Contributor reflections on care receiving - doctoral supervision

The guest video contributions featured on this page begin with reflections on care-receiving in the context of doctoral supervision. The page ends with a few prompting discussion questions. As well as responding to these questions, you may like to propose some prompting questions of your own for other learners to respond to.

Gloria was supervised by Prof Alex Franklin. Here she shares with Alex, reflections on their care-full relationship.

Imogen talks about the good supervision she has experienced, and her response to being supervised.

QUESTIONS:

• Is it important to have a supervisor with the same research interests as you?
• Are you open to being challenged by your supervisor?
• What opportunities are there within your doctoral supervision processes for the student to be able to feed back in a way which supports a care-full relationship?