ABSTRACT
How do international master’s dissertation students and their supervisors experience supervision? What highs and lows do they encounter on their journey? Why? And what are the implications of their experiences for universities in terms of their supervisory policies, the kind of students they enrol, the nature of the dissertations they require, and the curriculum of their master’s programmes in general? These are the questions we address in this book, as we report the findings of a year of speaking to both supervisees and their supervisors, studying the students’ dissertation draft chapters and the supervisors’ feedback, and examining the official and not so official supervision policies in four different departments in the social sciences and humanities at a UK research-intensive university.
