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Supervisors are, as an absolute minimum, expected to read PhDs work in progress, give timely and constructive feedback and engage PhD students intellectually. But a University Post survey among international PhDs at the University of Copenhagen shows that a group of PhD students have little supervisor contact.<\/p>\n

There is wide variation in the frequency of communication betweeen PhD students and their supervisors, with lower supervisor contact in Humanities, Social Science and Law faculties. <\/p>\n

While most PhDs in these subjects talk to their supervisors less than once a week, one out of every six talk to their supervisors once a month – or never.<\/p>\n

Read article: Human science PhDs have less human contact<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Few complaints<\/h2>\n

PhD students in experimental science subjects in the faculties of Science, Life, Health and Pharma have far more contact with their supervisors.<\/p>\n

Three out of every four PhDs in the above lab-oriented subjects talk to their supervisor more than once a week, many more than once a day.<\/p>\n

For the minority of PhD students who have little contact with their supervisors, it may be their own choice: Among hundreds of comments in the comment field in our survey. Few PhD students actually complain<\/em> about having little supervision-<\/p>\n

miy@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n

Stay in the know about news and events happening in Copenhagen by signing up for the University Post\u2019s weekly newsletter here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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