Part A: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Critical reflections on the conventional thesis structure and guide to the research questions addressed in the book -- Chapter 2. The collective voyage of discovery: How the book was developed and produced -- Part B: Mixed Methods -- Chapter 3. The paradigmatic challenge of mixed-methods research: Positivism, relativism or pragmatism? -- Chapter 4. An exploration of the epistemological beliefs, learning environment expectations and persistence intentions: Insights into the shaping of student persistence in the first semester of university study at three Australian universities -- Chapter 5. Challenges faced by male primary teachers -- Chapter 6. English language teaching in Nepal: An investigation of issues and challenges -- Chapter 7. How do students make decisions about overseas higher education? A case study of Chinese international students at a regional Australian university -- Chapter 8. Linguistic complexity in English Textbooks: A functional grammar perspective -- Chapter 9. Structure by design: Reasoning about covariation with TinkerPlots -- Chapter 10. Researching in the 'cultural interface': working between non- Indigenous and Indigenous research paradigms -- Part C: Action Research -- Chapter 11. Action research and criticality: Working out the stone in your shoe -- Chapter 12. Students' understanding of statistical inference: Implications for teaching -- Chapter 13. The design and implementation of a short course, focusing on metacognition, to develop writing skills for university students for whom English is an additional language: An action research approach -- Chapter 14. Intersections of indigenous knowledge and place based education: Possibilities for new visions of sustainability education in Uganda -- Chapter 15. "I only look forward to Mondays". Facilitating creative writing groups: ageism, action and empowerment -- Chapter 16. A journey around Tongan education -- Part D: Interpretive Methods -- Chapter 17. Ways of working in the interpretive tradition -- Chapter 18. Fluid methods to make sense of an unknown: An emergent grounded theory study of cultural wellbeing -- Chapter 19. Exploring interpretations of sustainability across diverse social contexts -- Chapter 20. Embracing change when 'writing for change': My PhD experience -- Chapter 21. Teaching history in Australian museums: Pedagogy and praxis -- Chapter 22. Social justice and constructivist grounded theory -- Chapter 23. Language learning and integration of adult Bhutanese refugees: An ethnographic study -- Chapter 24. Exposure and effect: An investigation into a culture of body pedagogies -- Chapter 25. Arts-based research in education: Becomings from a doctoral research perspective -- Chapter 26. Silent, invisible and under-supported? An autoethnographic journey through the valley of the shadow of youth mental health in Australia -- Part E: Emerging Theories -- Chapter 27. Emergent theory and/as doctoral research -- Chapter 28. The way that things are done around here: An investigation into the organisational and social structures that contribute to structural power within the Australian swim coach education pathway -- Chapter 29. Are we all foodies now? An ethnographic exploration of food experience in primary schools -- Chapter 30. Governing Civil Society: How literacy, education and security were brought together -- Chapter 31. From developing child to competent learner: A genealogical study of the kindergarten child and progressive reform in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Chapter 32. Feeling-thinking for a feminist participatory visual ethnography -- Chapter 33. Girls' tales: experiences of schooling: making a re/active documentary film.-Chapter 34. Intricacies of professional learning in health care: The case of supporting self-management in paediatric diabetes -- Chapter 35. Understanding new spaces and relations of global governance in education: The OECD's PISA for schools -- Chapter 36. Now, then, when: working with qualitative longitudinal research to study pathways and futures in globalising times -- Chapter 37. Being chosen and performing choice: Young people engaging in imaginative and constrained secondary school practices in Vancouver, BC, Canada -- Chapter 38. Research secrets, research 'messiness' and the complexity of knowing: behind the thesis and the content's page -- Part F: Meta-Analysis -- Chapter 39. Reflections on methodological issues -- Chapter 40. Lessons learnt about structuring the thesis and implications for practice.