If life is a
stage, like Shakespeare wrote, then life in the academic world is also a stage.
I interviewed eight doctoral students at Stockholm University for a Master thesis in
Sociology. The study was presented to the interviewees as a study of the
experiences of students in doctoral education with focus on the worst and best
experience. Due to what the doctoral students told me I called my text: ”Education Blues: A Study of the Emotional Roller
Coaster Ride of Ph.D. Education”
(Berggren
2012).
