The audit trail

Record keeping is fundamental to research – and to research supervision.  Supervisors of...

Students ask:  What should I do when I haven’t made any progress? I don’t want to wast...

Students ask:  What is a case study?  One of the ironies of academia that, in a realm...

Students ask:  How can I explain all of my research in two minutes? Many conferences have ...

Taking an awkward or difficult conversation with a student out of the office and walking around outs...

Students ask:  How do you know something (i.e., your research, your paper, your dissertati...

Students ask:  How can I handle awkward conversations with my supervisors?  How ...

Students ask:  What should I do when I keep working and working, but I don’t seem to get anyw...

‘Tough love’ is concept borrowed from parenting.  In the context of supervision, it’...

Academics tend to dislike rules set by other people, and they tend to loathe bureaucracy (even while...

Students ask:  Why won’t my supervisors listen to me? One of the most useful words in the sup...