ABSTRACT
In a culturally, socio-economically and geographically diverse Pacific region, research supervision is a challenging journey. This chapter introduces the research climate, demographics of supervisors and supervisees, and supervision pedagogies practiced at the University of the South Pacific (USP). As three senior researchers from the faculties of Science, Commerce and Humanities, we share our insights by reflecting on the supervisory journey, providing an opportunity to explore what it takes for a student to succeed. The key areas for reflection include setting up rules and its correlation with student quality, impact of university policies and procedures (if any) on research and supervision process, and re-thinking supervisory process. We then interrogate our reflections and offer recommendations to supervisors at all levels as well as research offices in their respective faculties. An attempt is made to critique our own supervision practices with suggestions to improve future pedagogies. Finally, the chapter presents a comparison of the learning environment and supervision pedagogies contextualised within the three faculties at USP.
