ABSTRACT
The nature of the supervision the author provide to PhD students during their training considerably varies through their time with the author, usually three to four years. Obviously, the supervising of an experimental science PhD, which will still have or should have a strong theoretical basis, will be different from guiding pure theoretical/computational/simulation postgraduates. The latter will spend a lot of their time sitting in front of computer workstations, whereas experimentalists may be constructing apparatus or synthesising new chemical compounds or purifying biochemical complexes or preparing biological specimens. Objective measures, like whether they presented a talk at a conference, will be available to be evidence based in the authors writing of references. Also, there will hopefully be publications they have contributed to. But more subjectively, they know how much help the student had needed with the writing of their thesis chapters.
