Based on almost 2 years of interviews with current and former PhD students, supervisors along with lots and lots of conversations on supervision, I offer you a series of episodes on supervision.

In the first episode, I explore a series of critical “don’ts” that both PhD students and their supervisors should be aware of to ensure a healthier, more productive PhD journey. In the following episode, I will be offering up lots of solutions or rather the dos of supervision. Then there will be an episode on all the cases where it’s not clear what the best solution is, or the solution is rather different depending on context: I am calling them the in-betweens. In this fourth episode I will be talking to a sort of PhD coach, who has lots of experience with supervising and thinking about supervision. A final short episode will offer us a list of 10 key things that supervisors and PhD students need – the 10 commandments of supervision, if you will.

Based on almost 2 years of interviews with current and former PhD students, supervisors along with lots and lots of conversations on supervision, I offer you a series of episodes on supervision.

In the first episode, I explore a series of critical “don’ts” that both PhD students and their supervisors should be aware of to ensure a healthier, more productive PhD journey. In the following episode, I offer up lots of solutions or rather the dos of supervision. Then there will be an episode on all the cases where it’s not clear what the best solution is, or the solution is rather different depending on context: I am calling them the in-betweens. In a fourth episode I will be talking to a sort of PhD coach, who has lots of experience with supervising and thinking about supervision. In this final short episode I offer a list of 10 key things that supervisors and PhD students need – the 10 commandments of supervision, if you will.

The 10 Commandments of Supervision

The voice at the end is Pedro G. Duarte (Insper), featured in several of the other parts of the series.

Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music): Education – upbeat positive (short ver.), Awakening (loop ver.3) and Dreamy Day (loop ver.2) by AudioCoffee: https://freesound.org/s/712212/ License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0

To check out Mamma Mu, the children’s books I mention at the end, go here.

Based on almost 2 years of interviews with current and former PhD students, supervisors along with lots and lots of conversations on supervision, I offer you a series of episodes on supervision.

In the first episode, I explore a series of critical “don’ts” that both PhD students and their supervisors should be aware of to ensure a healthier, more productive PhD journey. In the following episode, I offer lots of solutions or rather the dos of supervision. This episode covers all the cases where it’s not clear what the best solution is, or the solution is rather different depending on context: I am calling them the in-betweens. In a fourth episode I will be talking to a sort of PhD coach, who has lots of experience with supervising and thinking about supervision. A final short episode will offer us a list of 10 key things that supervisors and PhD students need – the 10 commandments of supervision, if you will.

The Inbetween Cases of Supervision:

Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music): Evolution by AudioCoffee — https://freesound.org/s/704874/ — License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0

Based on almost 2 years of interviews with current and former PhD students, supervisors along with lots and lots of conversations on supervision, I offer you a series of episodes on supervision.

In the first episode, I explore a series of critical “don’ts” that both PhD students and their supervisors should be aware of to ensure a healthier, more productive PhD journey. In this second episode, I offer up lots of solutions or rather the dos of supervision. Then there will be an episode on all the cases where it’s not clear what the best solution is, or the solution is rather different depending on context: I am calling them the in-betweens. In a fourth episode I will be talking to a sort of PhD coach, who has lots of experience with supervising and thinking about supervision. A final short episode will offer us a list of 10 key things that supervisors and PhD students need – the 10 commandments of supervision, if you will.

The Dos of Supervision

Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music): Awakening (loop ver.3) by AudioCoffee — https://freesound.org/s/762743/ — License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0

Based on almost 2 years of interviews with current and former PhD students and supervisors along with lots and lots of conversations on supervision, I offer you a series of episodes on supervision.

In this first episode, I explore a series of critical “don’ts” that both PhD students and their supervisors should be aware of to ensure a healthier, more productive PhD journey. In the following episode, I will be offering up lots of solutions or rather the dos of supervision. Then there will be an episode on all the cases where it’s not clear what the best solution is, or the solution is rather different depending on context: I am calling them the in-betweens. In a fourth episode I will be talking to a sort of PhD coach, who has lots of experience with supervising and thinking about supervision. A final short episode will offer us a list of 10 key things that supervisors and PhD students need – the 10 commandments of supervision, if you will.

The Don’ts of Supervision

Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music):

Check out this trailer for a miniseries on supervision coming very soon!

The voices featured in the trailer are Charles Rose, Pedro Garcia Duarte and Bianca Maria Fontana. Stay tuned for more thoughts, discussions and insightful voices!

Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music): Bright Morning Energy by LolaMoore License: Attribution 4.0

In this episode, Maria Bach interviews Timothée Parrique about his PhD thesis and book on the Political Economy of Degrowth. They also discuss the importance of writing skills, and breaking academic rules and disciplinary boundaries.

Here are Parrique’s favourite books on writing:

In episode 40, Raphaël Fèvre also discusses the importance of learning how to write.

If you’re interested in economics and planetary boundaries, you should check out episode 26 when we interviewed Herman Daly.

In this episode, I talk to professors Sirohi’s and Gupta’s book on development discourses from India and Latin America.

As mentioned in the episode, here is the poem translated at the beginning of the last chapter:

Problems of Underdevelopment

Monsieur Dupont calls you uncultured
because you cannot tell who was
Victor’s Hugo’s favourite grandson.
Herr Müller has started to scream
because you do not know (exactly)
the day that Bismarck died.
Your friend Mr. Smith
an Englishman or Yankee, I cannot tell,
becomes incensed when you write Shell.
(It seems you leave out an “l”
and, what’s more, you pronounce it chel.)
Okay, and what of it?
When it’s your turn,
make them say cacarajícara
and ask them where is the Aconcagua
and who was Sucré
and just where on this planet
did Martí die.
And please:
tell them to always speak to you in Spanish.
 
Nicolás Guillén
 
 
Trans. by Rahul Sirohi and Sonya Surabhi Gupta

In this episode, Maria talks to Raphaël Fèvre who published a book with Oxford University Press, pictured above, based on his PhD research.

For advice on writing a book, see the following books:

In this episode, Maria interviews Eric Helleiner to discuss his current research on writing a deeper global history of the field of International Political Economy. We mainly discuss his latest two books pictured above, The Contested World Economy and The Neomercantilists.