I will stop lurking for just a moment...
Reading the recent comments about PhD supervisors who do not
adequately supervise their students, and who feel it an
imposition to have to actually read and comment on their
students' texts, I was astonished to hear that any supervisor
would think this way.
I currently have a candidate who has submitted a final draft
thesis. Of the three supervisors in the team, 2 are the subject
experts and have commented on the content, and my job is to read
the whole draft and make any comments on editing for the final
text.
More to the point, I feel it my responsibility to try to ensure
that my student will have the best possible chance of getting
through the viva without major revisions being imposed, and that
the thesis will stand up to scrutiny by the outside world as a
work of publishable standard. My reputation hangs on that as
much as the PhD programme we are building here.
I always thought that this was a natural part of the supervisor's
role.
However, this does limit the number of students that one might
supervise (assuming that they are all at different stages) to a
maximum of perhaps six full time candidates.
David
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