Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or formaAdapt — remix, transform, and build upon the materialAttribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your useNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.Jenner, Lynn2017-02-212022-07-072017-02-212022-07-0720172017https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/19672In December 2014 I held six exploratory interviews with participants in the PhD programme at the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML), Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand to explore the relationships between the critical and creative components of the PhD as understood by these particular individuals. The interviews show a range of opinions regarding the purpose of the critical component, its form, the assessment of the critical and creative components and the degree structure.My aim for this research was to create a feedback loop of information about the critical/creative nexus from people who are members of the IIML community of practice. I hoped also to collect and share practical ideas from graduates, supervisors and examiners on how to work through or with the tensions surrounding the critical/creative nexus. In line with that, the purpose of this report is to make the whole content of the six interviews available so that readers can investigate issues which might be of particular interest to them.pdfen-NZhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Critical/creative nexusCreative Writing PhDreflective practicecommunity of practicecraft-focused researchresearch questioncritical componentwriterly idea of critical worklearner agencyText