Just another email? The role of supervisors in Pre-Application Doctoral Communications (PADC)

This post is by Dr Ahmad Akkad Postdoctoral Researcher in the Education Department at the University of Oxford, and Dr Emily F. Henderson Reader in Gender and International Higher Education and Director of Doctoral Education and Academia Research Centre (DEAR) at the University of Warwick. Image credit: Yara Aboasfour If you are a doctoral supervisor, …

Care-full advising in the neoliberal academy: how to support PhD students through challenging fieldwork.

This is a guest post by Martina Angela Caretta, PhD. Associate Professor in the Department of Human Geography, Lund University Fieldwork, whether in a far away location or in the same city where the institution you are working at is located, is a corner stone of several natural and social sciences disciplines. Through fieldwork, PhD …

Transformative supervision workshops as a tool for decolonisation

Laetitia Rispel is a Professor of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she holds a Research Chair as part of the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI). This post is based on her 2023 paper: Relationships, power and accountability: Reflections on transformative postgraduate supervision workshops at a South …