative inquiry research study design to conduct focus groups (n = 121) with graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty members from across STEM disciplines...

...Hyeon Jean Yoo; David T. Marshall Purpose This study aims to understand the role of seeking social support in the relationship between perceived helplessness, self-efficacy and satisfaction among graduate students during the pandemic, drawing upon the transactional model of stress and coping...

...Andrea Kunze; Rodney Hopson Purpose This study aims to explore how science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) graduate students’ experiences with and conceptualizations of racism can more clearly expose the current racial climate across multiple academic institutions...

...Jarett D. Haley; Amber N. Williams; Rosemary J. Perez; Claire K. Robbins Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore how US graduate students described their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) education and engagement experiences outside their academic departments. Design/methodology...

...Elizabeth A. Jach; Anthony P. Rinaldi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight suicide risk factors experienced by graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, and then outline suicide prevention strategies for these populations. Design/methodology/approach Through analysis...

...Wendy B. Schiff; K. Marinka Gadzichowski; Matthew G. Le Brasseur; Melissa C. Carlin Purpose This study aimed to investigate the impact of a university’s abrupt closure on the lives of graduate students and examined the role of grit, social support and school identification as they transferred...

... for doctoral student support targeting specific milestones, this study identified strategies to support doctoral students’ novice-expert mindsets during role transitions. These strategies may benefit other graduate students, as well as faculty and program directors, as they work to support student completion...

...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...