Preface -- 1. Introduction: Traversing the terrain of a research (not quite) field: what gets in the way and what helps us on our way; Maria Xypaki, Maria Angelica Mejia-Caceres, Eleni Sinakou, Ailim Schwambach -- 2. Deep Valleys, Dense Swamps, and Unhealthily High Levels of Stress – Auto- Ethnographic Narratives from a Life-World of a PhD-Student; Margaretha Häggström -- 3. The process of doctoral studies as a research journey in a sea of diverse feelings and experiences; María Angélica Mejía-Cáceres -- 4. Finding My Own Voice Whilst Researching Students’ Voices: Experiences of a PhD investigating experiences of adolescents with education for sustainability; Ian Ayre -- 5. Searching for a center of gravity among different cultural, educational and epistemological contexts during my doctoral studies; Eleni Sinakou -- 6. Challenges and trips – on the ups and downs of my PhD experience; Christiana Glettler -- 7. Reconsidering ESD Scholarship; Maria Xypaki -- 8. Discovering environmental literacy: PhD reflections about my own training process; Olaya Alvarez-Garcia -- 9. Slog through Thoughts and Find the Right Way with Candle Light: Ph.D.; Şule Alici -- 10. From the seed to the tree; Ailim Schwambach -- 11. Believing Your Research Can Change the World Helps; Peter Ogudoro -- 12. Conclusion: An Afterword for thinking forwards; Elsa Lee.

This book brings together the diverse narratives of researchers’ personalized stories about the process of doing doctoral research (PhD) in the field of Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) and about the life after the completion of such life-forming experience. The narratives go beyond the academic to discuss the different ways in which doctoral study in the field of environmental and sustainability education is experienced at the personal and professional level. Contributors are located in different countries in Europe, Australasia and Latin America. The different countries that the authors write from matters because it contextualizes both the process of studying environmental and sustainability education and the way in which this is experienced at a time when the world has become increasingly conscientized towards environmental challenges. As such the book is appreciated by established and emerging scholars in this field and in related fields around the world. Readers are presented with a comprehensive volume ideal for aspiring ESE researchers, supervisors, policy-makers and practitioners.