Supervision - Overview for Supervisors and Students
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Number of Supervisors
Each student should have at least two supervisors: Supervisor and Associate Supervisor. There may be additional Supervisors such as Adjunct (External), Acting and Co-Supervisors.
Supervisors' Responsibilities
- Regular meetings with the postgraduate student
- Helping the student to develop a research planning document within the prescribed period (EFT)
- Reviewing the research planning document
- Reviewing student progress
- Reviewing PGRF and other funding applications
- Participation in Annual Progress Review processes
- Nomination of examiners
- Reviewing of thesis chapters and paper manuscripts and providing feedback to student within reasonable time
- Supervisors are bound by the Macquarie University Code of HDR Practice 2007 including section 3 of that document: the Code of Supervisory Practice.
Checklist for Supervisors
This Checklist for Supervisors was created to help supervisors ensure that they provide complete information to the student relating to their research study. It is provided also for student reference.
Students: Problems with your Supervision?
Students may have concerns about their supervisor(s) or their level of supervision. If this is the case it is important that you discuss this with someone!
In the first instance, open discussion with your supervisor can often solve the problem. Your supervisor may not see a problem until you bring it to his/her attention.
If you feel that this hasn't or won't solve the problem, you may speak confidentially with your Department Director of Postgraduate Research. If the matter remains unresolved, you may bring it to the attention of your Head of Department or the ICS PGR Administrator. The advice and grievance structure is laid out in the Macquarie University Code of HDR Practice 2007.
It may also be appropriate to include comments on problems with supervision at your Departmental Review and /or in your Higher Degree Research Candidate's Annual Progress Report.