John Bear actually recommended Kennedy-Western?

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And, in many parts of the world a stringent requirement for PhD students is that they must publish their research progress as they work towards completion of their Doctorate. With such progress results always having to be peer reviewed by experts in the particular field of study.

Is this what you did? Where were your research articles published prior to earning the Ph.D.?

I think all this expert-worship is uncalled for. I have proof most markers/supervisors barely skipped through my papers when they read them.
Supervisors and markers are often -in their own words if not in reality- overworked and annoyed, if not lazy and incompetent, and you just represent another kink in their plan to go fishing, or to go addressing that GLBT committee that's in search of a spokesman to enter politics.
Most academics got there not out of that monomanic love of XIX century scholars who lived and dreamt their field, but after the sixfigures and the political claptrap.
And got there by going all-fours under many tables and by cutting many unethical and situational compromises.
The percentage of success I owe to markers and supervisors? ZERO.
How many books did three different supervisors suggest across several dissertation-size papers? Hear, hear...TWO.
Were those supervisors bad?
No, actually the very opposite, go figure.