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Managing your supervisor
Toby WalshNational ICT Australia
Universities of NSW and Uppsala
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Health Warning
Managing your supervisor
Several supervisors asked me if this topic was a “good idea”
For whom?
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Health warning
You really ought to be asking Brahim, Zeynep, Emmanuel, ..
How do you manage Toby?
Or is that, can you?
I’m not sure that I managed Alan Bundy that well!
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Outline
Understanding your supervisor
Manipulating your supervisor
Great expectations
Common pitfalls
Dealing with conflict
Managing your career
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Understanding your supervisor
Their goals
Their skills
Their hates
Their inadequacies
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Their goals
Supervision is a poorly paid job
I have supervised students at universities that don’t even employ me
Clearly your supervisor’s goal is not (directly) money
So what is motivating them?
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Their goals
Giving back to the system
They were well supervised, ...
Creating a scientific “legacy”
Ambassadors to spread their views, ...
Multiplying their output
My favourite programming language, ...
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Their skills
They vaguely know what it takes to get a PhD
They surely have one themselves
They offer different skills over the life cycle of your PhD
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Their skills
At the start
Identifying a good question
Knowing what has already been done
Anticipating when a problem will be too hard or too easy
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Their skills
In the middle
Watching over the “bigger” picture
Nudging your in good directions
Identifying common pitfalls (see later)
Keeping an eye on the clock
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Their skills
At the end
Telling you when to stop
Knowing what a thesis looks like
Anticipating problem areas for your viva
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Their hates
Students who quit
Wasted effort all round
Students who finish late
They know writing up isn’t that pleasant
But it needs to be done
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Their inadequacies
Supervisors are only human too
They are unable to
read your mind
manage their time
remember much
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Try to Remember
They are learning on the job
There are no classes to be a supervisor
They have little experience
Like in medicine: do one, watch one, teach one
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Manipulating your supervisor
Inform them
Scientific obstacles
Personal obstacles
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Manipulating your supervisor
Be positive
Your supervisor is more likely to want to help
You’ll feel better
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Manipulating your supervisor
Work hard
They will be more willing to work hard too
You’ll more likely to get results
A thesis is hard work
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Manipulating your supervisor
Write
Internal notes
Conference papers
Journal articles
They will find it hard to ignore paper
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Manipulating your supervisor
Be their ambassador
Scientific contacts
Social networking
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Manipulating your supervisor
Make yourself invaluable
Reviewing papers
Helping run conferences
Running the lab/group
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Great expectations
Your expectations
Their expectations
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Your expectations
Intellectual support
Quality assurance
Telling you when (not) to stop
Emotional support
Encouragement
Constructive environment
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Their expectations
You finish
You go on to supervise
Your drafts lack spelling mistakes
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Common pitfalls
Solving the world
Manna from heaven
Computer bum
Ivory tower
Researcher’s Bible, Alan Bundy et al.http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bundy/how-tos/resbible.html
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Common pitfallsMisunderstood genius
Love of jargon
If I can do it, it’s trivial
Love of complexity
Lost in abstraction
Ambitious paralysis
Researcher’s Bible, Alan Bundy et al.http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bundy/how-tos/resbible.html
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Psychological hurdles
Self confidence
Research impotence
Thin skin
Cold start
Theorem envy
Fear of exposure
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Dealing with conflict
Conflict is common
Supervision is like a marriage
Even divorce is possible
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Dealing with conflict
Communicate
Conflict often caused by breakdowns in communication
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Dealing with conflict
Compromise
There are two of you in this “marriage”
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Dealing with conflict
Speak to your second supervisor
Approach a colleague of theirs
Find your graduate officer
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If all else fails, you can “change” your supervisor
Formally or informally
Funding may be an issue
Dealing with conflict
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Managing your career
Your supervisor is your “best” friend
Getting your first job
Getting your second job
...
Your success is their success
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Managing your career
Unlike a marriage, they expect (and want) you to leave
To see you stand on your own feet
More like having children?
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Managing your career
Where to next?
PostDoc
Faculty
Industry
Seminary
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Managing your career
Your supervisor doesn’t know everything
Experience other labs
Short visits
Post Doc
Sabbatical
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Managing your career
Exploit mentors
Supervisor
Thesis committee
Visitors
...
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Managing your career
Help others
Your scratch my back, ...
Contribute
Organize workshops
Give tutorials
Develop web resources, ...
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Managing your career
Set goals, make plans
Standard career paths
Less conventional paths
Expect the unexpected
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Conclusions
Understanding your supervisor
Manipulating your supervisor
Great expectations
Dealing with conflict
Managing your career
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The End