PhD Supervisor
- Who they are
- A senior academic guiding a thesis over years, invested in the student and the contribution.
- Decides
- Sign-off
- Wins them
- A clear research question and why it matters.
- A contribution that can be stated plainly.
- Loses them
- Literature summarised rather than used.
- Findings without a "so what".
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