How to annoy your PhD supervisor | You are probably doing one!

In this video, I talk about the six ways that you could potentially annoy your PhD supervisor and how to keep yourself on track.
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▼ ▽ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - not turning up to meetings
2:00 - not being in the office or lab
3:58 - not being prepared for a meeting
6:22 - having nothing new to report four weeks
8:37 - unnecessarily combative
10:16 - no papers on the horizon

[@janswanton3631]

Real world Supervisor hasn't turned up to two of the 5 supervisions I had booked. Clearly forgot! Although I send an agenda with questions a good week in advance, supervisor has never even read it, let alone prepared. Although I minute supervisions with action points and dates for completion, supervisor never acts on them. For example, I am still asking after nearly a year, if he can recommend some good books on theory! Yeti! I always have to rigorously chase replies to emails requesting a supervision. He never opens nor reads my emails. No idea why! He has also said he discourages contact between supervisions. Supervisor never engages in discussion. Never offers opinions, let alone ideas. Just wants me to talk about my personal experiences in the 60s! So....everything you say applies to supervisors as well as students! Thanks as ever, Andy. You stop me going mad with frustration. I just feel so isolated!

[@chippydolphin]

I feel like supervisors literally see PhD students as walking papers 😵‍💫🤪

[@PhD_Author]

I had a supervisor who’d never turn up! Nightmare to have to confront her.

[@nurshakirahkz1573]

Thank you for your advice.. You're my saviour! Keep em coming

[@manjulakamath]

Hey Andy, I've been following your videos for a while. I had a request for you - could you make a playlist with your videos in the order that a new PhD student should watch them. There's a lot of information and idk what's the best video to rewatch. Thanks and sending lots of positivity your way!

[@DrAndyStapleton]

Ill work on adding playlists in the near future. Thank you for the suggestion.

[@manjulakamath]

@@DrAndyStapleton Thanks, Andy! ☺️

[@ezmath7231]

very informative video....

[@bhagyashrijoshi1482]

Nice advice... but bit late in my PhD program... better late than never

[@uddhavsurve2974]

That video title though 😂😂

[@Its_InduB]

Hey great advices..noted😅...but can u advice how to keep calm with annoying fellow group colleagues in start of phd

[@veronicaspaulding209]

Your advice is always helpful. What would you say about a supervisor pushing a paper at a certain level but you think it's not ready yet. If you disagree on the robustness of data, or there are setbacks, reproducibility issues, yet they seem to just want to wrap it up and get it out?

[@mohebts7206]

hello guys which text editor is the best for writing a PhD

[@drawde5762]

i started my PhD 3 weeks ago and im doing literature review but i am paranoid and worried about the fact that I am just reading research papers and not making notes on them. I just print papers off and highlight key points that I think are important and I use Mendeley just as a online storage bank for all my papers:/ is this okay? Is handwritten or typed notetaking of research papers really necessary?

[@benjaminsteenhoek3842]

You’re doing great! Taking notes can help you retain and understand the ideas in a paper. Remember that you’re a researcher, not a “paper reader”, and so your goal is not to read as many papers as possible but to gain as much useful information as possible. Every paper you read, you should first sit down and ask yourself “what am I hoping to learn from this paper, and what can I use in my own research?” In this way, you can be selective and only spend time reading when it will benefit your own research. Write down some questions that you hope the paper will answer and then as you read, try to answers those questions. Don’t read top to bottom but rather skip around read the parts that are most valuable to you, then skim the rest just so you have the context to understand the valuable parts. Also see the three pass method, which I have found helpful: web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m/Handouts/HowtoReadPaper.pdf Finally, remember that research takes time and there’s no way to get around it, so as long as you are putting in good, focused time as much as you can, you are on the right track.😁 Good luck

[@drawde5762]

@@benjaminsteenhoek3842 thank you very much

[@igorsilva9654]

A good advice I received at the beginning of my PhD is to interact with papers. Organize a bunch of 3-5 papers of similar topics, resume them and write about how they interact with each other, the similarities and constrast. At the same time you are training your writing skills, you’re preparing material for your bibliographical chapter of your thesis. However, it is also important to identify if you really need to read deeply a particular article or not. Side topics can be covered just in a broadly way.

[@jessicageller320]

my supervisor does not respond to my emails and whatsapp. he just ignores me. i dont know what to do

[@VladyslavKL]

🕊

[@seeker452]

My supervisor Amardip Ghosh from IIT Kharagpur is really an abnormal

[@hamzaelfadili-7875]

Very useful doctor , what is your field of research ?

[@CykelSierra]

If I remember correctly, his doctorate was about solar cells in aqueous solution, so a mix of chemistry and engineering.

[@Drganguli]

You shouldn’t be telling this to the students lol

[@vulpes6144]

One easy, simple way: speak your mind.

[@xaharxeruji3441]

Becoming a Yeti.... Hahahahaha