UEF offers a lot of training, courses and guidance to support doctoral researchers in their work (e.g. information retrieval, data protection and management, statistics, writing, publishing).
Make sure that
- your supervisee knows
- what good scientific practice and its violations mean in practice
- what are her/his GDPR compliant responsibilities related to processing of personal data (if applicable)
- what research permits s/he needs to perform the research (if applicable)
- you have agreed on
- the authorship of the scientific articles to be included in the dissertation (if applicable)
- usage rights of the co-produced data (see Agreements between researchers by Finnish Social Science Data Archive)
- storing, archiving, further use, and ownership of the research data
Your supervisee will receive guidance on research ethics in Kamu and on the course Research ethics.
Doctoral researchers are more than twice likely to develop a common psychiatric disorder compared to other comparison groups in higher education (Levecque et al. 2017). The major stress factors are uncertainty of career prospects as well as difficulty to maintain a work–life balance (Nature, 2019). Overly stressed doctoral researcher is a risk: indisposition leads to procrastination, and later on to burn out or drop out.
Therefore:
- Inquire after your supervisee regularly (also in informal setting e.g. coffee breaks)
- Be interested, listen, encourage, inspire. Do not press.
- Encourage in maintaining balance between work and leisure. A well-being doctoral researcher is an efficient doctoral researcher. Learn more about university sport services.
- Discuss your supervisee’s career prospects. If necessary, guide to the career courses provided by the Doctoral School.
- Enhance networking with other doctoral researchers (e.g. UEF Doctoral Student Association) or finding other social networks.
See also:
- Successful supervision
- Wellbeing of doctoral researchers
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