Participation as a form of socialisation how a research team can support PhD students in their academic path

The dynamics related to how PhD students are progressively integrated into their own disciplinary community, and how they learn the academic profession, represent an underexplored topic in the panorama of higher education studies, especially when considering in-depth investigations of specific institutional settings. Learning the academic profession is a complex and long process, and the integration of a researcher into the disciplinary community represents only its last step.The concept of ‘socialisation’ depicts this path. In this chapter, we will focus on socialisation: we will present a study aimed at showing how socialisation unfolds in the daily life of PhD students belonging to the same research team.