Abstract Each year, more students worldwide enter graduate school to complete their master's degree. A cornerstone of their education is the master's thesis. Respectively, master's thesis supervisors hold a key role in higher education teaching, yet no evidence-based overview currently exists of elements that make thesis supervision effective. Based on a systematic literature review, this ...
The Graduate Student's Roadmap: Choosing the Ideal Thesis Supervisor
The key to a successful thesis experience often lies in choosing the right thesis supervisor. A supervisor plays a pivotal role in guiding students through the complex process, offering expertise, support, and valuable feedback. This article provides a roadmap for graduate students to navigate the search for an ideal thesis supervisor, ensuring ...
PDF Master's Thesis Supervision
The MA thesis student and supervisor will discuss and attempt to resolve any conflicts as they arise. If, however, the MA thesis student or supervisor needs to terminate the relationship for any reason, the MA thesis student and supervisor agree to abide by one another's decision. If the MA thesis student or supervisor decides to terminate
Roles and responsibilities of supervisors
Effective graduate student supervision requires complex interactions between graduate students and their supervisors. The role of a supervisor is threefold: to advise graduate students, monitor their academic progress, and act as a mentor. Supervisors not only provide guidance, instruction and encouragement in the research activities of their ...
Responsibilities of the supervisor
This page contains detailed information about the role and responsibilities of a postgraduate supervisor, including research planning and thesis requirements. Its content is relevant to staff and students across all of the UK, China and Malaysia campuses.
How to Choose an Academic Supervisor: A Complete Guide
A PhD supervisor can make or break a candidate's progress. Here's a complete guide to choosing an academic supervisor who fits best for you.
Getting the most out of thesis supervision meetings
Chances are that postgraduate students meet their thesis supervisor/s only every few weeks, and for a limited amount of time. Therefore, it is extremely important to take full advantage of supervision meetings. The following tips help bachelor's, master's and PhD students to make the most of thesis supervision meetings.
PDF A Supervisor's Roles for Successful Thesis and Dissertation
Factors to Success in Thesis and Dissertation and the Roles of a Supervisor To achieve the master degree and doctoral degree, a graduate student must complete his/her own research called "thesis for master degree" and "dissertation for doctoral degree" depending upon the rules and regulations of an institute.
The Good Supervisor: Supervising Postgraduate and Undergraduate
This engaging book outlines effective strategies for supervising students on a wide variety of research projects, whether at undergraduate or postgraduate level. It covers each stage of the research journey and provides guidance on working with students to define research topics, select appropriate methodologies, write up theses and prepare for the viva. It also supports supervisors in ...
Supervisors for postgraduate research
Choosing a supervisor Productive thesis research depends on developing a successful collaboration between student and supervisor. The supervisor, or the principal supervisor in the case of co-supervision, must be an academic staff member in the Department of Psychology. Finding a supervisor for thesis research is a critical task, and before making a commitment to a particular project, students ...
How to Write a Masters Dissertation or Thesis: Top Tips
2. Structure your dissertation or thesis Writing a thesis is a unique experience and there is no general consensus on what the best way to structure it is. As a postgraduate student, you'll probably decide what kind of structure suits your research project best after consultation with your supervisor.
The Good Supervisor: Supervising Postgraduate and Undergraduate
This will be essential reading for supervisors of undergraduate or postgraduate research projects, dissertations and theses. It is also an ideal resource for student researchers looking to get the most out of their relationship with their supervisor.
Supervision
Supervision - for supervisors As a supervisor, you are the key person in your student's graduate degree program and have considerable influence in helping them achieve their full potential academically, intellectually, and professionally. Most faculty would agree that it is also one of the most fulfilling aspects of academic work.
Handbook for Research Postgraduate Studies
A. Appointment of the Thesis Supervisor Assignment. Each research postgraduate (RPg) student will be assigned a thesis supervisor who will oversee the student's research from the time the student embarks on his/her research. Prime supervisor The prime thesis supervisor must be a full-time member of the HKUST academic faculty. Subject to the approval of the respective Department Head and Dean ...
Ten simple rules for choosing a PhD supervisor
Despite procedural differences across countries, institutions, and programs, the following rules and discussions should remain helpful for guiding one's approach to selecting their future PhD supervisor. These guidelines mostly address how to evaluate a potential PhD supervisor and do not include details on how you might find a supervisor.
Writing a Postgraduate or Doctoral Thesis: A Step-by-Step Approach
A key characteristic looked after by postgraduate or doctoral students is how they communicate and defend their knowledge. Many candidates believe that there is insufficient instruction on constructing strong arguments. The thesis writing procedure must be...
Supervision
For students who enrolled after September 2019, a thesis committee is established withing six months of registration. The thesis committee supports the student-supervisor relationship and enhances the overall quality and rigour of the supervision process. It supports the academic progress of the student and provides guidance on their development as PhD researchers.
Postgraduate Supervisor
How can you get the most from your postgraduate supervisor? In this section of the site we provide a guide on doing this and more.
Supervisory feedback to postgraduate research students: a literature review
This study reports findings from a review of global literature on supervisory feedback to postgraduate research students. Three focus questions guided the review: students' problems in receiving feedback, perceptions of positive feedback strategies, and potential improvements to the feedback process. The review method combined a systematic ...
PDF Perceptions of Postgraduate Students on the Relationship Between Thesis
little is known about supervisors' performance dimensions and thesis development from a quantitative perspective. For this reason, this research aims to analyse the relationship between thesis development and supervisors' performances according to the perceptions of postgraduate students. A quantitative research methodology and a Spearman's rank correlation was used. A survey was ...
