Mental health in academia - Luca Viganò 1/2 PODCAST

18/11/2022 22 min Temporada 2 Episodio 1

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Episode Synopsis

Today's guest is Luca Viganò, Professor in Cybersecurity at King's College London and we talk about MENTORSHIP. Besides being a professor in cybersecurity, he is an experienced supervisor as well as a former coordinator of a PhD school. In the first part of our converation, Luca outlines what the job of a supervisor is and what it is reasonable to expect from a supervisor. He shares some of the common complaints that he has received from PhD students when he was serving as the director of a PhD school. In the second part of this conversation, we will talk about the strategies that may be adopted to improve a critical situation between mentor and mentee, about whether a mandatory training for supervisors may be helpful, and finally whether we should expect that PhD supervisor be able to support their students in personal, emotional struggles. See you again in the second part of this episode of the ReMO podcast with Luca Viganò.