GenAI and doctoral research
Watch this space… Over the last few weeks and months I’ve been working with colleagues across my institute on drafting specific guidance […]
Category: Supervisors
Contradictory reviews
I recently received the most contradictory reviews I have ever seen. My co-authors and I had submitted a significant journal article to […]
Thematic analysis – a practical guide
I’ve spent much of the week reading Braun and Clarke’s book – Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide. It was something of a […]
The audit trail
Record keeping is fundamental to research – and to research supervision. Supervisors often resist student-record-keeping as mindless bureaucracy, but a clear audit trail […]
Walk-and-talk
Taking an awkward or difficult conversation with a student out of the office and walking around outside while you talk – the […]
Tough love
‘Tough love’ is concept borrowed from parenting. In the context of supervision, it’s the notion that part of caring about and supporting students […]
Regulations are tools
Academics tend to dislike rules set by other people, and they tend to loathe bureaucracy (even while inventing it). But regulations are unavoidable. […]