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I am currently pursuing a PhD in theoretical physics in a European country, with the program expected to last 3-4 years. I am already 1.5 years into the program and am very happy and motivated with my research topic. I work consistently and productively, and enjoy what I do. My supervisor, a knowledgeable man in his mid-40s, is not a good mentor.
Has anybody else felt like their PhD supervisor is completely ...
The draft I produced was approved by my supervisor, but has now been rejected for publication several times due to its non-systematic nature. I was discussing the results of a multiple regression with my supervisor (a type of data analysis which is well understood by most first-year undergraduates in the social science).
How to choose PhD supervisor? : r/AskAcademia
Your advisor must have expertise in those skills, so that you can become competitive applicant for those roles upon PhD completion. Other: Make sure your advisor is the department's top 10 percent in terms of funding. Talk to students from lab without informing advisor. This will give idea of culture.
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The correct way to deal with a toxic advisor is to move elsewhere, even if it means changing universities. If you can do so safely (to yourself and your career) report them to university authorities. Whether it has any effect or not depends on how widespread are the poor attitudes. These things happen and when they do, a sort of whipsaw effect ...
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Posted in r/PhD by u/Robo_saiyan • 26 points and 57 comments
How to explain the reasons to change Phd. supervisor
1. It's all in your question already, avoid going into details that could make you look like a troublemaker, and do specify real, preferably academic reasons for the change. Make clear why you see your PhD work in the potential new supervisor's research direction. - lighthouse keeper.
PhD supervisor making me do a LOT of non PhD work
2nd year PhD student going into 3rd and final year in September, in the UK. My PhD supervisor is a brilliant researcher, and for the most part I enjoy working with her. I do have a second supervisor but she is essentially useless. My project is pretty hectic, I enjoy working on different components at once.
How to Write an Email to a PhD Supervisor and What to Ask Them
Your first email to a potential PhD supervisor should be a formal email, in many ways like an application cover letter. 1. Include a clear subject line. Make sure your initial email doesn't have a vague subject line that could lead to it being ignored (or heading straight for the spam folder). Some examples could be:
PhD supervisor does work for me : r/GradSchool
PhD supervisor does work for me. Research. Need thoughts and opinions on this. (Biomedical science PhD student) Currently in my 3rd year. For the past few years, my supervisor (who's been great and I really get along with) has been doing a lot of my research work, specifically the data analysis bit. Case in point, I did a couple of experiments ...
How to cope with a problematic PhD supervisor
Problem 1: A lack of contact. The first common problem is simply a lack of contact. This is especially common if you're doing a PhD remotely and you're entirely dependent on email for communication. Sometimes this isn't entirely the supervisor's fault. Often I speak to students who say they emailed the supervisor three months ago but ...
Questions to Ask a Potential PhD Advisor: Step 1 in ...
Goals of Your Meeting with a Potential PhD Advisor. Here are the goals you should have set for your meetings with potential PhD advisors. #1 Identify dissertation topics of interest to the faculty. You may have many ideas, or one specific idea, for the subject of your future PhD dissertation research.
Ten types of PhD supervisor relationships
However, these policies need to be accommodated into already overloaded workloads and should include regular review of supervisors. Academics. PhD. professional mentoring. PhD supervisors ...
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Of course your supervisor could also be understanding and let you use that group as a fall back. It would save them the trouble of hiring someone new. Finally, and this possibly be first, have you exhausted all options to fix your current PhD such as working with your supervisor to limit/remove the issues you have.
The PhD-Doctor: What (Not) to Expect From Your Supervisor
THE PHD-DOCTOR INDEX. This is the third part of a series for PhD students with hands-on advice on how to handle the hurdles and challenges of your PhD project, written by Herman Lelieveldt. The PhD-Doctor is based on excerpts from his book Promoveren--Een wegwijzer voor de beginnend wetenschapper. G ood research is the result of communication.
