Career advice: how to supervise a PhD student for the.
When you are dealing with the supervisor in the course of writing your thesis, make sure you know what you are doing. You may not realize it but you get checked at all levels and at all the times, one wrong move may land you in a soup, which is why you are better off safe than sorry when it comes to dealing with the PhD supervisor.
A typical supervision normally involves: Checking your current progress - Your supervisor will want to know what you’ve done since. Reviewing work in progress - As you get further into your PhD you’ll begin to gather results. Setting future targets - Reflecting on what you’ve done will be an.
PhD vs undergrad feedback When you submitted essays as an undergraduate student, you will have received a grade and perhaps a few comments. If you scored, say, 90% on a piece of writing that would have been considered excellent, and you would not have had to revise it to make up for the lost 10%.
Communicating effectively with your PhD supervisor is one of the most important factors determining your happiness in graduate school. Having a bad relationship it’s not always your supervisor’s fault. You can dramatically improve the communication with your supervisor if you follow 3 simple steps.
The way to deal with people who are socially challenged (relatively most Profs) is to identify the commonalities and stick to them, such as your research. Do not stick your neck out to try to socialize or talk something different that they are not interested in. This will only make situation worse (with anyone).
As observed, a PhD student is expected to work well on his own. Not have you do all his work for him. I once had a student who was not even capable of basic freshman tasks and apparently earned their undergraduate degree by letting others do their work for them. I went to their supervisor and explained this, but nothing came of it.
There are many challenges inherent in the supervision of PhD students. This workshop, which is aimed at new, new to the UK and experienced supervisors, will give you an opportunity to explore different approaches to supervision and examine approaches to dealing with some of the more common challenges involved in the supervision process.
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This post is by Dr Alex Hope, a Lecturer in Sustainable Development and Project Management at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom and was originally post on his blog.Alex is also on Twitter where he tweets about sustainability, academia, PhD advice and life. I hope you will head on over there and check out what he has to say! I was awarded my PhD in January this year following a.
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This workshop is only open to PhD students in the School of Biological Sciences. This workshop is for 2nd and 3rd year PhD students. It will be taught by senior academic staff in your school who have a great deal of experience supervising and examining PhD theses, together with staff from the College Office.
