This woman could read the phone book and I'd still watch her videos. Her voice is mesmerizing.

As a PhD student, I loved this video. Again: I loved this video. I'm just baffled by the fact that someone with a freaking RESTRAINING ORDER was allowed to continue their PhD, and even through continuing harassment to their new supervisor! Why would any university let someone like that even graduate?

Wonderful. Oddly, I'm a middle aged man who is almost certainly finished with my formal education, but your wisdom, enthusiasm and humor make me want to head back to school to work on earning a Ph.D.

I am at another Uni, but have decided to adopt and stalk these videos, your vibrancy is amazing.

Thank you. As a PhD student who has had a good relationship so far, this was the video I needed to make my relationship even greater.

I heard that motivation from the student is key to success. However, what happens when the supervisor crushes the student's motivation?

Tara, I started crying when you said (she wrote 13000 words in two years and a half) I'm now at the beginning of the third year and I have only written around 9000 words. My supervisor stopped the regular meeting in her office and asked me to send her an e-mail about the progress every other weeks. I'm really struggling because I'm international student and the two supervisors have nothing to do with my field. I really miss the guidance. Thank you very much for this KZfaq. The story of the student was really inspirational and emotional, it gave me a hope that I could do it. I came across your channel from your precious article (10 truths a PhD supervisor will never tell you). Thank you Tara for sharing your experience, advice, tips . Thank you from the depth of my heart for your honest support and supervision for that broken, hopeless student. It is really a miracle. God bless you.

This is an incredible resource for PhD students. Thanks a million Tara. You are an amazing presenter. Your students are blessed to have you as their supervisor.

You are obviously a gift to us Tara. (No response required.)

You are amazing Tara as that student sounded extremely troubled and having been in welfare in my past life, it does concern me how ill-prepared and suited some students are for uni. It really is an injustice to those who are around them. Take care x

Thanks for taking the time out and make this contribution. You're making the lives of so many PhD students better.🙏

This is the first comment I’ve ever written in KZfaq. You’re really great Tara and your motivation really drives me! Your videos are very helpful

Tara, I came across your channel from your precious article (10 truths a PhD supervisor will never tell you). Thank you Tara for sharing your experience, advice and tips . Thank you from the depth of my heart for your honest support and supervision for that broken, hopeless student. It is really a miracle that you both could work it out. God bless you. I really started crying when you said (she wrote 13000 words in two years and a half) I'm now at the beginning of the third year and I have only written around 9000 words. My supervisor stopped the regular meeting in her office and asked me to send her only e-mails about the progress every other weeks. But I did not miss any thing, because usually the meeting lasts no more than 13 min. I'm really struggling because I'm international student and the two supervisors have nothing to do with my field. I really miss the guidance. Thank you very much for this KZfaq. The story of the student was really inspirational and emotional, it gave me a hope that I could do it.

The biggest revelation ever! Thank you for opening my eyes!

I am an incoming Ph.D. student and I am really glad I came across this video. I have a good feeling your tips will really help me develop a meaningful and productive relationship with my supervisor.

You have such an amazing personality, Tara. Thank you for sharing your experiences and knowledge. Your videos make me reflect deeply. Thank you

OMW! You are so amazing, I am so lucky to have stumbled upon your videos. Thank you for all the eye opening information

Thank you, Tara for this inspiring talk. That student from your example is very lucky to be rescued from the crisis. I love your vlog and am grateful for your advice and great support.

I’m new in this channel and so in love with Prof Tara. Thank you for your insight

This video is so great I wish I could hug you. It helped me A LOT. I'm about to start, so those tips were gold. Thank you. Thank you Thank you.

Absolutely wonderful ...love you too Tara

Professor, thank you for all the wisdom and advices

Where have you been all my life? Spot on with the list. I am a professor in the biomedical research field & the best way to upset me is to be frequently absent & away from the lab, insert too many unfounded opinions at lab meetings rather than actual work, act like you know everything about my research when it is obvious you don’t, generate sloppy data & writing, expect me to approve this kind of output & then get upset when I don’t. All students & advisors should watch this.

What a lady !!! @Tara you are the reason I am now going take the PhD on .. huge motivation Xoxo!!!

Brilliantly presents golden tips to help us, the students to attain insight into the Supervisor's mind... Greetings from South Africa...

Best advice ever. Much Love and thank you so much

I love you Tara, I wish I could do some research under your supervision, even if it's a short term one.

Thank you so much for this vlog! It will make all the difference in helping me to form a good relationship with my supervisor and make the most out of my research project.

Extremely thank you!!! If I could do PhD with peace, it will be because of you. It is necessary for a student to understand their mistakes. I understood mine. I hope others will also do. Just one thing, I would want to add here is, there are some supervisors who doesn't talk much or doesn't expresses what they want from a student. Being a student, I can only understand when the supervisor will tell me what is her expectations... Still, I respect my supervisors and got a great respect for you that you highlighted very important issues from the supervisor's point of view. It will help me to help my supervisor to help me getting my PhD.

You are fabulous. The problem with my advisor that I have encountered is that I can't seem to get any feedback on my work. Inevitably there are corrections that need to be made, but I don't get them unless I go to the uttermost to elicit the response from him. Then it is delivered in a way that conveys a kind of "you should have known what I wanted" attitude. It's hard to know what someone wants when they hardly ever communicate with you. Also, it is difficult getting research feedback from him but in the rare case I do get feedback, it's about formatting, not the meat and potatoes. This video helped, thank you.

Amazing video ! You are great !