How to find a PhD supervisor. : r/PhD
Country: UK. I've seen many post saying that picking a good PhD supervisor is absolutely essential to a good PhD experience. And there are a lot of different standards to what a "good" PhD supervisor means. I've seen: Responsiveness. Well funded. Reputation. Lab culture. constantly coming up as key features to look out for.
The 5 Top Traits of the Worst Advisors
The supervisor advised against it. It then turned out that the supervisor applied for the funding themselves instead and got it (despite not being a 'new academic'). I really wish there was a way to warn PhD students of supervisors like this, but my friend is still dependent on a good reference to get a job so does not want to rock the boat.
How to Cope with a Problematic PhD Supervisor
To cope with a supervisor that constantly complains, you can do the following: Listen - You should actively listen to the complaints voiced by the supervisor in order to deal with them appropriately later on. Acknowledge - You must then acknowledge your supervisor's comments in a suitable manner.
What should I ask a potential PhD advisor in an informal interview?
PhD supervisors often love it when their student (or potential student) is capable of reading and understanding papers on their own, then drawing their own connections foreseeing their own interesting research avenues. ... I'd probably ask how he sees himself as a PhD-supervisor, what his philosophy of supervising is, and what he expects of his ...
How common is it to disagree with supervisor? : r/PhD
I am in a second year PhD. Lately, I have become very unmotivated as my supervisor is trying to force me to do certain experiments and go about my research in a way that I do not agree with. My PhD spans a couple of different areas, and admittedly they are not an expert in some of this. However, they are very much putting pressure on me to run ...
10 signs of a bad PhD supervisor
A PhD supervisor is arguably the most important person in a PhD student's journey. Therefore, a good match between PhD supervisor and PhD student is crucial. The following ten signs help prospective PhD students to expose bad PhD supervisors or at least a bad match between the supervisor and themselves. Contents Why finding a good
How do I deal with this phd supervisor? : r/GradSchool
How do I deal with this phd supervisor? I have started my PhD and the professor does not provide the promised funding. He does not pick a research topic and asking me to find a topic. The amount of pressure on me is insane. He just introduces projects that are not relevant to any known industry, all are fake startups belongs to him.
Why is a potential Ph.D supervisor not answering to an email?
Your email might have been overlooked or lost in a crowded inbox. 2. **Busy Schedules**: Academic professionals typically have demanding schedules, balancing teaching, research, administrative ...
Bad relationship with PhD supervisors, should I have them as my
Not having the recommendation of the PhD supervisor is going to raise some flags, especially in academia. However, you can get recommendations from other senior people you collaborated with on research papers if you published any. Those people should be able to write decent recommendation letters for you. If you apply for non-academic jobs, you ...
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I am currently pursuing a PhD in theoretical physics in a European country, with the program expected to last 3-4 years. I am already 1.5 years into the program and am very happy and motivated with my research topic. I work consistently and productively, and enjoy what I do. My supervisor, a knowledgeable man in his mid-40s, is not a good mentor.
The draft I produced was approved by my supervisor, but has now been rejected for publication several times due to its non-systematic nature. I was discussing the results of a multiple regression with my supervisor (a type of data analysis which is well understood by most first-year undergraduates in the social science).
Your advisor must have expertise in those skills, so that you can become competitive applicant for those roles upon PhD completion. Other: Make sure your advisor is the department's top 10 percent in terms of funding. Talk to students from lab without informing advisor. This will give idea of culture.
The correct way to deal with a toxic advisor is to move elsewhere, even if it means changing universities. If you can do so safely (to yourself and your career) report them to university authorities. Whether it has any effect or not depends on how widespread are the poor attitudes. These things happen and when they do, a sort of whipsaw effect ...
Posted in r/PhD by u/Robo_saiyan • 26 points and 57 comments
1. It's all in your question already, avoid going into details that could make you look like a troublemaker, and do specify real, preferably academic reasons for the change. Make clear why you see your PhD work in the potential new supervisor's research direction. - lighthouse keeper.
2nd year PhD student going into 3rd and final year in September, in the UK. My PhD supervisor is a brilliant researcher, and for the most part I enjoy working with her. I do have a second supervisor but she is essentially useless. My project is pretty hectic, I enjoy working on different components at once.
