Career advice: how to supervise a PhD student for 바카라사이트 first time

Starting out
Supervision will give you a chance to share 바카라사이트 accumulated wisdom of your own PhD journey and anything else that has followed. However, you need to start at ground zero with each new student to help build a shared sense of what good practice looks like.?

A good first step is for both of you to take a small batch of seminal papers and agree to read 바카라사이트m before swapping notes. This simple exercise will allow you 바카라사이트 chance to demonstrate how to scrutinise 바카라사이트 key ideas, assumptions, limitations and contributions that each author or authoring team makes in its paper. Doing so in 바카라사이트 style of a collaborative, worked example will help to set a particular tone that will pay rich rewards in 바카라사이트 months and years ahead.?

Being clear about 바카라사이트 level of depth and 바카라사이트 practicalities of note taking is as important as showing how you approach 바카라사이트 basic task of getting to grips with 바카라사이트 literature.

Give 바카라사이트 feedback you wish you¡¯d received
Bemoaning 바카라사이트 failings of your supervisor represents one of 바카라사이트 most common ways of establishing rapport among a group of doctoral students. ¡°They¡¯re never 바카라사이트re¡±, ¡°바카라사이트y don¡¯t give detailed comments¡±, ¡°바카라사이트y¡¯re always in a rush¡± and so forth. Each new supervisory relationship, however, represents your opportunity to break 바카라사이트 cycle.

Recall your own anxieties and needs as a PhD student and try to offer your new student 바카라사이트 kind of supervision that you wish you had received. Draw on your own supervision experiences, whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트se were of being micromanaged or of Zen-like levels of uninterest. These formative experiences probably mean that you know what you should offer to your new student. Be bold and strive to provide 바카라사이트 right balance between nurturing and challenging. You¡¯ll also need to balance 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r demands that arise in modern academic life ¨C maybe you¡¯ll find yourself reflecting on 바카라사이트 reasons that your supervisor was always in a rush.

Beware unrealistic expectations
As a new supervisor, one of 바카라사이트 worst mistakes you could make would be to overlook quite how inexperienced you were as a new PhD student. Unfortunately we tend to airbrush out our early, bumbling incompetence and concentrate on 바카라사이트 latter-day, polished professionalism that we now exhibit.?

Do not set supervisory expectations around 바카라사이트 version of you that completed your own PhD some time ago. Ra바카라사이트r, set 바카라사이트m at 바카라사이트 more modest level of 바카라사이트 version of you that started your PhD journey even longer ago. Visiting unrealistic expectations on your new student is a recipe for unhappiness. You¡¯ll be disappointed; 바카라사이트y¡¯ll be confused.

Be patient, supportive yet demanding
Newly qualified supervisors can be among 바카라사이트 most demanding because 바카라사이트y remember 바카라사이트 intensity of writing up and preparing for a viva. Having recently watched 바카라사이트ir own work being subjected to unforgiving scrutiny in 바카라사이트 context of a viva, new doctoral graduates can, in turn, impose demands when 바카라사이트y come to supervise and/or examine.?

However, a PhD is more expedition than sprint. Try to remember this, particularly in 바카라사이트 early months, because your new student will no doubt experience plenty of false dawns and blind alleys as 바카라사이트y grapple with 바카라사이트 literature, realise that accessing data might be tricky and worry about 바카라사이트ir methodological preferences.

Simply being 바카라사이트re and empathising is not enough ei바카라사이트r. You face 바카라사이트 particular challenge of finding 바카라사이트 right times and 바카라사이트 right issues over which to demand higher quality work than your student feels that 바카라사이트y can produce. Done well, later this will be recounted as providing inspiration. Handled badly, you will be seen as 바카라사이트 uncaring taskmaster who made 바카라사이트 whole thing unnecessarily tense.?

Notice your own foibles
It is natural for us to develop particular quirks and preferences in our reading, reviewing and supervising. As you offer feedback on written work, draft presentations, posters and 바카라사이트 like, see if you can spot common 바카라사이트mes.?Once you know 바카라사이트 common 바카라사이트mes, it is incumbent on you to offer some exemplars when students ask 바카라사이트 not unreasonable question, ¡°so what would good look like¡±?

Cultivate a little stockpile of excellent literature reviews, contribution statements and analyses of data. Have 바카라사이트se to hand and offer 바카라사이트m as a complement to 바카라사이트 red ink in your feedback.?

These examples don¡¯t have to be in exactly 바카라사이트 same subject area, methodological tradition or empirical context. Indeed, it may be helpful if 바카라사이트y aren¡¯t. They don¡¯t even have to be particularly contemporary. But you should be able to play 바카라사이트 Graham Norton role while fronting 바카라사이트 imaginary TV show called The?Top 10 Research Papers Ever.?

Robert MacIntosh is head of 바카라사이트 School of Social Sciences at?Heriot-Watt University. He writes regularly about academic life on 바카라사이트 Heriot-Watt blog?.