CGS: Postgraduate Library Support for Supervisors and Students: Screencasts on supervision

Supervision of graduate students is a challenging journey that the supervisor (advisor) and the student embark on together. It includes not only academic guidance, but also prolonged nurturing of the student's personal, scholarly, and professional development. This presentation discusses various issues about the delicate relationship between graduate student (supervisee) and the supervisor, the do's and don'ts and ways to manage the relationship successfully.

Times Higher Education asked for your PhD-related questions and put them to Tara Brabazon, PhD expert and professor of education at Charles Sturt University, Australia. A goldmine of information for current doctoral students, those considering post-graduate study, and anyone involved in supervising PhD candidates.

How to prevent and manage problems in the relationship between PhD students and their supervisors. Interviews with supervisors and PhD students point out eight areas that seems important. This video presents these eight categories during 41 minutes and 46 seconds. All informants approved the final version of this video. (More information is found at http://science-network.tv/supervision/)

Disagreements are mostly OK. Interviews with supervisors and PhD students point out five possible problems. This video presents this during 33 minutes and 5 seconds. All informants approved the final version of this video. This topic is expanded further in a scientific publication found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-1.... (Some additional information is also given at http://science-network.tv/supervision/)

Doctoral education is changing from stimulating independent research to a formal education with short term goals. This transformation is probably stronger in Europe. In the following video, supervisors and doctoral PhD students point out the strengths and weaknesses that come with these changes? Would a young Albert Einstein be accepted as a PhD student today? The video is 26 minutes 30 seconds long. All informants approved the final version of this video. (More information is found at http://science-network.tv/supervision/).

Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others. (TED Talks)

Vik Nithy is the founder of 3 companies at the age of 20 including how own marketing consulting firm. His left after school Vik has been extremely successful despite being diagnosed with ADHD after finishing his school exams. Developing his passion for cognitive neuroscience, educational reform and the potential of young people.