Seminar: 'Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Gender and Language Study'

[Nina Offergeld]

Dear Paul,
in Germany, PhD meetings would be common in 2 to 3 months slots. During the
first year, these slots might be more flexible.
I am working at the university and doing my PhD at the same time, so that my
supervisor and I agreed on 2-3 months slots.
Personally, I consider shorter periods a problem; this, however, might be due to
my work as a staff member of our department.
Hope that is of help.
Best wishes,

Nina Offergeld


Zitat von "Baker, Paul" <j.p.baker at LANCASTER.AC.UK>:

>
>
> Hi Jane,
>
> I have a couple of questions about supervising PhD topics on the distance
> taught PhD programme.
>
> How often should I be in contact with my student (and should I wait to
> contact him or should I say things like "I'll expect a report from you every
> 2 weeks" and if I don't hear from him I should contact him myself? Is there a
> timetable of expectations of things he should have achieved by the first
> year? At the moment, he's reading round and thinking about possible topics,
> but I'm getting slightly concerned that things aren't moving as fast as they
> should be and the lack of face-to-face contact makes it difficult to gauge
> what's going on. However, I'm aware that this works differently to a typical
> PhD so it may be fine!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul.
>
>


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Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg
Institut für Fremdsprachliche Philologien
Englische Sprachwissenschaft
Nina Offergeld
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