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Musings on research supervision

On 4th Jul 202010th Oct 2020 By alisonlawson68In PhD4 Comments

I have supervised many dissertations at undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as supervising PhDs. Some are a breeze, some are a struggle and 90% are in the middle somewhere. The first stumbling block for me is the student’s choice of topic. Sometimes the proposed title is surprising, intriguing, exciting or off the wall. But …

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