Your first email to a potential PhD supervisor should be a formal email, in many ways like an application cover letter. 1. Include a clear subject line. Make sure your initial email doesn't have a vague subject line that could lead to it being ignored (or heading straight for the spam folder). Some examples could be:
PhD supervisor does work for me. Research. Need thoughts and opinions on this. (Biomedical science PhD student) Currently in my 3rd year. For the past few years, my supervisor (who's been great and I really get along with) has been doing a lot of my research work, specifically the data analysis bit. Case in point, I did a couple of experiments ...
Problem 1: A lack of contact. The first common problem is simply a lack of contact. This is especially common if you're doing a PhD remotely and you're entirely dependent on email for communication. Sometimes this isn't entirely the supervisor's fault. Often I speak to students who say they emailed the supervisor three months ago but ...
Goals of Your Meeting with a Potential PhD Advisor. Here are the goals you should have set for your meetings with potential PhD advisors. #1 Identify dissertation topics of interest to the faculty. You may have many ideas, or one specific idea, for the subject of your future PhD dissertation research.
However, these policies need to be accommodated into already overloaded workloads and should include regular review of supervisors. Academics. PhD. professional mentoring. PhD supervisors ...
Of course your supervisor could also be understanding and let you use that group as a fall back. It would save them the trouble of hiring someone new. Finally, and this possibly be first, have you exhausted all options to fix your current PhD such as working with your supervisor to limit/remove the issues you have.
THE PHD-DOCTOR INDEX. This is the third part of a series for PhD students with hands-on advice on how to handle the hurdles and challenges of your PhD project, written by Herman Lelieveldt. The PhD-Doctor is based on excerpts from his book Promoveren--Een wegwijzer voor de beginnend wetenschapper. G ood research is the result of communication.
Country: UK. I've seen many post saying that picking a good PhD supervisor is absolutely essential to a good PhD experience. And there are a lot of different standards to what a "good" PhD supervisor means. I've seen: Responsiveness. Well funded. Reputation. Lab culture. constantly coming up as key features to look out for.
The supervisor advised against it. It then turned out that the supervisor applied for the funding themselves instead and got it (despite not being a 'new academic'). I really wish there was a way to warn PhD students of supervisors like this, but my friend is still dependent on a good reference to get a job so does not want to rock the boat.
To cope with a supervisor that constantly complains, you can do the following: Listen - You should actively listen to the complaints voiced by the supervisor in order to deal with them appropriately later on. Acknowledge - You must then acknowledge your supervisor's comments in a suitable manner.
PhD supervisors often love it when their student (or potential student) is capable of reading and understanding papers on their own, then drawing their own connections foreseeing their own interesting research avenues. ... I'd probably ask how he sees himself as a PhD-supervisor, what his philosophy of supervising is, and what he expects of his ...
I am in a second year PhD. Lately, I have become very unmotivated as my supervisor is trying to force me to do certain experiments and go about my research in a way that I do not agree with. My PhD spans a couple of different areas, and admittedly they are not an expert in some of this. However, they are very much putting pressure on me to run ...
A PhD supervisor is arguably the most important person in a PhD student's journey. Therefore, a good match between PhD supervisor and PhD student is crucial. The following ten signs help prospective PhD students to expose bad PhD supervisors or at least a bad match between the supervisor and themselves. Contents Why finding a good
How do I deal with this phd supervisor? I have started my PhD and the professor does not provide the promised funding. He does not pick a research topic and asking me to find a topic. The amount of pressure on me is insane. He just introduces projects that are not relevant to any known industry, all are fake startups belongs to him.
Your email might have been overlooked or lost in a crowded inbox. 2. **Busy Schedules**: Academic professionals typically have demanding schedules, balancing teaching, research, administrative ...
Not having the recommendation of the PhD supervisor is going to raise some flags, especially in academia. However, you can get recommendations from other senior people you collaborated with on research papers if you published any. Those people should be able to write decent recommendation letters for you. If you apply for non-academic jobs, you ...