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Writing this blog in 2013
I have started this 2013 series of blogs by writing what I would describe as summarising blogs to draw together the many different blogs under a given theme. For those who have followed this blog for some time they will … Continue reading
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The Power of the Quarterly Report
In this blog I am pleased to welcome William Stevenson as a guest writer. Industrial research managers often require their personnel to provide them with quarterly reports on their progress. This is most common when the manager himself is required … Continue reading
Developing a research culture through supervision meetings.
The core relationship within a research degree is the supervisory one. As with an understanding of any culture, it is influenced by the first people from that culture with whom we make contact. The same applies to research, hence the … Continue reading
Research supervision as research culture developer
The idea of research culture is one which, compared to some other topics associated with research supervision, has been rare. Schein (1990), writing about Organisational Culture is often credited with bringing the term into the vernacular. He recognised the provenance … Continue reading
Research supervision as Contribution to Knowledge
The idea that one supervises to advance knowledge draws its energy from the often unstated expectation that a research degree is intended to make a contribution to knowledge. This expectation was made explicit in the recent Bologna agreement (Floud, 2006) … Continue reading
Research supervision as pedagogy
By far the most dominant discourse in the research supervision literature is the discussion about research supervision as pedagogy. Although not using the term ‘pedagogy’, Connell (1985) established this strand of thinking about research supervision in her personal account of … Continue reading
Analytical Tools for ascertaining student progress
The idea of having analytical tools to ascertain whether research students are advancing in the ways in which we hope and would like, arose out of a question put to me at a seminar for research supervisors. The question was … Continue reading
Advancing your research supervision
The idea of improving research supervision arose from studies undertaken at around the time that the funding formula for university based research changed to focus on completion rather than enrolment (Ingrid Moses, 1984). This shifted the emphasis for universities from … Continue reading
Research Supervision as relationship
A research study undertaken by Ingrid Moses (1984), at the time numbers of research students in Australia were increasing, is likely to have established an agenda for the relational aspect of research supervision. This study explored the idea, common in … Continue reading
Research Supervision as Project Management
The idea of research supervision as project management has possibly always existed in disciplines which focus on completion of projects (such as Engineering). In my reading of the literature this view of research supervision became formalised as an approach to … Continue reading
the (research) supervisor's friend
