Episode 6 – 24/7? Boundaries, Availability and Managing Expectations

Doctoral supervision is a considerable responsibility, one that begins even before a candidate’s first day.
From recruitment onwards, supervision is a joint effort: setting clear expectations, agreeing on roles and ways of working, being available when support is needed and guiding candidates towards independence. But how can supervisors remain accessible without being on call around the clock, and when is it right to say no? Our host Lynn Chiu speaks with Alice Vadrot (Department of Political Science) and Claus Lamm (Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology). They share their experiences of managing expectations from the hiring process onwards, of working with very different doctoral candidates and supervision cultures, and of how doctoral supervision has changed over the past decades.