I really love your videos. I remember you giving me some advise as a first year PhD student and now I am in my "ABD" stage of my program. I thank God for my supervisor because at first communication was like at zero. I wanted to hurry up and get it done BUT what I did not know is there is a process that must take place i.e. paperwork, committee meetings, etc.

that was so great.... thank you, so much love from Kenya

You are an amazing Academic and a good supervisor and mentor to your students. We need more academics like you in faculties.

I really love your videos!! Thank you!

That Yoko Ono reference made my day. I love these vlogs, can't wait to start a PhD!

Best video ever! Help me and my supervisor already!

I'm still early into my uni career but I hope to go further into academia and probably a PhD, and these videos have been very informative (even if I am perhaps jumping the gun a little watching them now lol). Thank you!

Great video / lessons for post grads. Some seem so obvious that its surprising that candidates are still guilty of these behaviours.

Great insight! I wish a 3-year Ph.D. was possible in Biochem! :-)

not planning to take PhD but really enjoy your vlog!

you are a complete gift from God

you are an absolute saint! Amazing work! Thank you for your dedication.

love your videos..

She is absolutely Marvelous ❤️

I love this Supervisor advice.

Great advice for new students. It's really important that we should talk more about works and ideas instead of talking more about other stuff.

The Catherine Tate impression @ 14:51 had me in stitches.

thanks alot Tara, yo dearly loved,

Thank you, Tara, your valuable time and information are really appreciated. a social study master student.

This is so good and so funny

I feel like I'm motivated and my supervisor wants to hold me hostage to fulfill her agenda. She never wants me to graduate this is a pattern with most of her students they stay in the program way way wayyy longer than other students.

On 2 minutes , what an engaging video ,

Thank you for your VDO Tara. :)

Thank you so much

Very helpful, thank you

Thanks for letting everyone know

OMG that student from hell was a psychopath :-0 I would have called the police. You were a saint to ensure that the student completed her studies successfully. Sheesh.

As a Ph.D. candidate, I have been motived to move on, these videos are super educative. Thank you, Prof Tara, may God bless you always.

Dear Prof Tara, thank you for your videos. But I have a question, does your advice apply to PhD students in computer science and engineering field? Because it seems that those fields would not be as concerned in writing of the thesis. Would that be correct?

One reason for 4 happens when an older, much less ict savvy, student, emails in draft after draft and is not told, and is too snowed under and ignorant to modern assessment procedures, to realize, (despite struggling through difficult ict supplementary classes),that the feedback she wanted WAS being given, but in electronic form, added to the documents she'd emailed in (i.e. they were actually interactive documents). She'd come out of monthly meetings feeling more distraught because the oral comment amounted to nothing much except negative criticism of the student's application or some such. That seemed to hint that she must, yet again change the approach to the phenomenon . And neither of the experts ever asked WHY she seemed not to be responding to their feed back. Feedback???? So, since she'd read over 1500 texts in that year, seen the real problem she needed to address, worked out a how, the best theorists, the ethics involved.and also realised it was not going to lead anywhere in nursing that hadn't already been partially accounted for, as far as health care went. it all came unstuck, because the key idea building got lost somewhere, over time. I think a better approach might have been to open the first marked draft chapter on the screen and go through it with the student at least that first time, then told her where to find it on her computer! So 4 might also mean an older, less tech savvy student was lost through ICT! How about COMS adds an ICT component and the 2 are offered as an option as a summer school pre-commencement. Cathy J.

Hi, Tara. Thanks for all of your beautiful videos. I have some problems. Can u please help me. 1. I am already 1 year and a half in my Phd but I haven't produced a word and yet not even decided my research topic. 2. I think that I am that silence type of student. In the start my supervisor and a senior student try to setup the weekly meeting sessions but i escaped that because I was very fearful , hence, after sometime they left me at my own. So, when ever i feel like i will go and contact them. slowly it turned into one time a month and right now I am procrastinating and seldom sees them. 3. It is important to note that when i came to this university 3.5 years ago for my masters program. I was very active and motivated (although I was an average student by every standard) and hence my supervisor suggested me to do a Phd and I started it. Slowly I lost all my zeal and inspiration and right now I am lost. I read and watch all sort of philosophical things on internet and it feels to me that they are more important meanwhile I also learnt a foreign language with quite an accuracy. Is there any way, I can make a come back. I don't know what to do anymore. Please, help. Thanks

Brilliant thank you

you sure got my attention already in the 1st 5 secs..

4:29 three one-hour meetings a day? Gosh! :)

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Can you make a vedio on the role of Research Advisory Committee. My Supervisor finalised the work but these people are creating a lot of hurdles.

thank u

My supervisor never cared for any of his PhD students....mere SADIST!!!!!!

Just curious. Why do supervisors care about students ? Will students' success or fail influence their reputation or income or anything? Thank you for making theses videos. I like your videos very much. Try to coach up all of them.

I had a conversation with my supervisor at the beginning that i didnt want to code, and he said he had a project that satifies that, then a month before the deadline he said it would be difficult without coding, why would he put me in this situation? It was masters dissertation.

Selection of a supervisor - a chain of your Ph.D is as strong as its weakest choice of supervisor - is the pivotal cog in making-believe that your journey is going to be effortless. Truth is not spoken, told or exposed but worn daily without any fail... hmmm

I'm wondering how someone that bad (30,000 words of drivel) even passes the comprehensive exams. I mean, we're talking about people who are at the dissertation drafting stage. How do they even get that far?

I don't understand how someone can shout at their supervisor... what?!?!?

Supervisor is not a god , we dont have to make a supervisor happy it's the work that is important not the drama

ok i will come to your office ...

hahaha. Yoko Ono Students..ROFL

Send them trillions of msn messages

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