Dear Fehmidah, and everyone else
You hear about situations like this but don't believe that it actually
happens anymore. It must be horrible.
But advice on the publishing, obviously it is up to you, but i would be
very suspicious of a supervisor asking this. I think the only circumstances
in which the supervisor-as-second-author rule (and it is generally that) is
when the supervisor does most of hte work to transform a bit of
data/analysis etc into a paper, or radically transforms something you have
done (perhaps to the extent that you no longer want to claim it as
primarily yours). The supervisor has an ethical obligation to start your
career, rather than trampling over you to further hers. (and if it is a
first publication for you, all the more so!) I did some reasearch years
back about the ethics of publishing, and remember there being a few things
written on joint authorship issues which might be helpful if you are trying
to think through this (sorry I don't have any references off-hand, but
books about ethics and publishing, i think there were a few).
While the question raised about how important is your supervisor to your
career is a valid one, you don't want to let yourself down, or sell
yourself short, because they have power over you.
Another thing that might be possible (if they have them you your
department) is talking to your director of research for your PhD and asking
them.
Hope these ramblings are of some use. And congratulations on getting the PhD
It is also nice to see a topic generating 'discussion'
cheer
Ginny
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Department of Social Sciences,
Loughborough University,
Loughborough,
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UK
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