Hi, I just wondered if anyone else had any experience with a horrible supervisor and can offer me some advice? I'm now in my third year, and although I can kind of see the end in sight, in many ways it still seems so far away. My supervisor is controlling, a bully, aggressive and knows little about my area of research. What makes it worse is the fact that I only have her as a supervisor, there no-one else to advise me at all. She pushes me to do things that I don't agree with, and I find it hard to take her advice as my work is predominantly social science-based, and she is not a social scientist in any way. I've spoken to the head of my school about it, but he's a bit of a pushover and because I don't want to complain about her formally, they're unwilling to help me in any way. Sometimes, I really just feel like giving up. I'm not even sure if my research is good enough for a PhD as I have no guidance from a social science research perspective. I can't believe the uni would allow students to end up in this situation, but it appears as though they do. You really are on your own when doing a PhD!