DPU Forum

Meeting of minds

Estelle Phillips offers some tips
Tuesday September 6, 2005 The Guardian


The 10 golden rules
· Always leave a tutorial having agreed a date for the next one

· Send your supervisors a summary of each tutorial

· Make sure you do not have two supervisors with equal responsibility

· Do not become romantically involved with your supervisor

· Don't be too independent - you need to conform, too

· Discuss frequency of meetings with your supervisor at the beginning

· If anything is interfering with your work, let your supervisors know

· Establish exactly what is being criticised and how to put it right

· Ask direct but positively constructed questions

· Tell your supervisor what you are discovering as you are discovering it

Dr Estelle M Phillips is co-author with Professor DS Pugh of How to Get a PhD, which covers these subjects in detail.

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