[-empyre-] Research in Practice, week three, January 21-28

[Simon Biggs]

A student might be OK with inadequate supervision but it would, at the very least, make their life a lot harder. We've talked a lot about the demands of the PhD on the student but not about how it makes demands on supervisors and whether, just as with students, they are supervising the right PhDs. One of the biggest problems that might emerge in a PhD is a mis-match between what a particular supervisor might think a PhD is and an examiner's ideas on that. If they do not agree then the student is caught in the middle. Not a good place to be. A student could respond to this creatively and perhaps satisfy both supervisor and examiner but you know what they say about not being able to please all the people all the time.

best

Simon


On 26 Jan 2013, at 02:18, Phi Shu wrote:

>  With the kind of creative freedom an open ended PhD offers, there is a certain responsibility, you have to be on top of your game, it's very easy to lose your way, but then again, its the supervisor's job to make sure that doesn't happen. 


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