Supervising student research can be a rewarding experience, but it's not a role that comes naturally to everyone. In today's HE environment, it's more important than ever that supervisors recognize and are able to manage diversity in learning styles, gender, age and culture. The Good Supervisor will help you develop strategies for effective supervision with a diversity of students on a wide variety of research projects, whether at postgraduate or undergraduate level, and will encourage you to reflect on and enhance your research supervision practice.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
STAGE 1: FIRST STAGES OF RESEARCH SUPERVISION - GETTING STARTED
Supervision Differences
Supervisors Studying: Development Programmes
Establishing and Maintaining Good Supervisory Practices
STAGE 2: ESTABLISHING RESEARCH PROCESSES AND PRACTICES
Defining Titles, Research Questions, Conceptual Frameworks and Developing Proposals
Enabling Students to Carry Out a Successful Literature Review and a Theoretical Perspectives Chapter
Methodology, Methods and Ethics
Supervisory Dialogues
Encouraging Good Writing
STAGE 3: WORKING WITH STUDENTS - ISSUES FOR SUPERVISORS
Helping Students to Help Themselves and Each Other
Dealing with Difference: Working with Different Kinds of Learners and Learning Styles
Supervising International Students
Study and Support at a Distance
Gender and Research Studies
A Little too Close to Home: Supervising your Colleagues and/or Other Practice/Professional-based Research
New Ways: Supervising Creative Research Work and the PhD by Publication
Maintaining Momentum
STAGE 4: MANAGING THE RESEARCH PROCESS TO COMPLETION AND BEYOND
Writing Up the Thesis or Dissertation
The Examination Process and Examiners
Supporting Students Towards a Successful PhD Viva
Supporting your Student post Viva/Exam
Life after Research
References
Index

GINA WISKER is Director of Learning and Teaching Development, and MA Women's Studies coordinator at Anglia Polytechnic University, where she also teaches English. She is an Oxford centre for Staff and Learning development consultant, running workshops worldwide on learning and teaching, particularly on supervising postgraduates. She is author of a number of books and articles including The Postgraduate Research Handbook, and is co-editor and committee chair of the SEDA journal Innovations in Education and Teaching International.