Introduction.- Part I Insights from doctoral scholars.- 1 Through and towards an interdisciplinary research community: Navigating academia as a lone doctoral scholar.- 2 Mapping the Learning Opportunities of the Hidden Curriculum for International Doctoral Scholars in Japan.- 3 Peer-mentoring: A potential route to researcher independence.- 4 'Settle down' or 'Return overseas'? A reflexive narrative of an international Chinese doctoral scholar's (re)adjustment experiences in China.- 5 'It is a nice way to end the week': Journal club as an authentic and safe learning space.- Part II Insights from doctoral supervisors.- 6 Facilitating Researcher Independence through Supervision as Dialogue.- 7 Creative Supervising / Supervising for creativity: Exploring the hidden dimensions of creativity in doctoral supervision.- 8 Developing a disposition for harnessing the hidden curriculum en route to becoming independent researchers: The role of doctoral supervisors.- 9 The interstitial doctoral life of #thesisthinkers: When the hidden curriculum might be all there is....- Part III Insights from researcher developers.- 10 The Dance of Authenticity and Multiple Ways of Doing: Defining a Pedagogy for accessing the Hidden Curriculum in Doctoral Education and developing Researcher Independence.- 11 How humour can support researcher independence.- 12 Finding Confidence in Writing: Doctoral Writing Groups.- 13 Doctoral Intelligence Mechanisms to Illuminate Development Strategies in the Hidden Curriculum.- 14 Enabling part time doctoral scholars to develop effective support villages.- Part IV Insights from institutional leaders.- 15 Echo-locating a personalised route to independence.- 16 Decolonising doctoral education: sociology of emergences?.- 17 Midwifing the New: Institutional Leadership for Doctoral Education.- 18 Nested leadership in research education.- Part V Insights on doctoral education beyond academia.- 19 Putting the 'extra' in extracurricular: Why going off-script is important for life after the doctorate.- 20 The hidden meanings of 'independent research(er)'.- 21 Preparing for the world outside academia: Avoiding organisational culture shock.- 22 Changing career pathways: Making visible the employment destinations and non-academic contributions of doctoral scholars.- Conclusion.