Participation as a form of Socialisation How a Research Team Can Support Phd Students in Their Academic Path

The dynamics related to how PhD students are progressively integrated into their own disciplinary community, and how they learn the academic profession, represent an underexplored topic in the panorama of higher education studies, especially when considering in-depth investigations of specific institutional settings. Learning the academic profession is a complex and long process, and the integration of a researcher into the disciplinary community represents only its last step.