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, …

Community Acuity (32): Lead by example and take time off!

Michael Gratzke is Professor of comparative literature at the University of Dundee and the Director of the Doctoral Academy  Recent conversations on Twitter have brought up a lot of reports of bad practice in PGR supervision with regards to working hours, workloads and communicating expectations to supervisees explicitly and implicitly.  We can shake our heads …