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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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.
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.
