Building Individual Expertise in Doctoral Studies the Significance of Everyday Experiences and Changing Contexts

AbstractHigh expectations for skills are directed at doctors and doctoral students in the fast changing global time. Innovative solutions to the genuine problems of society are expected of the new doctors. The expectations for skills that accumulate through the everyday experiences and different contexts, and the requirements for experts in working life are experienced as partially conflicting by the doctoral students themselves. The expertise of doctoral students is individual – it forms in the long term in different everyday contexts and is built from several individual elements. The experiences and expertise of doctoral students forms differently in different contexts. The everyday experiences and contexts are significant for forming the expertise, especially for the female doctoral students with a family