Doctoral supervision

How it is used

Used in graduate education to describe meetings, feedback, research planning, ethics, milestones, and professional development.

Example sentences

1. The department reviewed its doctoral supervision practices after several students reported unclear feedback on chapter drafts.

   Here the term refers to the structured support system for PhD students, including how supervisors comment on written work.

2. Effective doctoral supervision helped him narrow his research question before he collected any interview data.

   In this sentence, the term highlights guidance that improves the direction and feasibility of a student's research project.

Common collocations

• effective doctoral supervision
• doctoral supervision practices
• doctoral supervision meeting

Related terms

• supervisorAn academic who guides a student's thesis or research project, giving feedback on plans, drafts and progress.
• PhDDoctor of Philosophy: the highest university research degree, awarded after several years of original research and a thesis.

More terms: Graduate Study and Supervision

• postgraduate
• research proposal
• thesis defense
• grant
• thesis committee
• research assistant
• faculty
• qualifying exam
• coursework
• doctoral candidate
• graduate student