PhD Student Hanxin (TU Delft) Issue | Our take as Researchers
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- Check us out in this brain-rot and yapping low budget podcast highlighting the current controversy involving PhD student in TU Delft. Anyone who is currently enrolled as a researcher can relate to Hanxin's case. We just pray that no PhD student has to go through it.
Personally I blame both Hanxin and his advisor. His advisor failed her task of advising when she became an obstacle rather than a facilitator. And Hanxin failed by taking a fight stance instead of a problem-solving one.
I still believe though that its hard to make a judgment either way because we have an unreliable narrator so it's hard to make heads or tails of the facts.
Did not watch past the first five minutes. The guy in the grey shirt, his premise is misplaced. You probably start a PhD because you are dedicated to research topic/question and are offered a place to pursue that question with someone who can guide you on the way. Others things (smartness, trust, expectation) are all contextual and only emerge over time.
Personally, I had a great PhD supervisor. But I do know people who had utterly abusive and unprofessional supervisors. That shouldn’t be acceptable. But time and again, students have to suffer while abusive supervisors are let go, without any penalisation or course correction for unprofessional and unethical behaviour.
I personally think your premise is misplaced. Realistically, you hardly get to work on the topic you are interested in, unless you join a well established research group who are working on something which you are passionate about, which is roughly 20-25% of the cases. In most of the scenarious, generally students have to fully tarnsform or partially alter their research interest based on supervisor’s area. A PhD doesnt make you an expert in your field, it just gives you credentials to understand how research works, how can you carry it out or how can you supervise a research project.
@hdrasool Well, to generalize it with a broader brush and then basing the entire point of view on that isn't a very smart approach. The PhDs where the funding is provided to the supervisor for his research are only a way to get a funded PhD, you can also get your funding externally or through industries. So, yeah partially its understandable if the research topic is proposed by the supervisor and funding comes through him, for a supervisor for then to dictate but in case of Hanxin, his supervisor used his research of the first two papers to get the citations that was exploitation and terminating a Phd when a student already has 4 class 1 published papers is non sense. Doesnt matter where is he going his Phd. And there is a huge difference between the research conducted for a Masters thesis and a Phd thesis, so please don't put them in the same bracket.
@@jkinbucTBH i feel for Hanxin and i really think he deserved a PhD (according to me). But the problem is no one is talking from supervisor’s perspective. I have been in both shoes and trust me from supervisor’s perspective, he is lowkey a nightmare. The thing
people need to really ponder over if these supervisors are inherently evil or there was some serious blunders and resistance from the student’s side. And i personally feel no one is instrinctly evil unless somone is really pushed off at the edge.
I didn’t agree with the grey shirt’s points of view on PhD evaluations. Probably because you are not getting a PhD degree. Of course, it is about fulfilling requirements of professors and programs, however it is also opposite sides should be heard. For example, my PhD advisor asked me what I wanna become so he gives me a support to whatever I wanna become. So here Han-Xin even can publish his papers independently there is no point of keeping him to be only a ‘PhD candidate’. Even here in US, I know PhD students graduate without publications but they wanna go into industry and they don’t wanna wait for their papers to be published before going to industry. Here it is clearly power abuse from these professors and I completely dislike the points that you guys tried to make. Please don’t draw attention on the wrong things and please support the victim. cuz I think we have enough abuse in Academia and that keeps people away from wanting to contribute to science. I don’t know whether you guys have ever got abused in academic environments to be able to understand this matter!!!
‘The grey shirt’ guy has been through real shid that he preferred not to talk about in this video because he is waiting for his final viva. We just concluded in the video, you need two hands to clap. I hope you really understand that; A supervisor has a lot of things to do, teach UG / PG courses, clerical stuff, supervise research group while PhD students just have to do one thing; follow what sv says and satisfy him. So sv doesn’t have to change his attitude but students need to be super flexible. At the same time i acknowledge, some supervisors do abuse their power (as in case of my grey shirt friend) and it needs to be voiced out. We are just saying student’s attitude matters too towards their conduct with supervisors.
@hdrasoolI also wanna say is that there was something really wrong when you guys discussed that he published two papers without his supervisors. If you watched his video at the beginning he clarified that he self-funded for 2 years, there is correct that he didn’t include his supervisors. They are clearly abusers here and I have been witnessing many talented PhD students got abused like this, they ended up losing their trust to continue their academic career. So if you guys support victims to keep silence, how can the society and science change for better.
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