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I think of research supervision as….
- advancing your research supervision practice
- Analytical tools for the early months of candidature
- research supervision as advancing knowledge
- research supervision as management
- research supervision as pedagogy
- research supervision as relationship
- research supervision supporting a research culture
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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Problematising knowledge which has been drawn from experience
Research practice has a long provenance dating back to the Ancient Greeks. During the Enlightenment period, the emergence of scientific method so influenced research practice that for some time this was the accepted approach. This dominance was challenged during the … Continue reading
Arguing (philosophically) for something different in a dissertation
The dissertation is a genre of writing that has a lengthy provenance. Its purpose – to argue a thesis – stems from the requirements made of prospective graduates in the Medieval monasteries, precursors to the Medieval Universities, that they defend … Continue reading
the (research) supervisor's friend
