Timeline for How to manage inconsistent behaviour and communication from a supervisor?
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| Dec 27, 2023 at 13:01 | comment | added | user11121361 | @Tom that is a valid concern - I know a student who tolerated an unstable and useless supervisor for the first few months of PhD until he decided to change his supervisor, the first thing his review panel said was "why didn't you tell anyone earlier?" (but they were supportive and he did move to a different lab). Perhaps it pays off to have a casual chat with a member of the review panel, at least to make them aware but hopefully to get good advice, especially if they were on the panel of the previous student(s) from your lab and know your supervisor from other student's perspective. | |
| Dec 27, 2023 at 12:50 | vote | accept | user11121361 | ||
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| Dec 24, 2023 at 17:53 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | The answer is good and could be improved by including suggestion to document everything. This is almost obvious, and other answers have that, too, but it would make it more self-contained. | |
| Dec 23, 2023 at 16:03 | comment | added | Tom | I think ''letting things slide'' is not the way forward in this situation. I tried this before and the problem just got worse until I actually did something about it and reported my supervisor to someone higher up who was in charge of well-being of PhD students. You can let these things go a few times but then you do have to actually do something about it. | |
| Dec 23, 2023 at 13:38 | history | edited | Buffy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 22, 2023 at 12:08 | comment | added | Stef | In theory your answer sounds great, but when I think back about my own PhD, one of the main reasons it went so terribly bad is because I let things slide too long before realising my supervisor did in fact not have a "short term issue". | |
| Dec 21, 2023 at 19:29 | history | answered | Buffy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |