With love from a dissertation supervisor: Advice for the journey

We are delighted to release this open book. It has been co-authored by four scholars in the School of Education at the University of Leeds to support master’s students working on their dissertations. 

What you will read in this book is based on the scholars’ experiences supporting students as supervisors and what they have observed and learnt individually and collectively over the years in relation to dissertation supervision. 

The book is written in a conversational style to connect directly with those reading and using it as a resource during their dissertation journey. 

While this book has been written with students in education in mind, the book may also be useful for students in a range of disciplines and professional areas, also where final projects may be used instead of dissertations. 

Before finalising the book, we invited students and recent graduates to review it and are grateful for their input. We have taken their valuable feedback on board to finalise the book.

This book could be used by dissertation students and supervisors alike. Supervisors may also wish to use numbered pages 1-30 as a flashcard set in seminars when preparing students for working on their dissertation. It could also form the basis of a board game and other playful workshop activities to support students.

Check out the licence to identify how you can use, repurpose and build on it. 

If you would like to get in touch with the team please contact c.nerantzi @ leeds.ac.uk (without the spaces).

Chrissi, Delyth, Simon and Lou