ABSTRACT
This chapter describes, elements of the functional approach, identifying some of the practices that experienced academics have found help their students towards completing research projects. There has been a movement towards various collective provisions of research training and it cites evidence that there is a movement towards the functional paradigm of supervision, even across the soft disciplines. Some universities have clear workload models which include supervision as a teaching activity. Often service providers can be a small or invisible section of the university and it is wise to brief them and raise the profile of postgraduate research students. In the UK the formal transfer from MPhil to a doctoral programme is a useful milestone for doctoral research. The chapter focuses more on procedures around ethics in research. It looks particularly at preparing for the scrutiny that ethical committees provide and make some comment on the ethics involved in joint publishing.
