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March 28, 2022March 28, 2022Supervisors

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 […]

November 8, 2021November 8, 2021Supervisors

Walk-and-talk

Taking an awkward or difficult conversation with a student out of the office and walking around outside while you talk – the […]

April 2, 2021July 1, 2021Supervisors

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 […]

February 5, 2021July 1, 2021Supervisors

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.   […]

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