I’m still rather new to supervising PhD researchers. My first just finished her PhD successfully; right now, I am supervising or co-supervising six more, at different stages and also in different disciplines (blame it on a highly interdisciplinary working environment). The experiences I’ve made as supervisor so far go into my principles together with what I’ve learned from my own PhD project as well as talking to others, seeing what they’re struggling with as supervisors and PhD researchers.
My principles reflect what I am aspiring to as supervisor – they are not to be understood as general recommendations. Some of them may have claims to generality, some are definitely a matter of personal taste and some may be controversial. But decide yourself. Here they come, in a rather random order (though I tried to cluster them thematically):
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