Hi Guys,

Thank you so much for all your advice - it's all a bit interesting as my primary supervisor who I was taking as the lead person seems to have been given me some dodgy advice, I think I'm just going to have to adjust my views of the team a bit to figure out who to rely on for what area of my PhD for advice.

Thank you all for your advice, I will definitely bear that all in mind for dealing with my panel and making decisions.

All the best :-)

Hi All,
I started a PhD as an international student in November and have now come to the point of solidifying my supervisor panel. I'm not quite sure what I'm doing, but my primary supervisor has only just mentioned to me that the post-doc I am working with is going to be a supervisor as well. I have my primary supervisor at my university, one from another uni that's got the main funding as part of a larger project and another that is part of a conservation organisation that we will be working closely with. So far I've have been bounced around a lot and not really managed to get decent answers on what exactly they are imagining my project consisting of in the grand scheme of the larger project. As a result I'm a bit reluctant to have too many people on my panel as it's been bad enough just trying to work with 3 and not getting anywhere. 3 is the minimum but I wondered if anyone currently doing a PhD could give me any advice on the pros and cons of the number of supervisors they have. Unfortunately my supervisors don't have the best of relationships so this is also a concern.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks