SERIES ON SUPERVISION, PART III – The Inbetweens, Episode 45

• Guests: Erwin Dekker (George Mason University), Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak (The American University of Paris), Pedro G. Duarte (Insper), Steven Medema (Duke University), Marianne Johnson (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh)
• Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne)

Based on almost 2 years of interviews with current and former PhD students, supervisors along with lots and lots of conversations on supervision, I offer you a series of episodes on supervision.

In the first episode, I explore a series of critical “don’ts” that both PhD students and their supervisors should be aware of to ensure a healthier, more productive PhD journey. In the following episode, I offer lots of solutions or rather the dos of supervision. This episode covers all the cases where it’s not clear what the best solution is, or the solution is rather different depending on context: I am calling them the in-betweens. In a fourth episode I will be talking to a sort of PhD coach, who has lots of experience with supervising and thinking about supervision. A final short episode will offer us a list of 10 key things that supervisors and PhD students need – the 10 commandments of supervision, if you will.

The Inbetween Cases of Supervision:

1. Providing Space and Freedom
2. Personalising Supervision and Adapting to Each Student
3. Handling Breakdowns in the Supervisor-Student Relationship
4. Managing Uncertainty and Redirection in Research
5. Supporting Students Through Confusion and Uncertainty
6. Broader Perspectives for Academia

Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music): Evolution by AudioCoffee — https://freesound.org/s/704874/ — License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0