Comparing the perception of doctoral student supervision by supervisors and PhD students

Abstract

Supervision is a central part of the doctoral education, and for that to
be successful, an understanding of what activities make up good super-
vision is required. Supervision comprises of dierent aspects, including
project management, academic enculturation, encouraging critical think-
ing, emancipation, and emotional aspects.
A study of how students and supervisors perceive dierent approaches
to, and activities of, doctoral student supervision is presented. From the
presented data, it appears that the supervisor activities actually carried
out covers the entire range to a fair extent, and we cannot see much signif-
icant disagreement between how the activities are perceived by students
and supervisors.