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By conducting semi-structured interviews with both PhD students and their supervisors, we aim to understand the expectations, concerns and challenges of both students and supervisors involved in the PhD journey. We found that the main concerns and challenges of students lie in the tight timeframe of scholarship, their 'ideological dissonance' and their relations with supervisors. The supervisors hope their Chinese students could improve academic writing skills, critical thinking skills and social skills in order to well accommodate the research culture in Australia and successfully complete their PhD research. Our findings could help Australian universities to better understand the cultural and educational challenges of Chinese PhD students and to further build up the quality for research training  \n166 Jian Xu and Wai-wan Vivien Chan  \nto attract more international research students from China and elsewhere.  \nKeywords: Chinese international students, Australian higher education, China studies, PhD supervision  \nIntroduction  \nAccording to statistics released by the Department of Education and Department of Employment and Workplace Relations in Australia in April 2022, 28% of the total 465,811 international students studying in Australia came from China.Though the COVID-19 and geopolitical tensions between Australia and China in the last few years have seen a small decline in numbers, China is still the nation that sends most students to Australia, followed by India at 16%(International Education Data and Research, 2022).In recent years, Chinese international students have become a focus of media coverage in Australia.From contract cheating scandals at universities (Belot, 2016), Chinese student protests against their teachers’open discussion of contentious issues relating to China (Reynolds, 2017), to China warning students to avoid Australia for study (Kuo, 2020), media reports on this cohort of overseas students have provoked heated debate in Australia about how to respond to China’s influence in Australian universities (Benney, 2017) and whether Australian universities are too reliant on income from China (Bolton, 2018).  \nRather than discussing the escalating tensions over Chinese international students in Australia, the article focuses on a very specific cohort of Chinese international students – PhD students, who come to Australia from China to pursue their doctoral degree in humanities and social sciences and conduct research on China studies projects1. It aims to understand the motives, expectations, challenges and problems of overseas PRC PhD students doing research about their home country, as well as of the supervisors with China expertise, both ethnic Chinese 1 China studies projects in this article refer to research topics that mainly investigate Chinese issues from a wide range of disciplines in humanities and social sciences, such as media studies,  \ncultural studies, sociology, anthropology, political science and so on.PhD students working on these projects are based in various schools or research centres not limited to a China Studies Centre or a Department of Chinese Studies.  \nDoing and supervising China Studies PhD projects in Australia: 167 Experiences of Chinese PhD students and Australian supervisors  \nand non-Chinese, who supervise such projects.Understanding these individual experiences that may have only been shared with a small circle of friends, and even not shared unreservedly between students and supervisors, will hel","cbCaiomxlNA05GhG","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiomxlNA05GhG","pdf",146590,"English","# Introduction\n## Study focus and rationale\n## Data and interview design\n# Students’ experiences\n## Research environment\n## Conducting PhD research\n## Relations with supervisors\n## Self-evaluation and career expectations\n# Supervisors’ experiences\n## Expectations for student development\n# Findings and implications","[{\"question\":\"What is the article’s main research focus?\",\"answer\":\"The article focuses on Chinese international PhD students conducting China Studies research in Australia and on the experiences of their Australian supervisors overseeing those projects.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the study conducted?\",\"answer\":\"The researchers conducted semi-structured interviews in early 2018 with 6 PhD students and 4 supervisors, using face-to-face, email, and WeChat voice calls, with participant names and projects anonymized.\"},{\"question\":\"What concerns and challenges do PhD students report most often?\",\"answer\":\"Students most often highlight tight scholarship timeframes, ideological dissonance, and difficulties related to their relationships with supervisors.\"}]","Doing and supervising China Studies PhD projects in Australia - Experiences of Chinese PhD students and Australian supervisors | PDF",1792076793]