ABSTRACT
Supervision is a critical success factor in the pathways to impact from doctoral research. With the evolution in the form of supervision from a master-apprentice model to team, or for professional doctorates group supervision, so the role of the supervisor has grown. This is an inevitable result of the greater diversity of the doctoral student body and the institutional expectations of the role. Supervisor training to meet these diverse requirements is typically weak, focusing on functional compliance tasks rather than the development of the relationship that is more likely to support impact.
