Traditional PhD supervision ‘under threat’ from commercial thinking

Research supervision is an increasingly important professional role of faculty members. There is now a growing body of research that explores factors which underpin good supervisory practice. Despite the progress in this area, there is scarcity of existing literature about the readiness of academic faculty who are involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate research supervision. One of the main obstacles in not being able to understand these issues is the lack of appropriate tools to measure research supervision skills. The aim is to develop a valid and reliable scale to explore research supervision practices among health science faculty members, identify factors affecting the supervisory process and assess research supervisor’s readiness/preparedness towards guiding students’ research projects.