The HDR Supervisor of the Month award recognises, celebrates and shares good supervisory practice, and is also open to professional staff who support HDR candidates.

The June Supervisor of the Month Award was given to Associate Professor Yujie Zhu (Centre for Heritage & Museum Studies - ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences). You can read more about his reflections on his supervisory practice, here. 

Yujie's supervisory approach:
"For me, HDR supervision is not only about guiding a candidate to complete a thesis. It is about helping them become independent, ethical and imaginative thinkers who can ask better questions in a changing world. In heritage and museum studies, students often work with difficult histories, cultural differences, memory, identity, Indigenous knowledge, and questions of justice. These are not only academic topics; they are public questions about how societies remember, repair, and imagine their futures. I see my role as helping candidates develop the confidence to sit with complexity, think critically about evidence and values, and understand why their research matters beyond the university.”

Make your Supervisor of the Month nomination here.