Is it possible to publish jointly with your supervisor during your PhD?
Is it possible to publish jointly with your supervisor during your PhD?
These days, a doctoral researcher can reasonably assume that, as with their thesis, they can discuss writing and publishing with their supervisor. They can talk over the purposes of writing a paper, get some direction in writing, and some feedback.
What do you talk about with your PhD supervisor?
Have a Project Plan Some supervisors like to jump straight in and discuss your proposed project, your methodology, how you plan to collect data, what kinds of challenges you think you may encounter, etc. Answering these questions in detail will show you’re serious about the project.
What to do when your PhD supervisor doesn’t do their job?
Sometimes that action will be to abandon the approach and move onto something else. These decisions should feel like a partnership between the supervisor and student. If they don’t then the supervisor is not doing their job. The relationships you have in your PhD are very important.
How hard is it to be a supervisor at University?
Some not hard enough. Some try to clone themselves disregarding that different people work and are motivated in different ways. Some are just A-holes in general, and some lack the field expertise and innovative thought to provide inspirational projects to students. A supervisor can make or break a student regardless of the standard of the student.
Is it a waste of time to change fields in PhDs?
If you have reached the level of PhD student you are already in the top few percent performance wise so will likely be highly adaptive to new types of work. The only real waste is the project work that you will have started in your PhD, but if you are going to change fields then why would you care?
Should You Quit Your PhD for your mental health?
A PhD should never come at the cost of your mental health. Institutions almost never have systems in place to monitor and address the health of PhD students. If at this point you have already decided you are definitely going to quit then don’t read on.