The person in charge of matching MSc students with research projects is now seeking research projects for the next batch of students. I was invited to present some opportunities to students on almost no notice several hours before a conference paper was due, and so declined the opportunity.
I do have a couple of data gathering projects to which I could deploy students, but they are not yet written up. My PhD supervisor has mixed feelings about using in this way (she said she was too close to the projects on which previous students had worked). I have resolved to come up with two options during the break. One is a "fire and forget" project in which my expectations would be that the student(s) tell me something interesting about a broadly defined problem at one of my research sites. The other would be a detailed data collection exercise that would be useful any time in the next two years.
It has also been suggested that supervise a MSc student directly to do some of the above research.
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