Additional Scenarios for The Supervisor-Trainee Relationship

Working Relationships in the Lab

If your focus is Working Relationships in the Lab, aspects of the relationship between two or more colleagues in a research lab is the topic of the following scenarios.

• Cooperation and Competition between two Thesis Students
• Who Owns the Record? Whose Project Is It?
• Whose Work Is It?
• How do projects get into hopeless difficulty, and what should be done?
• What Is Cheating?
• Who Decides When a Student Is Done?
• Distrust among Members of a Lab
• Expectations of Advisory Committees
• Self-Deception
• Conflicting Priorities and Life Goals among Members of a Lab

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Authorship and Data

Below are scenarios from other modules that also raise issues of the supervisor-trainee relationship.

• Changing the Procedure
• Struggle Over Data
• A Lie or Just "a Way of Speaking?"
• Weighing Contributions to an Article
• What About My Contribution?
• When May a Student Publish?
• Credit and Collaboration in a Molecular Biology Lab
• Who is Where on the Author List?
• A Fruitless Thesis
• Doubts About Published Results
• Supervisor's Request for Authorship Recognition