Questions related to research/thesis supervisors and co-supervisors; their roles, duties and responsibilities.
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Should I tell my supervisor that I will consult someone else?
I need an specific advice on a specific area (not the main one) in my PhD research (e.g. is it a good idea to include the factor x in the review and analysis of the topic y?).
As far as I know, my ...
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What to do when emails to a potential advisor are not replied?
I asked a potential advisor for possible research projects but I haven't received a reply.
What is the appropriate thing to do?
Reply with my previous mail quoted, and say something like I having ...
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How often do you email a supervisor?
I'm doing a PhD related to my supervisor's research area. Sometimes, I think about problems that I do not immediately know the answer to. Naturally, I come to Stack Exchange and other forums and ask ...
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Shrink the paper or pay for extra page charges?
A PhD student has started his research about two year ago by research scholarship from university. His supervisor won a huge grant on a topic very close to his research project couple of months ...
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Supervised self-study
Imagine an education model in which teacher/supervisor/mentor does not teach the syllabus to students. Instead, just pushing them towards key topics, and students must study by themselves. The teacher ...
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What is the minimum one should expect from the day-to-day supervisor?
What minimal responsibilities can a student expect from their day-to-day supervisor?
In my institute, we usually have the head of the institute as the formal supervisor, followed by another ...
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Email contact author on a paper
I am reading a paper and have questions about the details of the procedure described. I have read other papers by the same team but they don't explain too much about that procedure anyway. I think it ...
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Informing my supervisor of discrepancy in the results
I am working on my MPhys thesis, on a certain dataset. Part of this dataset has been analyzed by my current supervisor during his PhD, with published results. He asked me to expand on that work by ...
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Supervisor keeps “showstopping” defense with nit-picky grammar errors
My supervisor keeps on delaying and postponing my defense date, taking long periods of time between revisions (1 month of "revision" where the document is in his hands). He has done this 2 times ...
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What is the academic approach when the supervisor attacks student's religion?
What is the academic approach when your supervisor goes off-topic? In other words, what is the academic reaction for a PhD student when his supervisor starts attacking the student's religion?
I ...
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What do co-supervisors get out of a PhD?
PhD supervisors usually get paid to supervise. They also have the prestige of having lots of students under their belt.
It's common to also have co-supervisor (I think it's mandatory in many fields, ...
