Walking our talk: Exploring supervision of postgraduate self-study research through metaphor drawing

Postgraduate Research Supervision: An ‘Agreed’ Conceptual View of Good Practice through Derived Metaphors

The paper explores the role of the postgraduate supervisor through advising, mentoring, and monitoring for the varied and complex process towards successful doctoral thesis completion. There is a scarcity of research into this important area, and we therefore undertake a comprehensive literature review to determine the current state of knowledge and international approaches. This involved an in...

Unethical Postgraduate Supervision

Dear Editor, Many years ago unprofessional supervisors were identified as one of the main reasons for the withdrawal of a student’s study. Recently in some universities, unethical supervision has become an increasing concern of students and ethic committees. The last few years has witnessed an increase in the withdrawal rate of students who quit their study because of the poor guidance of their...

Postgraduate Research Students’ and their Supervisors’ Attitudes towards Supervision

There is a need for research exploring postgraduate research students’ expectations from research supervisors, the characteristics of effective student-supervisor relationships, and the opinions of students and supervisors about research supervision. We also need instruments to explore the student-supervisor relationship. The present study investigated postgraduate research students’ and resear...

Postgraduate research supervision in the emerging ‘open’ universities

A qualitative inquiry into the challenges and complexities of research supervision: viewpoints of postgraduate students and faculty members

Introduction: The supervision of academic theses at theUniversities of Medical Sciences is one of the most importantissues with several challenges. The aim of the present studyis to discover the nature of problems and challenges of thesissupervision in Iranian universities of medical sciences.Methods: The study was conducted with a qualitative methodusing conventional content analysis approach....