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Inger Mewburn (born 17 December 1970) is the Director of Research Training at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Mewburn is the creator of "The Thesis Whisperer," an internationally recognised, "indispensable" blog that focuses on the experiences of higher degree by research students; and has published a significant number of books, book chapters, and journal papers about academic identity, writing, and digital scholarship. She has a notable public scholar profile as "The Thesis Whisperer" on social media, and has been named as an "Australian social media influencer in higher education".

Mewburn is internationally renowned for her research and expert commentary on research student experiences (particularly with thesis-writing), research student supervision, and post-doctoral employment pathways.

Education
Born in Hobart, Tasmania, and raised in Melbourne, Victoria, Mewburn completed her schooling at Croydon High School in 1988.

Mewburn's undergraduate degree was from RMIT University and she was awarded her doctorate from the University of Melbourne in 2009 for her thesis, "Constructing Bodies: gesture speech and representation at work in Architecture classrooms". Her dissertation was awarded the John Grice Award for Best Thesis in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning.

Career
Mewburn was a Research Fellow at RMIT University from 2006-2012, and worked with research higher degree students and their supervisors as a research education and development scholar. Since 2013, Mewburn has been Director of Research Training at the Australian National University.

In 2010, Mewburn started The Thesis Whisperer blog. Her work on this blog, grounded in her academic research, has earned her global recognition as an expert on topics in doctoral education and academic cultures. She is frequently invited to work with cohorts of research students around the world. Mewburn regularly writes for and provides expert opinion on doctoral issues to peak publications and higher education forums such as Nature,  The Conversation, The Guardian, Times Higher Education, Campus Review, and the London School of Economics Impact Blog. She has mentored and supported the establishment of other scholarly development blogs, which are influenced by her successful model; these include the DoctoralWritingSIG blog and The Research Whisperer.

In 2020, Mewburn and her team launched the PostAc tool, a real-world instantiation of her research that aims to help research degree graduates find employment.

Awards and recognition

 * 2020: Special commendation for leadership, Australian Council of Graduate Research.
 * 2019: Admitted as Vitae Senior Research Developer Fellow.
 * 2017: Grant from the Discovery Translation Funds, Canberra Innovation Network, to develop the 'PostAc' application (AUD$150K).
 * 2017: Vice Chancellor’s award for innovation and excellence in service, Australian National University.
 * 2015: Grant from the Australian Commonwealth Department of Industry, Innovation and Science for "Tracking Trends in Industry Demand for Australia's Advanced Research Workforce: Pilot Study" (AUD$90K; with Will J. Grant).
 * 2014: Grant from the Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Skills and Employment for "INSIGNIA: An open badge system for research training and supervision at ANU" (AUD$40K).
 * 2010: John Grice Award for Best Thesis in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne.

Selected publications

 * Mewburn, Inger. Becoming an Academic: How to Get through Grad School and Beyond. Baltimore, USA: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. ISBN:978-1421428802.
 * Mewburn, Inger, Katherine Firth, and Shaun Lehmann. How to Fix Your Academic Writing Trouble: A Practical Guide. London, UK: London Open University Press, 2019. ISBN:978-0335243327.
 * Mewburn, Inger, and Pat Thomson. “Why Do Academics Blog? An Analysis of Audiences, Purposes and Challenges.” Studies in Higher Education 38, no. 8 (October 1, 2013): 1105–19. DOI:10.1080/03075079.2013.835624.
 * Barnacle, Robyn, and Inger Mewburn. “Learning Networks and the Journey of ‘Becoming Doctor.’” Studies in Higher Education 35, no. 4 (June 1, 2010): 433–44. DOI:10.1080/03075070903131214.