• What kind of problems are encountered while undertaking postgraduate study?
• How are these problems best avoided or resolved?
• How can the student/supervisor relationship be improved?

This practical guide is based on a series of successful workshops on postgraduate supervision and presents the most frequently encountered difficulties in the student/supervisor relationship. Detailed but concise case studies offer realistic solutions to the thirty issues discussed, including:

• Conflict
• Culture
• Distance
• Funding
• Isolation
• Language
• Management
• Plagiarism
• Priority
• Time
• Transfer
• Write-up

Each case study raises important questions to generate discussion, and suggests solutions and preventative measures. The book also includes a section that shows how the case studies can be used in a teaching workshop setting.

Effective Postgraduate Supervision is essential reading for supervisors of postgraduate degrees including those at masters and doctoral level as well as prospective and current postgraduate research students.