Supervisors' Written Feedback on Thesis Writing: Postgraduate Students
The postgraduate students' perceptions about supervisors' written feedback on thesis writing among respondents in this study were computed and reported in Table 27.3.
Postgraduate thesis
Postgraduate thesis Postgraduate students are required to complete an advanced postgraduate thesis research project. This project involves an independent investigation at an advanced level and may include research, design, feasibility or other analysis. It involves integration of knowledge and evaluation across a range of topics in the area of specialisation. For most students, this is the ...
COMMENTS
Abstract Each year, more students worldwide enter graduate school to complete their master's degree. A cornerstone of their education is the master's thesis. Respectively, master's thesis supervisors hold a key role in higher education teaching, yet no evidence-based overview currently exists of elements that make thesis supervision effective. Based on a systematic literature review, this ...
The key to a successful thesis experience often lies in choosing the right thesis supervisor. A supervisor plays a pivotal role in guiding students through the complex process, offering expertise, support, and valuable feedback. This article provides a roadmap for graduate students to navigate the search for an ideal thesis supervisor, ensuring ...
The MA thesis student and supervisor will discuss and attempt to resolve any conflicts as they arise. If, however, the MA thesis student or supervisor needs to terminate the relationship for any reason, the MA thesis student and supervisor agree to abide by one another's decision. If the MA thesis student or supervisor decides to terminate
Effective graduate student supervision requires complex interactions between graduate students and their supervisors. The role of a supervisor is threefold: to advise graduate students, monitor their academic progress, and act as a mentor. Supervisors not only provide guidance, instruction and encouragement in the research activities of their ...
This page contains detailed information about the role and responsibilities of a postgraduate supervisor, including research planning and thesis requirements. Its content is relevant to staff and students across all of the UK, China and Malaysia campuses.
A PhD supervisor can make or break a candidate's progress. Here's a complete guide to choosing an academic supervisor who fits best for you.
Chances are that postgraduate students meet their thesis supervisor/s only every few weeks, and for a limited amount of time. Therefore, it is extremely important to take full advantage of supervision meetings. The following tips help bachelor's, master's and PhD students to make the most of thesis supervision meetings.
Factors to Success in Thesis and Dissertation and the Roles of a Supervisor To achieve the master degree and doctoral degree, a graduate student must complete his/her own research called "thesis for master degree" and "dissertation for doctoral degree" depending upon the rules and regulations of an institute.
This engaging book outlines effective strategies for supervising students on a wide variety of research projects, whether at undergraduate or postgraduate level. It covers each stage of the research journey and provides guidance on working with students to define research topics, select appropriate methodologies, write up theses and prepare for the viva. It also supports supervisors in ...
Choosing a supervisor Productive thesis research depends on developing a successful collaboration between student and supervisor. The supervisor, or the principal supervisor in the case of co-supervision, must be an academic staff member in the Department of Psychology. Finding a supervisor for thesis research is a critical task, and before making a commitment to a particular project, students ...
2. Structure your dissertation or thesis Writing a thesis is a unique experience and there is no general consensus on what the best way to structure it is. As a postgraduate student, you'll probably decide what kind of structure suits your research project best after consultation with your supervisor.
This will be essential reading for supervisors of undergraduate or postgraduate research projects, dissertations and theses. It is also an ideal resource for student researchers looking to get the most out of their relationship with their supervisor.
Supervision - for supervisors As a supervisor, you are the key person in your student's graduate degree program and have considerable influence in helping them achieve their full potential academically, intellectually, and professionally. Most faculty would agree that it is also one of the most fulfilling aspects of academic work.
A. Appointment of the Thesis Supervisor Assignment. Each research postgraduate (RPg) student will be assigned a thesis supervisor who will oversee the student's research from the time the student embarks on his/her research. Prime supervisor The prime thesis supervisor must be a full-time member of the HKUST academic faculty. Subject to the approval of the respective Department Head and Dean ...
Despite procedural differences across countries, institutions, and programs, the following rules and discussions should remain helpful for guiding one's approach to selecting their future PhD supervisor. These guidelines mostly address how to evaluate a potential PhD supervisor and do not include details on how you might find a supervisor.
A key characteristic looked after by postgraduate or doctoral students is how they communicate and defend their knowledge. Many candidates believe that there is insufficient instruction on constructing strong arguments. The thesis writing procedure must be...
For students who enrolled after September 2019, a thesis committee is established withing six months of registration. The thesis committee supports the student-supervisor relationship and enhances the overall quality and rigour of the supervision process. It supports the academic progress of the student and provides guidance on their development as PhD researchers.
How can you get the most from your postgraduate supervisor? In this section of the site we provide a guide on doing this and more.
This study reports findings from a review of global literature on supervisory feedback to postgraduate research students. Three focus questions guided the review: students' problems in receiving feedback, perceptions of positive feedback strategies, and potential improvements to the feedback process. The review method combined a systematic ...
little is known about supervisors' performance dimensions and thesis development from a quantitative perspective. For this reason, this research aims to analyse the relationship between thesis development and supervisors' performances according to the perceptions of postgraduate students. A quantitative research methodology and a Spearman's rank correlation was used. A survey was ...
The postgraduate students' perceptions about supervisors' written feedback on thesis writing among respondents in this study were computed and reported in Table 27.3.
Postgraduate thesis Postgraduate students are required to complete an advanced postgraduate thesis research project. This project involves an independent investigation at an advanced level and may include research, design, feasibility or other analysis. It involves integration of knowledge and evaluation across a range of topics in the area of specialisation. For most students, this is the ...