Questions tagged [supervision]
Questions relating to academic supervision, which is broadly defined as the supervisory relationship between advisors and their students.
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Covering application fees for peer review, when your university declines to proceed, but expert in the field consider the work excellent
Situation - I produced a MSc thesis in applied data science (I mean, using data science but applied on a certain domain X), which was A-graded. An expert in the field X said it is excellent and worthy ...
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How can I avoid this unproductive pattern with my PhD supervisor?
I’m currently a PhD student in electrical engineering in the US, and I changed supervisors after the end of my first year as a PhD student. There were several reasons for this, but the main one was ...
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What steps should I take if I haven't received responses from potential supervisors?
I am in the process of applying for the M.Sc. Research program at universities in New Zealand. My application will not be assessed unless I secure a supervisor. Despite reaching out to three potential ...
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Supervisor refuses to be included as a co-author in PhD student papers?
As title entails, my PhD supervisor refuses to be included in all of my research papers as she did not take part in the writing process. However, since day one, she has been giving me ideas and ...
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How to choose my first PhD students
I have recently started a position as assistant professor at a Chinese-British university. Now I am starting to get first requests from interested students who work on topics that are similar to mine ...
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Advice for PhD: Number of Applications (Humanities)
I am currently a postgraduate whose degree is near completion, and I would like to apply for a PhD in the United Kingdom. I am a first generation student which means that I have limited awareness of ...
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I do not receive proper support from my PhD advisor
I have started my fully-funded-PhD for about 6 months in North America. When I applied professor promised me that he was going to provide me with the funding. Yet, I have not received any detailed ...
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How do I support my advisor on his most busy weeks?
I'm a postdoc at a US university and I have a truly wonderful research advisor. Sometimes, during our regular meetings, I find out that things are particularly tough for my advisor this week. The ...
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Decline PhD offer gracefully due to low salary
I applied and got an offer at a graduate school. Before the confirmation deadline I got an offer in industry and I accepted it.
The PhD position had extremely low salary, which would barely support my ...
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Statistics on the number of PhD/postdoc by Professor across fields/universities/countries?
I am wondering whether there are some available sources for statistics on the average number of PhD students and postdocs by Professor/supervisor across different fields, universities or countries?
I ...
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PhD funding Cambridge after supervisor contact
I contacted a potential supervisor for a PhD at the University of Cambridge via email (PhD was advertised on find a PhD). Surprisingly, the supervisor showed interest in me even after I had sent my CV ...
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After switching PhD supervisor, can I get credit for the work I did?
My PhD supervisor abandoned me after 1 year. I did a massive amount of work, but now cannot continue working on that project anymore.
The supervisor cut all ties with me and there is no turning back, ...
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Can my supervisor publish a relevant work to my PhD without citing my published dissertation?
I was a PhD student at an american university, and I graduated last year. After graduation, there are few papers that were sent for publications before my graduation. Because of an authorship dispute ...
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Feeling stressed and incapable at the beginning of my MSc, how can I handle that?
I just admitted and enrolled in a thesis-based master of applied science program in electrical engineering a month ago.
My supervisor sends me different papers sometime to read and I also schedule ...
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masters thesis supervisor hands-on importance?
TLDR: how important is having a hands-on supervisor for my masters thesis?
I recently started a one-year MA in sociology at a large uni in Europe (after having attended a SLAC for undergrad).
My ...
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Can my former RA use my idea to publish a paper?
I partnered with my former professor to establish a social research-based organization. We had a plan to pursue a federal grant. In pursuit of the grant, we brought some volunteer RAs on board to help ...
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Ethically correct way to involve student in research and publication
My collaborator has a PhD student (just starting their 2nd year) who as part of their project runs computer simulations, as directed by their supervisor. These brought up a result that is (1) ...
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What are/were the most helpful 'things' your supervisor, mentor, university, other staff did to help you complete your PhD?
I am currently applying for a position similar to an assistant prof where I will have the responsibility to supervise two PhD students. For this application I am required to provide a "...
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If I find an error in my archived doctoral thesis, should I immediately tell my advisor or wait to see if it will be published before doing so?
I recently found a mistake in my thesis while submitting a postdoc application. I realized that I messed up my reaction rate quantification of one protein where I assigned too large of an intensity ...
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Should I do a second master to increase my chance of getting into a PhD program? [duplicate]
In my country (France), your first and second year of your Master are two different program. My second year of Master was in a remote program (the exams were not remote).
After 20ish applications, I ...
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Advice on Transitioning from Master's to PhD in the Same Research Group
I am a master's student in theoretical physics currently in my final semester in Germany. My master's thesis is already underway, and I aim to complete it by April next year. Recently, my partner and ...
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I am a PhD researcher , I have access to equipment in my lab, can I use the facilities to test my own samples that are not part of my project
I am working at some lab in xyz, I have been granted access to solid state NMR,SEM,TEM. I have recently collaborated with researchers who don't have these facilities. They want me to collaborate by ...
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Does prestige matter for a masters thesis? Need help to choose a thesis
I'm a master student in a very good university in the EU majoring in biomedicine/biology. I'm leaning towards doing a PhD after my masters, but either way eventually I will go into industry (whether I ...
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Reasonable to ask 2nd supervisor for more involvement?
Next week, I will be meeting with both my supervisors (and the PhD course director) to discuss coming back to the PhD after a break.
This, I think, is a good chance to voice a variety of concerns. One ...
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Second PhD after a not successful PhD and not being trained enough by professor [duplicate]
It is my fifth year of graduate studies in chemistry. I haven't had enough training from my professor and I don't have enough confidence to do even a post-doc. It is so close to my graduation, that I ...
