SERIES ON SUPERVISION, PART I – The Don’ts of Supervision, Episode 43

Guests: Erwin Dekker (George Mason University), Charles Rose (PhD from King’s College London), Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak (The American University of Paris), Pedro G. Duarte (Insper), Ariane Dupont Kieffer (Université Paris 1), Luca Timponelli (Centre Walras Pareto, Unil), Justine Loulergue (PhD from Centre Walras Pareto, Unil), Elizaveta Burina (Université Paris 1) Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne) Based on almost 2 years of interviews with current and former PhD students and supervisors along with lots and lots of conversations on supervision, I offer you a series of episodes on supervision. In this first episode, I explore a series of critical “don’ts” that both PhD students and their supervisors should be aware of to ensure a healthier, more productive PhD journey. In the following episode, I will be offering up lots of solutions or rather the dos of supervision. Then there will be an episode on all the cases where it’s not clear what the best solution is, or the solution is rather different depending on context: I am calling them the in-betweens. In a fourth episode I will be talking to a sort of PhD coach, who has lots of experience with supervising and thinking about supervision. A final short episode will offer us a list of 10 key things that supervisors and PhD students need – the 10 commandments of supervision, if you will. The Don’ts of Supervision Failing to Recognise Personal Struggles Poor Communication & Lack of Support Exposing PhD students to Toxic or Overbearing Environments Unrealistic Expectations & Rigid Mindsets Supervising Too Many PhD Students Lack of Flexibility in Supervision Lack of Time Management and Structure Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music): Education upbeat positive (short ver.), Awakening (loop ver.3) and Dreamy Day (loop ver.2) by AudioCoffee: https://freesound.org/s/712212/ License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 Low Filtered Arp – MSfxP9 – 187_4 – (Synth Loop BPM 100) by Erokia: https://freesound.org/s/543742/ License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0