Their guidance may not amount to a stake through the heart of the PhD horror franchise: as B-movie history amply demonstrates, good advice is not always heeded. In that spirit, two academics with strong views on the matter – one from science and one from the humanities – set out how they think the supervisory task should best be approached. Perhaps, even with the best will in the world, there will always be supervisor-supervisee relationships that just don’t function expectations that, however heartfelt, just aren’t realistic supervisors who just can’t find the time to give the kind of detailed supervision that they would like to give, and that students feel they need.īut perhaps there is still more that could be done to ensure that this most intense and crucial of academic relationships doesn’t end up on the rocks. Here, we present three such examples – all of whose writers, tellingly, feel the need to remain anonymous, given the power dynamics involved. To the authors of such submissions, the system appears, at best, indifferent to them and, at worst, outright exploitative. For all the efforts in recent years to improve the doctoral experience for students, Times Higher Education still receives a steady supply of horror stories from PhD candidates.
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