Cecile Badenhorst MA (UBC), PhD (Queen’s) is an Associate Professor in the Adult Education/Post-Secondary program in the Faculty of Education at Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada. As a researcher, she has conducted research and published in the areas of doctoral education, doctoral writing, graduate writing, thesis/publication writing pedagogies, academic literacies and faculty writing. She engages in qualitative, arts-based and post-structural research methodologies. She has written three books in the area of graduate student writing: Research Writing (2007), Dissertation Writing (2008) and Productive Writing (2010). She is a co-editor of Inspiration and Innovation in teaching and teacher education (Lexington Books, 2013) and Research literacies and writing pedagogies for Masters and Doctoral writers (Brill, 2016). In 2018, she co-edited a special issue of the Canadian Journal for Studies in Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie on Play, visual strategies & innovative approaches to graduate writing.