Category Archives: supervision

taking the doctoral walk

Posted on April 20, 2015 by pat thomson

This is a guest post from Susan Gollifer, a doctoral researcher in education at The University of Iceland. Susan’s research looks at teachers and human rights curriculum. I am coming towards the end of a two-month Erasmus placement at a … Continue reading →

Posted in academic writing, reflection, reflexivity, supervision, supervisor, Susan Gollifer | Tagged academic writing, home and away, Pat Thomson, reflection, Susan Gollifer | 1 Comment

are we heading for a DIY PhD?

Posted on June 16, 2014 by pat thomson

This is an op-ed piece I’ve recently written. It’s still in press but I thought I might give it a little pre-publication outing here. The DIY theme is one I’m doing more work on right now. In the humanities and … Continue reading →

Posted in advice, doctoral pedagogies, pedagogy, supervision | Tagged Australian Universities Review, DIY PhD, Pat Thomson, supervision pedagogies | 12 Comments

supervision and feedback

Posted on April 14, 2014 by pat thomson

So this week there’s a bit of tweet humour about how US grad students might interpret feedback from faculty trained in the UK. If you haven’t seen it here’s a taste. They say “With the greatest respect”, the grad student … Continue reading →

Posted in academic writing, doctoral pedagogies, feedback, supervision | Tagged feedback, Liz Lerman, Pat Thomson, supervision | 5 Comments

troubleshooting research supervision

Posted on March 3, 2014 by pat thomson

This is a guest post by Catherine Flynn and Kerry Brydon, both social work academics at Monash University, Australia. We read with interest Rebecca Coles’ recent account of the challenges of research supervision, from the perspective of a PhD student. … Continue reading →

Posted in Flynn and Brydon, Kardushin, social work, supervision | Tagged Catherine Flynn, Kardushin, Kerry Brydon, social work, supervision | 8 Comments

why supervisions can be hard

Posted on February 20, 2014 by pat thomson

This post is from Rebecca Coles, a doctor-in-waiting at The University of Nottingham. She has recently handed in her thesis (yippee and well done), an ethnographic study examining what counts as ‘education’ at an independent ‘art house’ cinema. When I … Continue reading →

Posted in supervision | Tagged learning by talking, Pat Thomson, Rebecca Coles, supervision | 12 Comments

supervision and writing feedback/advice

Posted on January 30, 2014 by pat thomson

One of the biggest problems that supervisors face, when dealing with the writing that doctoral researchers do, is how to be helpful. It’s often much easier to spot a problem than it is to know how to provide strategies that … Continue reading →

Posted in academic writing, advice, Anthony Paré, feedback, supervision | Tagged academic writing, Pat Thomson, supervisor feedback | 7 Comments

supervision as an ethic of care

Posted on October 31, 2013 by pat thomson

I’ve been posting about how we learn to supervise. There have been three guest posts on the topic in addition to my own, and two of them – here and here – have focused on the pedagogic strategies used in … Continue reading →

Posted in encounter, ethics of care, I-thou, Martin Buber, modeling, Nell Noddings, practice, supervision | Tagged care, ethical practice, Martin Buber, Nell Noddings, Pat Thomson, supervision | 9 Comments

sadness and supervision

Posted on October 24, 2013 by pat thomson

My neighbours are moving. Their’s is not the only house up for sale in our street, there are three in just one block. It’s obviously the time of year when people sell. I’m going to miss the folk next door, … Continue reading →

Posted in emotional research, pedagogy, supervision | Tagged emotion, Pat Thomson, sadness, supervision | 7 Comments

learning to supervise: some personal turning points

Posted on October 21, 2013 by pat thomson

This is a guest post by Helen Colley, Professor of Lifelong Learning at the University of Huddersfield, where she is also Director of Graduate Education for the School of Education and Professional Development. Her personal research interests currently focus on … Continue reading →

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learning to supervise: from ‘taking on’ to ‘recruiting’ research students

Posted on October 14, 2013 by pat thomson

This is a guest post by Scott Eacott. Scott is associate professor of educational leadership in the Faculty of Education at the Australian Catholic University (North Sydney). His research focuses on educational leadership, management and administration, but he has a … Continue reading →