Abstract
ABSTRACT Although there has been considerable post hoc research on student views of supervisors, there is little on how candidate expectations are constituted at or close to the point of commencement. This study reads students’ commentary about the ‘ideal supervisor’ at the point of institutional induction to examine commencing candidate expectations, concluding that student discourse reflects historical, guild notions of the supervisor as ‘master’, and institutional messaging about the primary responsibility of the supervisor for positive research degree outcomes. The ‘ideal’ supervisor imagined by commencing candidates possesses highly esteemed character virtues and research mastery such that they can meet all needs and guarantee a successful outcome and a positive candidate experience. The paper concludes that institutional representations of the supervisor role need to change to re-situate supervision within wider networks of engagement and support and this needs to be reflected in the design of institutional orientation.
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