A few days ago, I posted a few tweets on my stream with the hashtag #PhDTruths before I read the Times Higher Education piece by Dr. Tara Brabazon (which came out right about then). I normally love Professor Brabazon’s pieces (I’ve promoted them before on my Twitter feed), but this piece rubbed me the wrong way. Surely, there are a few gems (particularly around the politics of completing a doctorate), and Professor Brabazon gets into the heart of why one shouldn’t always seek to be supervised by SuperProfessor. That said, I think that it is more important to remind PhD students that both supervisors and themselves are humans and to take a more human approach to supervising/achieving a PhD. These are my tweets in Storify form.
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Hi – just to let you know the article was in Times Higher Education, not on Inside Higher Ed. Cheers!
It’s stated correctly on the blog post’s title and in the text of the blog post.