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What level of questions and guidance are appropriate for a research assistant?
I recently graduated from my undergraduate studies in May. As soon as I graduated, I began a job as a research assistant at my university. This was mainly to continue projects that I had yet to finish ...
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How to deal with bad undergrad researchers
I am a grad student in the life sciences. I have to mentor several undergrad students. One student in particular is just so bad and is always getting confused with protocols. He can't follow a ...
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How to keep a door open without too much commitment in PhD applications
I am looking for a PhD/job position. I sent an email to a group doing things potentially aligned with my interests. I had an interview with them and I am not enthusiastic about the project. I could ...
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Response time on a research proposal
I sent an inquiry for a PhD position at a German university and she responded on the 30th of July to submit a research proposal (without a deadline). I sent her the paper on the 19th of August. Do you ...
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How can I learn to trust the Ph.D program course of study again?
I am a fourth year neurodivergent doctoral candidate with an accepted Master's (both in Experimental Psychology) and have posted a decent amount on here. Hopefully, this post means that I can stop ...
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How usual is it for master students to take part in work that has nothing to do with their thesis?
I'm doing my master's thesis in a research group in Germany (experimental physics). The group is pretty big, there are multiple experimental setups at the moment, that are maintained by different ...
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PhD Supervisor using my fundings?
I'm in the middle of my Ph.D., and I came to the realization that my supervisor might be doing something unethical (not illegal thought).
I have a large fund to cover expenses related to training and ...
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How to handle potentially gaslighting and very confusing PhD advisor?
I’m a new PhD student (3 months in) of a niche area, and I now feel like my supervisor (f, 56) has been constantly gaslighting me. English is not my first language and this is a really confusing ...
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What are some effective strategies for successfully advising a part-time Ph.D. student in Engineering?
I have experience of working with a few full-time students, but I am now faced with the prospect of advising a part-time student for the first time. To gain insights into this unique scenario, I ...
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How to respond to a professor not happy with me
I am in the final year of my bachelor and only need to pass one last course to complete my bachelor. The thing is I failed this course this year. Which means I have to continue for a whole other year ...
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My supervisor suddenly told me not to submit to the top conference
As a newcomer to research I'd like to ask a question about submitting papers to conferences. My supervisor has been telling me before that my project can be submitted to the top conference and she's ...
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No interest in the field, no interest in academia, don't want to please supervisors, time to leave PhD?
TLDR: zero interest in the topic, bad relationships with supervisors and colleagues, I think I'm not suitable for this, thus, I must leave.
Hello all, I would like to ask for some advice from people ...
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Should I email the same professor about supervision this year, If I failed in his interview previous year
I had the opportunity to interview with a professor and two of his PhD students for potential supervision in the mm-wave circuits group. Unfortunately, during the initial interview, which focused on ...
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Should I explain reason to a professor whom I asked fr supervision earlier, but joined PhD for another professor?
This is a continuation of a question I asked a year ago.
My masters supervisor contacted me to starting new work, and I returend to my institute to start my PhD.
I am feeling a bit confused if I ...
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How to indicate on a paper that my contribution was small?
My group is about to publish a research paper with another group. We mostly only provide funding and general oversight. It is important that me and a few colleagues are noted as authors on the paper, ...
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Should i leave the lab i am in even though i like the science but my pi disrespect me?
I am a freshman. I have been in a lab but I felt that I am not interested in science, so left it. in my spring semester, I joined another lab, and I was pretty interested in the science I am working ...
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Supervisor is not reading unpublished manuscript
I created a rather controversial review of empirical data for my PhD thesis. Initially, my supervisor was very discouraging regarding this review, to the point of threatening me to end my PhD.
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Can a professor advise a Ph.D. student while taking extended leave (one year without pay) from a university in the USA [closed]
My advisor is planning to take a one-year leave for personal reasons. He will be returning to his home country, and the leave will be without pay. I am currently in my second year as a Ph.D. student. ...
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Project progress massively impacted and supervisor leaving university [closed]
I am a funded PhD student in the U.K working on a practise based project within the field of design, although it is at heart a multidisciplinary project.
I am currently 2.5 years in to my 3.5 year ...
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Could Ph.D. students assist Ph.D. students?
For a finishing Ph.D. student, is it well common for them to assist other Ph.D. students technically?
What other lab activities could the finishing Ph.D. students be involved in aside from lecturing?
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Dealing with Tech Debt as a Postdoc
I’m in the applied maths field and I consider myself better at math than coding.
At some point during my first year as a postdoc, my supervisor told me, “No, you cannot use package A anymore, but use ...
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Is it okay to debug for student?
I am an assistant professor at an R1 university. I am advising an undergraduate student whose major is mechanical engineering. He tried really hard but cannot figure out how to do a python code (~300 ...
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Can I make complaint against my supervisor who kept me working in non-research work in his lab with NO SALARY
I recently graduated with a PhD in Fall 2022. In my PhD study, I published 7 papers in peer review journals and conferences. In summer semester of 2022, my PhD supervisor stopped my fund few days ...
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Collaborators have asked me to oversee another PhD student’s work, how to proceed?
A newer PhD student in my lab has begun conducting research very similar to mine. We are both working on a large body of research, and although the projects are similar, their research will ultimately ...
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Is it okay to contact supervisors from other universities for positions/funding after accepting another offer?
One supervisor of a university accepted me as a student and ensured me funding. I accepted this offer.
Is it ok to still contact and seek funding from supervisors of other universities?
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