[Caroline Kadu]

in reply to: Module 2, Session 2: Scholarly community of practice #5980

What is a scholar in your view? What does scholarship mean to you?
A scholar is one who engages in academic activities that would add to the knowledge of a particular field or discipline. Scholarship means a contract providing funding for academic work or proposed academic research to be done whose findings would add to the knowledge base of a particular field or discipline
What does it mean to be active in an academic community?
Being active in an academic community means participating in publishing academic articles, attending conferences geared to sharing new findings in a particular field, or just sharing new findings in various social forums
How can you introduce your students into this community? Is this part of the role of the supervisor?
Students get introduced into this community when you co-author with them as a supervisor. This can also happens when you attend conferences with them. It is an eventuality as the supervisor co-authors with the student. But it can also happen when collaborative projects are written.
What might a PG supervisor’s support network provide? How can such a network be built?
A PG supervisor’s network support network can provide and opportunity for collaborative research. This network can be built by referrals from the supervisor.
Have you had experience of academic jealousies? What were the effects and was it resolved?
No I have not but have heard of it from colleagues. Mainly in regard to the quest for promotions and acquisition of grants and publications are a requirement
How can you contribute to a more respectful and generous support network?
This can be done by seeking to do interdisciplinary collaborative research.

[Caroline Kadu]

in reply to: Module 1, Session 3: Models of supervision #5968

It is interesting to learn from the power point of the various types of supervision. I was more familiar with co-supervision for my MSc. Here my main supervisor at the institute where the research was being done carried the bulk of the responsibility in guiding and critiquing. The university supervisor was more influential on the format requirements of the university and the timelines to be kept. For my PhD I had almost the same scenario, However, at the research institute there were three supervisors I was working with. There was the supervisor from the funding institution who helped me submit reports on time. Then at the university I was registered there were two who also helped with the format requirements of the university as well as keeping the timelines. So I would say that this was more of the panel model. It would be interesting to experience some of the other models

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