A scholar is a fellow who is engaging in academic work. This involves research and publishing articles or books. A scholar also shares their knowledge with students in the institutions of higher learning. Scholarship is the process of doing scholarly work. Sometimes used to refer to the financial assistance to a scholar.
Being active in an academic community simply implies ones participation in continuous research in their own field. This involves mostly academic publications in peer reviewed journals.
A supervisor should introduce their student to their research community. This will enable the student to gather more knowledge from the rest of the community members.
PG supervisor’s support could assist the supervisor with new ways and tools to use in their supervision. Since this will comprise of several supervisors who come with their own ways of supervision, this would be a learning ground for supervisors. This network of supervisors can be formed based on region or based on academic field. Different fields would exercise different strategies for supervision and therefore helps to have a network working in similar areas of research. I have never heard of academic jealousies and therefore I would not say I have experienced the same.
