From “hot to get a PhD” by Philliphs and Pugh.
Risks of having two supervisors:
- diffusion of responsibility
- conflicting advice
- playing one supervisor off against another
- lack of an overall academic view
“Golden rules” (p.111)
- Insist on preliminary joint meeting where all three of you discuss how the project should develop
- Ensure that your two supervisors have (at the very last) telephone contact with each other once a term
- Try to arrange a three-way meetings once a year
- Always send each supervisor a copy of what you are currently writing but make it clear whenether it is for “information only” or “for comments”. This will, of course, depend on how you have agreed to divide the work between your supervisors.
- Keep each of them informed of what you are doing and how they are responding to that work
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