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Description - Effective Postgraduate Supervision: Improving the Student/Supervisor Relationship by Adrian Eley

  • What kind of problems are encountered while undertaking postgraduate study?
  • How are these problems best avoided or resolved?
  • How can the student/supervisor relationship be improved?
This practical guide is based on a series of successful workshops on postgraduate supervision and presents the most frequently encountered difficulties in the student/supervisor relationship. Detailed but concise case studies offer realistic solutions to the thirty issues discussed, including:
  • Conflict
  • Culture
  • Distance
  • Funding
  • Isolation
  • Language
  • Management
  • Plagiarism
  • Priority
  • Time
  • Transfer
  • Write-up
Each case study raises important questions to generate discussion, and suggests solutions and preventative measures. The book also includes a section that shows how the case studies can be used in a teaching workshop setting.

Effective Postgraduate Supervision is essential reading for supervisors of postgraduate degrees including those at masters and doctoral level as well as prospective and current postgraduate research students.

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