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Contract

Postgraduate Research Programme  

MPhil/PhD SUPERVISION AGREEMENT   

 

This agreement represents statements of intent only, and the implied obligations are only what a supervisor and student could reasonably be expected to meet under normal circumstances  

 

This is an agreement between  

 

Student: Hilra Vinha                                                                           

And: 

Supervisor 1:   Melanie Nind 

Supervisor 2:   — N/A — 

Start date:       November 2006                     Status:   in force  

1. What are the supervisor’s contributions to the research and learning experience?  Do any specific arrangements need to be made? Does anything need to be clarified?

  • Theoretical background building support
  • Literature indication
  • Critical thinking support
  • Student’s contextual insertion
  • Critical review of student’s writings
  • Rethink the project (support and critical analysis)

2. What is the student’s contribution to the research and learning experience? Do any specific arrangements need to be made? Does anything need to be clarified?

  • Drive the project
  • Be proactive
  • Theoretical review
  • Empirical study
  • Data collection
  • Data analysis
  • Writings/thesis
  • Take core and some elective units of the research training program, specially Gill Clarke’s (Biography)
  • Get the best of the support

3. How often are formal supervisory meetings going to be held?

  • Fortnightly

 4. Who is going to attend these meetings?

  • Supervisor, student and other students/staff eventually

5. How are these meeting as going to be recorded? 

  • Written notes (minutes), initially by supervisor, but gradually the student will take the responsibility for taking notes and making records.
  • Tape recorded meetings when necessary/applicable

6. Will the student send written work to the supervisors prior to the meeting for discussion? How many days prior to the meeting should this be sent?

  • Yes. 3 days prior to the meeting, by e-mail.

7. Does the student have any additional teaching duties? Would they like to take up this opportunity?

  • The student would like to take up the opportunity as soon as she feels confident to do so. Have a word about this in six month time.

8. How will the student access the main supervisor for unscheduled meetings and advice?

  • By e-mail (or telephone when suitable)
  • Student will inform beforehand when/if needs to cancel a meeting

9. Are there any specific Intellectual Property Rights which need to be discussed?

  • Supervisor encourages student to be the author, and the authorship will reflect the involvement in the production, in other words, will be shared when this reflects the reality of the work conception.

10. Who will meet obligations to funding bodies such as writing interim and final reports? What are the dates for such obligations?

  • Supervisor will check the regulations for the studentship.

11. When will the student present her/his research to colleagues in SoE?

  • When student is ready. It will be negotiable, but as soon as possible.

12. Indicate the approximate dates of submission of the first drafts of the Introduction (including a review of literature) and the Methods sections of the thesis Introduction:   

  •  At the end of first year (?)                               Methods:     

13. What are the approximate dates for completion of data collection and submission of thesis?

  • Data collection:    At the end of second year (?)                                Submission:     

14. When work is presented at conferences: Who is going to write a draft abstract? Who will be authors? What will be the order of the authors? 

  • In accordance with question 9

15. When work is submitted for publication: Who will write the first draft of the manuscript? Who will be corresponding author? What will be the order of authors?

  • In accordance with question 9

16. If the student is dissatisfied with supervision and has been unable to resolve it with the supervisor, who will the student consult? (This item does not limit the right of the student to use the normal complaints procedures within the University).

  • Firstly with supervisor herself
  • With the Director Research Degrees Programme (Mike Grenfell), or the Programme Tutor (Jane Seal), or the Head of theSchool of
    Education

17. Outline any other issues that are relevant to this research  

  • Student expressed her concerns about her lack of confidence and fluence in English, and her awareness of the need to improve to take the best of the programme.

 Supervision agreement  

The student and supervisor(s) have met and agreed the above issues   

Student: HV

Supervisor:  MN 

Date: 15/11/2006  (to be confirmed) 

Notes by HV