Navigating Doctoral Students’ Dual-Track Academic Socialisation in Japan

Doctoral students learn the skills, attitudes, and knowledge necessary for success in their professional scholarly community. In the academic socialisation process within an internationalising academia, doctoral students in Japan are encouraged to integrate into both local and international scholarly communities, which seem mutually disconnected to them. Two doctoral students and their supervisor engaged in collaborative dialogue to elicit relevant narratives concerning doctoral ‘dual-track’ academic socialisation processes in Japan. This article illustrates why the students found this dual-track socialisation challenging and the advisor’s dilemma in socialising the students in an international community in the Japanese context.