Your supervisor can be the most valuable resource you have during your PhD. A mentor and advisor that helps to manage your project and keep you on track, and a sounding board for your new ideas and thoughts. Knowing how to communicate and foster this relationship is crucial for your research to develop. In this session we will discuss common difficulties second language speakers might face when conversing with their supervisors. The session offers a supportive and safe environment for challenges to be shared. We will also strategically plan ways to navigate such challenges with the aim to improve the communication with your supervisor.

A PhD is challenging. Doing it in another language makes it more so. The ‘PhD in a second language’ series is designed to support you with many aspects of the process. We cover writing and speaking; reading and presenting. We discuss how we network and create connections. We also discuss the vagaries of undertaking research in the UK; the words that mean something entirely different and trip us up every time. The sessions are run by a Warwick PhD alumni and lecturer who still occasionally struggles to find the correct English word.