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Good supervisors can help advise their students but can't teach them like undergraduates.
I'm very fortunate to have two good supervisors; it makes a big difference, especially when things aren't going to plan, which is often.
Instead, we offer it here as a preliminary word of caution and baseline principle to programme organizers in the recruitment of good supervisors and to staff considering taking on the role of a supervisor.
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"A good supervisor will set you up for life.
A good supervisor is a guide and mentor, not an encyclopedia or a self-help book.
"Research students need more than a good supervisor; they need deep engagement in the full breadth of their discipline.
The supervisor/PhD student relationship can be one of lifelong intellectual friendship, or one of problems that you learn to manage – but mutual sensitivity about working patterns and the emotions tied up with intellectual work is the best basis for good supervisor-student relationships.
I said, "Why are you quitting?" He said, "Well, I think you're a great engineer and I think you'll be a good supervisor someday, but right now, this is just too much for me to be supervised this tightly".
There is no link between being a good scientist and being a good supervisor.
"The way I figured it, if this person took the time to reply, he would be a damn good supervisor, because he cared," Poirier says.
Also important is to choose a good supervisor, one who won't treat you like "cheap labor at the service of a great project," he added.
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