This practical guide is based on a series of successful workshops on postgraduate supervision and presents the most frequently encountered difficulties in the student/supervisor relationship. Detailed but concise case studies offer realistic solutions to the thirty issues discussed, including:
- What kind of problems are encountered while undertaking postgraduate study?
- How are these problems best avoided or resolved?
- How can the student/supervisor relationship be improved?
Each case study raises important questions to generate discussion, and suggests solutions and preventative measures. The book also includes a section that shows how the case studies can be used in a teaching workshop setting.
- Conflict
- Culture
- Distance
- Funding
- Isolation
- Language
- Management
- Plagiarism
- Priority
- Time
- Transfer
- Write-up
Effective Postgraduate Supervision is essential reading for supervisors of postgraduate degrees including those at masters and doctoral level as well as prospective and current postgraduate research students.
- ISBN13 9780335217076
- Publish Date 16 October 2005 (first published 1 January 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 December 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Open University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English