It was my experience as a postdoc at multiple universities that postdocs are ethereal, all but ignored by the dept and Uni we were in, and completely left to the whims of our advisors/PIs. I was lucky to have good advisors at Penn State, instrumental in me building my career.
Postgraduate students and postdocs: are you formally surveyed or asked for feedback by your institution about the quality of relationship with your supervisor? This might include formal performance feedback, or general questions in a survey, focus groups, or other activity
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Thanks for sharing! Until recent changes, universities in Australia did not seek feedback from postdocs and students (& still few do). If there's issues with their supervisor, it doesn't get picked up early, plus this limits junior scholars' input into shaping workplace culture
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I think you have really hit on one of the weakest links in academia, and I appreciate your poll. I'm surprised at how many faculty don't appreciate how much a postdoc (and their career) depends on a supportive supervisor, and how invisible postdocs are to administration.
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Agreed. It's not good logic by universities. Postgrads are students though many of them are paid to do teaching and research. (Either way they should still be surveyed!) But postdocs are unambiguously employees. Relationship with manager is part of the working condition.
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Number of meetings - not quality of the supervision.
So I take it they don't ask things like: are you experiencing issues, how likely are you to finish, do you know all the leave and other entitlements available to you. That's the type of stuff they should ideally ask -
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Yikes! I appreciate the offer, Annika, but I think I get the picture. It sounds like there's not a lot of thought into improving experiences for postgrads.
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Our supervisors review whatever is written before it is submitted to the department. So yes we are asked but I'm not sure how honest anyone is
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