ABSTRACT
This chapter presents ideas promoting the practice of relinquishing sole proprietary over graduate students as well as strategies for supervisor repositioning. It highlights the necessity of supervisors accepting their strengths and weaknesses as it relates to research and administrative supervisory functions. The chapter discusses ideas relating to the promotion of supervisee independence such as interacting with other scholars within academic spheres and externally. It offers suggestions about determining how much intervention is necessary from supervisors and the point at which supervisors should promote supervisee autonomy. Critical to notions of supervisors relinquishing sole proprietary is helping supervisees develop autonomy. Four graduate research supervisors provided reflections pertinent to acknowledging the need for contextual repositioning of supervisors. Supervisor repositioning can also be demonstrated by promoting supervisee independence and seeking input from other scholars, and this can be enhanced through reflection on personal experience.
