'Courageous Research is both a resource book and a snapshot of the contemporary state of the PhD in the human sciences and the creative arts. There are eight chapters by eight students who have completed PhDs that are constructed against the grain.' ... The students include ' ... Doris Brett [who] writes eloquently of the various strands of analytical, autobiographical and creative writing that contributed to her strangely-structured and later controversial book, Eating the Underworld. (Random House 2001).' (Kevin Brophy 'Now for the Genetically Modified PhD' a review of Courageous Research published in TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs vol. 8 no. 1 April 2004)
