This workshop provides invaluable guidance on how to communicate effectively with your supervisor. The relationship between graduate student and supervisor is one of the most critical parts of a graduate student’s life and nurturing this relationship depends in part on open and mutually respectful communication. Graduate students share responsibility with their supervisor for maintaining direct, frequent, and clear communications and this workshop provides tips and strategies on how to cultivate an effective supervisory-student relationship.
Taking a multicultural focus, the workshop will seek to provide information on the areas listed above, and to provide case-studies to illustrate some of the challenges of supervisory-student communication with practical suggestions on problem solving and avenues for assistance if communication breaks down. Tips on how to manage the intercultural elements of the student-supervisory relationship will also be discussed.