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How to be a crappy supervisor (or: how to confuse, depress and dumb-down your students)

Reblogged from Nick Hopwood:

After my blog post ’10 ways to annoy your supervisors’ I was contacted by a doctoral student who felt that an accompanying view from the other side could, and should, be expressed. I’m delighted to post her response. I’m particularly pleased by her direct challenge to my point about asking for permission before talking to others. I agree with her, as well as with my original point (yup, I’m human, so I can live quite comfortably with contradictions).

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Does your doctoral program encourage you to set out expectations for the relationship between candidate and supervisor?




Original: http://fabricationnation.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/how-to-be-a-crappy-supervisor-or-how-to-confuse-depress-and-dumb-down-your-students/
By: SheriO
Posted: June 3, 2013, 1:20 pm