HEDS Colleagues Dr Suzy Paisley (top left), Dr Katy Cooper (bottom right) and Professor Aki Tsuchiya (top right) are among ScHARR supervisors and professional services staff have been recognised by their doctoral students in a new initiative led by the Think Ahead team at the University of Sheffield. They led a project called #SuperVisionaries to find out about and share examples of good supervision and its impact on doctoral researchers. The Think Ahead team asked all the doctoral students at the University of Sheffield to tell them who was doing a great job and making a difference, and received over 200 responses!
Dr Guccione who was involved in the project commented, “It’s important to recognise that there are reasons a great supervisor may not have been recognised, and that there are excellent supervisors in ScHARR who are not featured here. Awareness of the project might not be uniform across all PGRs, or perhaps student-supervisor teams are in the regular habit of saying thanks to each other personally, rather than anonymously.”
So whilst there will be other examples of excellence in supervision that were not put forward for this project, it is great to see so many supervisors and professional services staff recognised for their hard work in supporting students.