Identifying threshold concepts and proposing strategies to support doctoral candidates

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Challenges of Becoming a Scholar: A Study of Doctoral Students' Problems and Well-Being (2012, background): “If not explicitly guided, doctoral students may, for instance, face major problems in understanding the threshold concepts of their domain [45–48], which are key to developing disciplinary expertise [49].”
Doctoral students’ experiences leading to completion or attrition: a matter of sense, progress and distress (2017, background): “More significantly, Kiley (2009) suggests that when encountering threshold concepts in their doctoral journey, PhD students may at first experience a feeling of stuckness.”
Experiencing doctoral liminality as a conceptual threshold and how supervisors can use it (2015, background): “It is often through the process of mimicry that the doctoral student is cued with what is expected to fit in as a member of the research community (Kiley, 2009; Wisker & McAlpine, 2009; Wisker & Savin-Baden, 2009).”