This series of posts continues in the same spirit as my first series about supervising a Master's student at a research university. It is intended to help me organize my thoughts about supervising, but I also offer it as a potential resource to anyone who might want to conduct research into supervising. My colleagues tell me that such research is desperately needed (rather, knowledge translation between "research" and "how to supervise" seems broken), and this is my attempt to contribute something toward resolving that problem.
Although personality permeates the supervisory experience, personal and identifying details are deliberately obscured because, on the present Internet, their potential harms generalize more easily than their potential benefits.
Note: Unlike the previous Master's student, I am not officially supervising this student. The plan is for me to act as a language advisor with a suitable acknowledgement. The student already has multiple supervisors in different countries, and my department doesn't appear to have a formal accounting device to make this kind of formal inter-departmental supervisory relationship possible (although the paperwork does seem to exist at the doctoral level...). I also lack both the degrees and the up-to-date knowledge of the student's research area that would be required to do the substantial supervision properly.
As always, comments or questions in public or private are most welcome.
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