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Resource Pack On Supervising Postgraduate Students, Roisin Donnelly, Marian Fitzmaurice
Resource Pack On Supervising Postgraduate Students, Roisin Donnelly, Marian Fitzmaurice
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There are a range of emergent issues and practices in the supervisory role over the past number of years. This academic resource pack is research-informed and focuses on development needs for supervisors of postgraduate students. Research supervision has previously been regarded by academics as a private space (Stehlik, 2001). It has been seen as an intense, individual relationship between a research supervisor (master) and a research student (apprentice/protégé). More teachers now acknowledge the teaching aspect of their role as a supervisor and attempt to act as a mentor, facilitator and coach (Pearson & Brew, 2002).