Timeline for What can grad chairs/departments do to help senior PhD students under a toxic advisor?
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| Aug 24, 2022 at 13:42 | vote | accept | anon_de | ||
| Aug 24, 2022 at 8:02 | answer | added | Karel Macek | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 23, 2022 at 21:02 | comment | added | Prof. Santa Claus | @GregMartin Did I say anything about excusing the said behaviors? All I said was that both sides have issues. There are many ways in which these issues manifest themselves. | |
| Aug 23, 2022 at 17:17 | comment | added | Greg Martin | @VitaminE: personal issues can excuse some missed meetings or lack of productivity (if the supervisor owns up to the problems this causes their students). Personal issues absolutely do not excuse toxic behaviour, belittling/abusing others, and taking credit for their ideas. | |
| Aug 23, 2022 at 13:36 | answer | added | user198461 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 23, 2022 at 13:30 | answer | added | Crazymoomin | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 23, 2022 at 13:22 | comment | added | Robin | If your area is cross discipline, or you can think of another 'expert' that can be brought into the process, get a new person into your supervisor team. I was stuck with two very competent mathematicians and felt like I had a whole year of stall. I got an electronic engineer into my supervisor team and suddenly the whole process flew along. Coming from an Engineering background I did not realize that people in the math dept would know nothing of even basic electronics. | |
| Aug 23, 2022 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1561956402331017216 | ||
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| Aug 22, 2022 at 21:31 | history | edited | anon_de | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 22, 2022 at 21:21 | comment | added | Prof. Santa Claus | @JochenGlueck there is always two sides to the story. I have students who have not made any progress for many years nor made any effort to help themselves. I have put out fires and had hoped that another 'fire' has been put out but to my horror it has not. This becomes critical when there are other stackholders, e.g., industry partners, on a project or a student is at risk of not graduating. My point is -- understand the cause of the supervisor's behavior and then maybe the student can solve it. | |
| Aug 22, 2022 at 21:04 | comment | added | Jochen Glueck | @VitaminE: I can't help it but become somewhat sarcastic after reading your comment. This site is full of advice to numerous PhD students that bad phases during a PhD are common, that they need to focus on their work, that they should work hard, that they need to learn to behave professionally... But when a PhD advisor goes rogue, we should simply be empathic about the "fires" they might or might not be fighting all night? | |
| Aug 22, 2022 at 20:27 | answer | added | Buffy | timeline score: 18 | |
| Aug 22, 2022 at 20:08 | comment | added | anon_de | Sure, I'm not unsympathetic to the pressures that many profs are under, but I think 1) it is unprofessional to take personal issues or professional 'fires' out on students rather than taking time off or going to therapy. If you had a student who behaved like this to you or to other students, would you still be as sympathetic? and 2) this is directly affecting my graduation timeline and my career and personal goals. I have tried to work towards a constructive solution with him, but this is breaking down, so I am looking at other options. | |
| Aug 22, 2022 at 19:59 | comment | added | Prof. Santa Claus | Sounds like your supervisor has personal issues to battle with or is overloaded. He may be under immense pressure from somewhere else. Refusing to provide feedback quickly, coming in late, etc.. or you 'working' harder than him does not mean your supervisor is slacking off. He may be busy putting out other 'fires' all night! | |
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| S Aug 22, 2022 at 17:18 | history | asked | anon_de | CC BY-SA 4.0 |