{"id":1085,"date":"2015-03-23T20:16:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T00:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/socanth\/?page_id=1085"},"modified":"2025-07-11T08:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:52:46","slug":"thesis-supervision","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/student-life\/graduate\/thesis-supervision\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis Supervision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Thesis Supervision\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

The following table indicates which types of professors, instructors, and adjunct faculty are eligible to serve as supervisors, co-supervisors, and committee members for M.A. and Ph.D. student theses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note to Ph.D. students:<\/strong> Professors can act as sole supervisors of Ph.D. theses only if they have tenure. Professors without tenure can co-supervise with a tenured faculty member, or serve as committee members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please consult the Graduate Administrator<\/a> if you have questions about supervisory status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate Supervision Status<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Carleton Faculty
*Supervision status granted automatically based on rank<\/em><\/th>		Master’s Level<\/th>Doctoral Level<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Assistant Professor without a PhD
(term appointment)<\/td>		Yes<\/td>Advisory Committee only<\/td><\/tr>
Assistant Professor without a PhD
\n(preliminary appointment)<\/td>		Yes<\/td>Advisory Committee only<\/td><\/tr>
Assistant Professor with a PhD
\n(term appointment)<\/td>		Yes<\/td>May co-supervise<\/td><\/tr>
Assistant Professor with a PhD
\n(preliminary appointment)<\/td>		Yes<\/td>May co-supervise<\/td><\/tr>
Tenured Assistant Professor without a PhD<\/td>Yes<\/td>Advisory Committee only<\/td><\/tr>
Tenured Assistant Professor with a PhD<\/td>Yes<\/td>Yes<\/td><\/tr>
Associate Professor without a PhD<\/td>Yes<\/td>Advisory Committee only<\/td><\/tr>
Associate Professor with a PhD<\/td>Yes<\/td>Yes<\/td><\/tr>
Full Professor<\/td>Yes<\/td>Yes<\/td><\/tr>
Lecturer<\/td>Yes<\/td>Advisory Committee only<\/td><\/tr>
Instructor I, II, or III<\/td>No\u2020<\/td>No<\/td><\/tr>
\u2020 Except with express permission from line Dean<\/em><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Master\u2019s Level<\/strong><\/td>Doctoral Level<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Faculty<\/strong> and<\/strong> Honourary Ranks at other universities<\/strong> who <\/strong>are<\/strong> involved with Joint Institutes
\n<\/strong>(The University of Ottawa or Trent University)<\/td>		May co-supervise if has supervisory
\nprivileges at home institution<\/td>		May co-supervise if has supervisory privileges at home institution<\/td><\/tr>
Honourary<\/strong> Ranks

– Must apply for graduate supervision status through Graduate Studies<\/strong><\/td>		Master\u2019s Level<\/strong><\/td> Ph.D. Level<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Adjunct Professor<\/td>May* co-supervise<\/td>Advisory Committee only<\/td><\/tr>
Adjunct Research Professor<\/td>May* co-supervise<\/td>May* co-supervise<\/td><\/tr>
Professor Emeritus<\/td>May* co-supervise<\/td>May* co-supervise<\/td><\/tr>
Distinguished Research Professor<\/td>May* supervise<\/td>May* supervise<\/td><\/tr>
* with<\/em> the permission of Graduate Studies<\/em><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For all categories, members may only (co)supervise graduate students in the academic program(s) for which they have been formally granted supervisory privileges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following table indicates which types of professors, instructors, and adjunct faculty are eligible to serve as supervisors, co-supervisors, and committee members for M.A. and Ph.D. student theses. Note to Ph.D. students: Professors can act as sole supervisors of Ph.D. theses only if they have tenure. Professors without tenure can co-supervise with a tenured faculty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":21494,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-1085","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32509,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1085\/revisions\/32509"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}