Comments for the (research) supervisor's friend

Comment on The Power of the Quarterly Report by Francis O. Cox

Francis O. Cox — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 06:51:43 +0000

The following report summarizes the quarterly activities under the University of Arizona / Clark University Cooperative Agreement with USAID. During this quarter the Government of Malawi prepared a three year workplan for the environmental monitoring program. This workplan focuses on monitoring, research and training and does not refer to the NATURE and PLUS components included in the UA/CU workplan. As this report must fulfill reporting requirements on all UA/CU activities, as well as reporting on how the UA/CU technical assistance is supporting activities in the GoM workplan, considerable information is provided which is not referred to in the GoM workplan.

Comment on How Close to Supervise? by the (research) supervisor's friend

the (research) supervisor's friend — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:18:08 +0000

These comments emulate the importance of the relationship within research supervision and as a research supervisor I can position myself up the end of the continuum that looks at frequent and strategic involvement with my research students. I have observed the alternate; what is often described as the ‘hands-off’ approach and which I often link to a ‘sink-or-swim’ approach.
Because of busy schedules supervisors are often not in a position to meet with the student as regularly as the student might like. Some would even argue that this frequent meeting develops too great a dependence on the supervisor. I have also come across supervisors, who in a defense of encouraging the student’s own authorship of their dissertation also justify lack of feedback on their writing.
There is no one best method for research supervision. One would hope that rather than adopting the hegemony of supervision which seems to me to be embedded in the supervisor hierarchy, research supervisors would adopt sound pedagogy and look at trying to offer supervision which also caters to the individual learning needs of their student.

Comment on Assessing the writing ability of your research student by iamrobinj

iamrobinj — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:50:07 +0000

very well said, It’s inspiring that uniqueness of each students’ personality matters also.

Comment on How can you tell when there has been a contribution to knowledge (in a doctoral research study)? by oscar rubio

oscar rubio — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 03:01:19 +0000

I got a clearer idea, but still I cannot touch ground yet. Thank you.

Comment on Modelling Time Management Skills – analysing the time you put into research supervision by http://sponsorthree.com/

http://sponsorthree.com/ — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:20:28 +0000

By Any Chance, do you have more articles such as the following
1 termed, Is the time you are putting into research supervision adding value?
| the (research) supervisor’s friend? I really would like to read even alot more regarding it. Thanks.

Comment on How can you tell when there has been a contribution to knowledge (in a doctoral research study)? by Munanura Arthur

Munanura Arthur — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 05:00:48 +0000

this sorts me out, thanks

Comment on Analysing your student’s reading ability. by the (research) supervisor's friend

the (research) supervisor's friend — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:50:13 +0000

HI Binta,
This is not an easy question to answer as so many factors impact on the decision about how to investigate a particular topic.
Sometimes this decision is made in terms of what types of knowledge you will be using to investigate your topic. If this is qualitative then that opens up into a range of investigative approaches that work with qualitative data.
Sometimes the literature about how other people have investigated similar topics sugegsts that there is a well established approach to investigating the topic and this helps in your choice about your investigative approach.
To the best of my knowledge, there is no analytical tool that will help oyu decide which sort of analytical tools to bring to bear to your particular data. This is usually established in an extended argument about
How the topic can be understood (framing)
and given this understanding the range of investigative that might be viable.

It is also important to look at how you are establishing the truth of your outcomes as this will impact on the types of tests that you use for these verification processes.

Comment on Analysing your student’s reading ability. by BINTA GARBA GUMAU

BINTA GARBA GUMAU — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:27:03 +0000

Please i need to know what are analytical tools, types of analytical tools and examples of where or what type of research topic could be analyzed with what type of analytical tool.Example in what type of research do i use correlation analysis or descriptive analysis or quantitative analysis

Comment on Developing a research project plan by the (research) supervisor's friend

the (research) supervisor's friend — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 22:20:00 +0000

Thank you for this question Eric.
In my experience I have found that each university, and sometimes each individual faculty provides a template for their research proposal document.
At the university where I work, in the Business Faculty, that template is provided by way of a set of suggestions about the sections to be included in the submitted document. These sugegstions include the expected sections of a research document, such as a review of the literature and establishing how the proposed investigative topic emerges from the known literature. At the faculty in which I am engaged the template also included comments and statements from the research student about the ways they are addressing their graduate research capabilities – the explicit repertoire of skills they will have at the point of graduation.
A good way to find the template for the research proposal is to search for research proposal on a university or faculty web site and this will often lead you to the document which instructs students about what is required in the completion of this document.

Comment on Developing a research project plan by eric chisupa

eric chisupa — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:21:25 +0000

what would be a template for a research project paln then