This Is Me: Narrative Accounts of Postgraduate Learning Journeys

This paper presents the findings of a small-scale project exploring postgraduate students’ experiences as learners. As lecturers on a small, work-based, masters-level programme, we used arts-based methods and short interviews to trace experiences of achievement, failure and personal development as articulated by recent graduates of the programme. Although there is a stated focus on meeting requirements for professional registration, students enter the programme for varied personal reasons and from wide-ranging educational backgrounds. Looking back on the learning journey, what do graduates identify as factors that sustained their academic resilience and shaped their learner identities