tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286305307194622159.post1629657463968245011..comments2009-06-07T07:00:12.945+02:00Comments on Curious Computer: FeedbackCurious Computerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16729694694403134030noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286305307194622159.post-1363241811140061842009-04-17T22:42:00.000+02:002009-04-17T22:42:00.000+02:00Actually, you are the second person in the last 2 ...Actually, you are the second person in the last 2 weeks to recommend that I get supervision experience. (Though the other was thinking ahead to the postdoc I hope to start towards the end of the year.) I just have the feeling at the moment that I am supremely unqualified to supervise anyone, since I'm not sure I'm supervising myself properly. <br /><br />My direct/daily supervisor was a non-full prof PhD but meeting with her was such a negative experience that I really am better off working on my own. And other than her, there is one other researcher. He is helpful and we meet regularly but he only defended just over a year ago and so is more like a fellow student. (We started meeting when we were both students.) My official supervisor discussed Christmas traditions across cultures with me :)Curious Computerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16729694694403134030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286305307194622159.post-42030482430164349542009-04-17T17:46:00.000+02:002009-04-17T17:46:00.000+02:00You're welcome :)
If you can, you might want to ...You're welcome :) <br /><br />If you can, you might want to get experience in supervising. It gave me more perspective about what supervising is about, what style or attention is needed when to get me going. <br /><br />Are there non-full professors who have PhDs too? In my case, my daily supervisor is a researcher, but she's awesome. Also, I don't think I could deal with my official supervisor this often - his questions can be really strange (last time, we discussed curtains and coffee - why am I still not drinking any?).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286305307194622159.post-82464011714706794612009-04-14T09:44:00.000+02:002009-04-14T09:44:00.000+02:00friday: I'm not actually sure what the official ru...friday: I'm not actually sure what the official rules are for Masters. None of the PhD students I know are doing any supervision, though I have found myself asking supervisor type questions (why are you testing that? what are you expecting to find?) when I'm asked for technical help by Masters students. I have one friend here who finished his PhD about 18 months ago and is doing a lot of supervision for his one-time advisor, who is taking all the credit. The gap here seems to be not between student and non-student, but between full professor (habilitation + a chairs position) and everybody else.<br /><br />And thanks for dropping by. It is nice to find European academic blogs to balance out the primarily North American experiences I read about.Curious Computerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16729694694403134030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5286305307194622159.post-43789548215229627662009-04-13T18:58:00.000+02:002009-04-13T18:58:00.000+02:00Nice to see somebody else telling tales about fini...Nice to see somebody else telling tales about finishing a PhD in the EU. We have a somewhat similar structure in our department, but I think the bigger snag is that PhDs aren't allowed to supervise Master students. So nominally those students are supervised by professors, but in a lot of cases it's really the PhD students who are supervising. <BR/>How does that work in your department?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com