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My impression is that if you want students to work around your interests, you should try to get grants or other funding that allow you to offer PhD students funding for working on a project—your project. Personally, I see a PhD as a voyage of (personal) discovery and consider it unethical to try to tie students to me and my interests. It’s my job to support them learning about theirs (it also refreshes me a lot). Just in case someone jumps in, I am not denying need to learn the craft of researching. But in my view what a PhD really shows is the ability to fight through a largish project and to bring it to a conclusion, regardless of difficulties. This then qualifies the holder to be given a grant to undertake another largish project. Best Wishes, Ranulph On 14 Feb 2014, at 13:09, G. Mauricio Mejía <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear Klaus, Ken, and Soumitri, > > Thanks for your replies and materials, I will review them. I figured that there is not a fixed answer for the first question (a). My basic plan right now is to present my research interests and general objectives to the students. This way they could assess whether they research interests match mines and vice versa to have a good mentoring experience. > > Part of my intention in the question was to know if anyone has provided an initial research plan to a student. I have actually thought of Soumitri’s example: when a supervisor gets a research grant, he or she recruits graduate students and they do their graduate research within the grant. Here in Colombia, the national science and technology agency usually requires PIs to deliver theses or dissertations in the grants. In this case, the researcher may have to influence the student research planning more than expected. > > My question regarding masters and PhD differences was about student alignment with supervisor research. My assumption is that a supervisor may influence more master’s student research planning than PhD student planning. But again, with funding the supervisor may be greater need of PhD students. > > Soumitri, I looked up and it seems that you have been in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. The University of Caldas is located in the city of Manizales, province of Caldas, Colombia. You are welcome to visit us anytime! > > Best, > Mauricio > > G. Mauricio Mejía, PhD > Profesor Asociado Universidad de Caldas > http://twitter.com/mmejiaramirez > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> > Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design > Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design > ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------